UAB Baseball will conclude its five-game homestand on Tuesday, March 31, as the Blazers host North Alabama at Young Memorial Field in Birmingham. The team is aiming for a perfect record during this stretch after defeating the Lions earlier in the season.
The matchup holds significance as UAB seeks to continue its strong performance at home, where they have won 12 of their last 13 games and currently hold a 15-4 record at Young Memorial Field. A victory would mark only the sixth time in school history that UAB has achieved a 16-4 home record, tying for second best all-time.
Tuesday’s game is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start and will be broadcast on ESPN+, with Curt Bloom providing play-by-play commentary. The probable starters are Justin Hicks, a sophomore right-handed pitcher for UAB with an 0-1 record and an earned run average of 8.53, and Hunter Bell, a senior right-hander making his first appearance of the season for North Alabama.
Since their previous meeting in February—when UAB won decisively, 15-3—the Lions have posted a road record of just two wins against nine losses. Jackson Westmoreland leads North Alabama with a .365 batting average while Petey Kraska has tallied the most hits on the team at thirty-one.
For UAB, Max Price enters Tuesday’s contest riding a six-game hitting streak after hitting his second walk-off home run of the season to secure Sunday’s sweep over Tulane. Teammates Wesley Helms and Kevin Hall Jr. each bring five-game hit streaks into this matchup; Helms also boasts an active fifteen-game on-base streak. Offensively, UAB has been productive at home this year—hitting forty-two out of forty-six total home runs at Young Memorial Field and averaging more than nine runs per game there.
Head Coach Casey Dunn stands one win away from reaching his six hundred fiftieth career victory on-field.
