Baseball Completes Sweep with Win at Queens Sunday

Sunday, March 1

Charlotte, N.C.

12:00 p.m.

Army West Point

5-4

Queens

4-7

Army

Queens

Photo by: SGT Nathan Sturgis

Baseball Completes Sweep with Win at Queens Sunday

March 01, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Army West Point baseball took the brooms out of its back pocket on Sunday afternoon, with a 5-2 win at the Queens Royals in Charlotte to complete a three-game weekend sweep.

The victory at The Stick Williams Dream Fields puts the Black Knights in the win column for the fifth time in six games and above .500 on the season, at 5-4 overall.

The Black Knights allowed just seven runs across the series, winning their first two games of the set 3-2 and 4-3 respectively.

Starting pitcher Trey Ates pitched six innings, striking out three while walking just one and allowing one earned run. It was Ates' longest career start as he tied his career-high in innings pitched and earned the win Sunday.

Mark Abell came out of the bullpen for the Black Knights and recorded seven outs; three by strikeouts. Allowing no runs and just three hits, he passed the ball to Josiah Overbeek in the ninth, who retired the final two Royals' batters and picked up the save.

For the third consecutive day, Queens struck first. An dropped fielder's choice popup allowed a pair of runners to advance, and proceeded a Royal RBI groundout in the bottom of the second to make it 1-0 in favor of the home team, but Army responded the next inning with a Chris Barr RBI single and an RBI groundout from David Dubrule to put the Black Knights ahead 2-1.

The Royals made it 2-2 in the fourth off a two-out double, but Carter Hewitt gave Army its lead back in the sixth with a two-out RBI of his own to score William Parker and make it 3-2.

Army tacked on another pair of runs in the top of the ninth, with a Thomas Schreck squeeze bunt and another two-out RBI single from Barr to make it 5-2.

Queens would poke a pair of base hits in the bottom of the ninth to send the tying run to the plate, but its last two batters were retired in succession to end the game.

By the Numbers

2-for-4: Schreck was 2-for-4 with an RBI on Sunday.

2-for-5: After being held without a hit on Friday and Saturday, Barr was 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs on Sunday.

2: Overbeek drew of a pair of walks at the plate in the win.

1: Army's pitching allowed just one walk Sunday, a season-best for the unit.

0: The Black Knights' bullpen combined for nine innings of work over the series and allowed zero runs.

Black Knight Notes

The win cliched Army's first three-game sweep since defeating Lafayette in three games April 19-20 a season ago.

Army's sweep was its first of at least three games on the road since beating Navy three times on April 22-23, 2023.

The series-game sweep was also the Black Knights' first of three or more games over a non-conference opponent since a three-game sweep over UMass on March 14-15, 2015.

Ates' six innings pitched Sunday tied his career-high in innings pitched set on May 11 at Navy a season ago, with that lengthy scoreless bullpen appearance propelling Army to a series win in Annapolis to advance to the Patriot League Championship Series.

Overbeek's pitching appearance Sunday was his second of the series after recording an eight-out save in Friday night's series opener. He also started in the batting order of all three contests at Queens.

Schreck's squeeze bunt was Army's first of the season after cashing in on two squeezes a season ago.

Next Up

Army is back in action next weekend for a three-game series at VCU on March 6-8.

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