Baseball Clinches Road Series Sweet at Lafayette Sunday

Sunday, March 22

Easton, Pa.

12:00 p.m.

Army West Point

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Lafayette

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Army West Point

Lafayette

Photo by: Stephen Blue, Sidelines Media

Baseball Clinches Road Series Sweet at Lafayette Sunday

March 22, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

EASTON, Pa. – Army West Point baseball finished its weekend in style on Sunday, defeating the Lafayette Leopards 10-5 and securing a three-game series sweep over its Patriot League foe at Kamine Stadium.

The Black Knights (11-10, 4-2) move back above .500 overall for the second time this year, and have won four consecutive games as well as five of its past six.

For Army, five-run fifth and eighth innings were the answer to the test, scoring at least 10 runs in four straight games.

Sunday's contest took the form of a pitching dual until the top of the fifth however, with starting pitcher Trey Ates keeping the Leopards off the board in each of his four innings pitched. He escaped a first inning jam by stranding a pair of runners in scoring position, before settling in to record a perfect third frame.

Robbie Penswick pitched 3.2 innings in relief and moved to 2-4 with the win, before passing the ball to Josiah Overbeek who recorded the final four outs.

Army's five-run flurry in the fifth came after outs in the inning's first two at bats. But after a fielding error kept the inning alive, Chris Barr drove in the first runs of the game before coming around to cross the plate himself on an E2 off the bat of Thomas Schreck. Carter Hewitt joined the RBI party on the next at bat to make it 5-0.

In the eighth inning, with Army holding into a 5-1 lead, RBI singles from Barr and Addison Ainsworth made it 7-1, before three more runs came around on doubles from Parker and Hewitt for the Black Knights to extend their cushion to nine runs.

Army's bullpen kept the Leopards at bay throughout the contest, with Penswick stranding the bases loaded in the sixth on a two-out, full count strikeout. Then in the seventh, the junior reliever worked around a trio of baserunners to limit the damage to just one run.

Lafayette plated four in the bottom of the ninth, including three on a three-run home run, but would run out of outs on the ensuing at bat.

By the Numbers

6: Army used just six innings of relief pitching across the three-game series, and just three total pitchers from the bullpen.

13: Army's pitchers recorded 13 combined strikeouts Sunday, the most in a single game this year.

6: Ates' six strikeouts were a season-high and tied his career-high set vs. Fordham on March 15, 2025.

5: Penswick's five strikeouts were a season-high and tied his career-high set vs. Rider on May 2, 2025.

3-for-5: Parker was 3-fof-5 Sunday with two RBIs.

2: Ainsworth, Barr and Hewitt each recorded two base hits.

Black Knight Notes

Head coach Chris Tracz utilized the same lineup and batting order for the third time in as many games this series.

Barr moved into fifth in program history in career stolen bases, swiping his 60th and 61st career bag on Sunday.

The Black Knights improved to 7-1 in 2026 when scoring six or more runs.

Overbeek has reached base in all 19 games he's played this year.

Army sent 10 batters to the plate in the fifth and nine in the eighth, the fifth and sixth instances of all nine batters coming to the plate in an inning.

The Black Knights are 2-0 this season when playing for a series sweep (not counting three-game weekends against different teams).

Army has won nine straight over Lafayette dating back to the 2024 regular season finale.

Next Up

Army returns home to face St. Peter's at 3:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Afterwords, the Black Knights will look ahead to a three-game series next weekend at home vs. Navy as part of the Star Series presented by USAA.

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