Jun 17, 2011 By Adam Brewer, For The Greene County Messenger 3 min read

CARMICHAELS — Farmington pounded out 16 hits and played solid defense all evening long, as it defeated Carmichaels 12-5 in Fayette American Legion Baseball action Wednesday night at Wana B. Park.

?Prior to the contest, the teams completed a game that was started last Saturday, and Carmichaels came away with a 27-17 win in the offensive marathon.

The clubs played two-plus innings of that game on Wednesday, and the highlight was a grand slam by Kody Decker in a six-run ninth for Carmichaels.

In the regular game, Farmington took the early lead when Blaine Shrum tripled in Cody Jackson. The next batter was Ethan Clipp, and he launched a two-run homer to give the visitors a 3-0 edge.

Anthony Sparks started the third for Farmington with a bunt and crossed home plate when the Carmichaels’ catcher overthrew first base and the ball rolled all the way to the fence. After the play Carmichaels’ coach Rick Grim argued that the ball hit Sparks, and was thrown out of the game.

Farmington added another run on a Carmichaels’ error to go up 5-0.

In the bottom of the fourth, Carmichaels scored a run off of a Nick Clarke hit that scored Seth Krall.

Clipp added a sacrifice fly for Farmington in the top of the fifth, but Carmichaels responded with a Chris Poppernack sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to 6-2.

Jackson had a RBI bunt squeeze in the sixth to give Farmington their seventh run of the game, but once again, Carmichaels answered with a run via a RBI base knock by Anthonie Farrar.

Timmy Richel pitched a superb game for the visitors and helped his own cause with an RBI single in the seventh. Richel pitched the whole game and was successful against Carmichaels, throwing strikes and walking only one batter.

“Tim kept the ball low and threw a lot of strikes,” Farmington skipper Lloyd Jackson said.

Clipp added some insurance runs in the eighth for Farmington with a two-run double. Carmichaels countered that with two runs, one off a hit by Tommy Shoaf.

In the top of the ninth, Farmington tallied its final two runs courtesy of an RBI double by Ronnie Nara and single Sparks.

Decker pitched the full nine innings for Carmichaels, striking out six batters.

“We have been playing pretty good so far this season, but in that second game, those errors caught up with us,” Grim said. “You can’t give any team extra outs, and that hurt us today. We were unlucky at the plate too; we had some hard line drives, but they were right at guys.”