Millers fall hard to Carmel in White River Rivalry

In every sport, the Carmel-Noblesville rivalry is a thick, fully competitive battle. In baseball, it's no different.

The past two seasons, the Greyhounds and Millers have battled it out to the tune of a couple 1-run ballgames. Last season, Carmel won 7-6 at Hartman Field on a Parker Massman walk-off 3-run home run. In 2014, Carmel scored on a passed ball in the top of the 7th at The Dunk to edge the Noblesville, 5-4. That loss for the Millers in 2014 was part of the mid-season motivation that helped Keever's squad later to win their final 9 games of the season, earning themselves the Class 4A State Championship.

The storied history of this great baseball rivalry reaches as far back as it can in the rich traditions of each program. The problem is that Noblesville hasn't been able to grab a win in the series in quite a few years.

Carmel wins White River Rivalry, scoring early and often
Carmel 11, 4A #7 Noblesville 1 (5 inn.) - at The Dunk, Noblesville (Sat. April 23, 2016)
Greyhounds     0     5     2     1     3     -     11     14     3
Millers              0     1     0     0     0     -      1       3     3

Sophomore Tyler Owens got another crack at starting for the Millers and unfortunately, it didn't pan out even close to what he hoped it would.

Because Noblesville would be finishing the continuation of their series finale with Zionsville on Monday, a non-conference game like this against Carmel would likely be a few arms getting work in, saving Conway and Marowski for Zionsville and the rest of the week to get rested.

Owens walked the DH J.C. Hanley to start the 2nd. Jack Van Remortal and Trent Terwilliger both singled to load the bases with no outs. Two hitters later with one down, Jarrod Moon doubled to left, scoring both Hanley and Van Remortal for an early 2-0 Carmel edge.

The Greyhounds kept at it as Sam Berry laced a two-run single into center and then scored the fifth run of the 2nd inning on a Pete Lamagna double to put Carmel up 5-0.

Two quick outs spelled offensive trouble for the Millers. They wouldn't go away quietly in the 2nd. Jackson Thurman drilled a two-out double and eventually scored Noblesville's lone run on an RBI-single from Austin Shirley that scored Thurman.

The visitors wanted to make it known that they weren't going away.

Rhett Wintner took a 1-0 pitch to the fence in right center for a leadoff triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Hanley for a 6-0 Carmel lead. Van Remortal got all of a Reese Sharp pitch and sent it sailing over the fence for a solo home run and extend the Greyhound margin to a touchdown at 7-0.

With Sharp getting the ball hit every which way off of him, he was pulled for sophomore Kade Gorman in the 4th after giving up two consecutive doubles to Lamagna and Wintner, respectively, scoring Lamagna on Wintner's two-bagger to center.

Terwilliger, catcher Colin Donahue and Berry would all three be able to score in the top of the 5th to really seal this victory for Carmel, leaving their mark on the Millers, stunning the hosts 11-1 in 5 innings of play.