The Grantsville American Legion team scored 20 runs on 18 hits in the third inning of the second game against Roy Monday evening at Grantsville.

Even in the best of dreams, hitting is never that good.

Grantsville’s bats were hot enough for a 12-4 victory through six innings at the plate in the first game, but those bats ignited by the time the third inning of the second game rolled around. Roy never did put out the fire, walking off the field down 21-6 with still one out to go in the bottom of the third.

Grantsville trailed 6-1 heading into the bottom of the third when Chris Buckner started things off with a double, then a single from Drew Sutton, a single from Lincoln Kelley, a single from Tyson Hutchins, a double from Andrew Nelson, a double from Dalen Erickson, a walk to Connor Turner, Kelby Landon reached base on an error, a double from Skyler Cloward, a single from Buckner again, another single from Kelley, another single from Hutchins, a bunt single by Nelson, a three-run home run by Erickson, a single by Turner, a walk to Landon, a double by Bucker for his third hit of the inning, a single by Sutton for his second hit of the inning, a double by Kelley for his third hit of the inning and finally a three-run home run by Hutchins for his third hit of the inning.

Hutchins’ game-ending blast went over the fence, but hit a fence behind the fence and bounced back into the ballpark which caused some confusion on the field. Hutchins rounded second base while the umpires were trying to sort out what had happened. Hutchins was signaling a home run and then the Roy shortstop tried to tag Hutchins near his head with the ball which had been relayed back to the infield. Hutchins protected himself with his forearm and then the shortstop dropped to the ground as if he were injured. Roy coaches attended to their injured player and then motioned to all their players to come in to the dugout with only two outs in bottom of the third.

It is possible the umpires also wanted to stop the game at that point because of the lopsided score and at least one Roy player seemed ready to fight after his teammate dropped to the infield.

The Cowboys can only hope their hot hitting continues in the American Legion State Tournament. Grantsville plays Saturday at 8 p.m. against Helper in the tournament held in Kearns near the Olympic Oval.

“We haven’t had everybody together, but we had most of our players here today,” said Grantsville coach Loren Anderson after the sweep.

The top four in the batting lineup, Kelley, Hutchins, Nelson and Erickson, were particularly in the groove in the first game. They all had hits in the first inning and Grantsville led 3-0 after one inning with Kelley, Hutchins and Nelson all scoring.

Cloward belted a solo home run to left-center in the second inning, and with two outs and two on base, Nelson smacked a three-run home run to give Grantsville a 7-1 advantage after two complete innings.

Roy rallied for three in the third to cut the lead to 7-4, then Cloward scored on a single by Kelley to push the lead to 8-4 after three complete.

Turner scored a run on a double by Cloward in the fourth to make it 9-4 and Kelley continued his torrid hitting with a double in the fifth. The speedster then came around to score Grantsville’s 10th run on a sacrifice fly. Grantsville scored two more in the sixth to win the first game 12-4.

Erickson picked up the victory on the mound pitching a complete seven innings.

Landon Hammond started on the mound in the second game for the Cowboys and picked up the win pitching three complete innings. Roy scored four runs in the first inning aided by a costly error from the Cowboys.

Kelley singled to start things off for the Cowboys in the second game and went to third on a pair of wild pitches. He scooted home on a sacrifice fly by Nelson to cut into the Roy lead at 4-1. Roy increased its lead to 5-1 after two innings then 6-1 with a run in the top of the third.

Then in the bottom of the third Grantsville’s batters went berserk to finish off a shell-shocked Roy team and complete the sweep.

Mark Watson: mwatson@tooeletranscript.com