Greene County’s softball team takes a 17-5 record into the South Hamilton tournament today after a non-conference win in Jefferson on Friday night vs. Ogden by a final of 11-6. The game featured plenty of offense as the teams combined for 28 hits, 18 by the Rams. The game was scoreless until Greene County scored four runs in the third inning. They added four in the fifth and three more in the sixth. The Bulldogs had a run in the fourth, three in the sixth and two in the seventh. Sophomore Marissa Promes was the winning pitcher and junior Jordan Poock took the loss.

Sophomore Emily Christensen continued her hot hand at the plate with two doubles and a single for the Rams. Christensen has 11 hits in her last four games including five for extra bases. Sophomore Tressa Rasmussen and seniors Jennifer Kennedy and Mady Adamson each had three singles, and sophomores Kayla Mobley and Hannah Onken each singled twice. Kennedy had five runs batted in and Mobley batted in two runs. Adamson, Christensen, Promes, and freshman Carleigh Paup each had one RBI.

Senior Maddie Diggs for Ogden had a two-run homer in the sixth and a run scoring triple in the seventh inning. Sophomore Kylie Westberg singled three times and eighth grader Kami Wheelock had two base hits. Senior Ashlee Ellsworth and sophomore Abbey Gustafson both doubled.

Greene County meets Prairie Valley (Gowrie) in Stanhope at 9 a.m. today, then plays Class 3A eighth rated Interstate 35 (Truro) around 1 p.m. Depending on how those two games go, the Rams’ final contest of the day could be in Stanhope or Jewell.