Greene County dropped a 50-44 Heart of Iowa Activities Conference girls’ basketball game in Story City to Roland-Story on Tuesday night in a game heard on KG98. The loss was the fourth in five road games for Coach Chad Morton’s Rams and they dropped to 6-6 overall and 5-5 in the conference. R-S improved to 5-7 overall and 5-5 in the league as each team won on their home floor in the two-game season series.

The Norsemen entered the game shooting 27 percent from the floor and averaging 32 points per game, but they did much better than their averages. R-S was unofficially 20 of 43 from the floor for 46% and the scored 18 points above their average. Sophomore Alexa Whipple scored 15 points for R-S, 11 above her average entering the game. Senior Natalie Vance was held to 10 points, nine below her average.

The Rams had 11 points each from junior Kayla Mobley and Hannah Onken. The Rams made a game of it late after trailing 18-3 nine minutes into the contest. Down by 42-27 with 6:48 to play in the game the Rams got to within four points at 44-40 with 2:29 remaining, but could get no closer.

The Greene County girls and boys are home in the middle school gym in Jefferson on Friday night with PCM (Monroe). Coverage on KG98 begins at 5:45 p.m. with the girls playing at 6 p.m. and the boys to follow.

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