Greene County improved to 28-6 on the season with a 10-2 victory on Wednesday night in Jefferson over Pocahontas Area in Class 3A Region 8 opening round softball. The Indians close the season with a 7-17 record.

Marissa Promes improved her record to 27-3 this season with the complete game victory. Promes retired the first 13 batters she faced and it looked as though she may through a five-inning perfect game, but a dropped fly ball gave the Indians their first base runner. Two doubles and a single followed and instead of a 10-0 victory in 4-1/2 innings, it was 10-2 and the game continued. Promes gave up one earned run on three hits, struck out 10, and walked no one. She now has 215 strikeouts to just 38 walks on the season.

Greene County scored twice in the first, three times in the second, three more runs in the third, and two in the fourth. They hit several balls hard in the fifth and sixth, but mostly at fielder’s and weren’t able to shorten the game. The Rams had three errors, one in the fifth and two in the seventh. Greene County was the home team and therefore, did not bat in the seventh.

Kuemper Catholic (Carroll) (20-13) defeated East Sac County (Lake View) and will travel to Jefferson to face the fourth ranked Rams on Friday in the Region 8 semifinal while Atlantic and Shenandoah play in Atlantic in the other semifinal. The two winners meet in Stuart on Monday, July 13 for the Region 8 title and trip to the State Tournament.

Friday night’s game between the Rams and Knights can be heard on KG98 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com. Coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. with the first pitch at 7 p.m.