A fine Greene County High School baseball season came to an end Friday night in the opening round of Class 3A District 16 tournament play when the Rams fell to Atlantic 5-3. Coach Mark Sawhill’s team finishes the 2015 campaign with 19 wins and 11 losses. The wins are the most in Sawhill’s 13 seasons heading the program. Atlantic is 21-12 and advances to Monday night’s district title game in Carroll vs. the Carroll Tigers.

Senior Riah Nelsen is 7-2 on the mound after taking the loss. He went the first three innings and allowed four runs, all earned, on six hits and four walks. Nelsen entered the game with just 22 walks to 72 strikeouts on the season, but control was an issue on Friday night as he three nearly 80 pitches in his three innings on the mound. The right hander fanned three. Senior Colton Fitzpatrick pitched the fourth, fifth and sixth innings and allowed just one unearned run. Fitzpatrick gave up two hits, struck out four, and he did not walk a batter.

Atlantic scored twice in the first and third innings, and added a run in the sixth. The Rams had one run in the second and two in the third. Junior Tyler Beger singled in the first Greene County run, and a double by junior Reid Lamoureux briefly put the Rams up 3-2 in the top of inning number three. Junior Daric Whipple singled twice and Nelsen had a base hit as Greene County totaled only five hits vs. junior Ryan Hawkins, who went all seven innings for the win. Hawkins walked two, struck out five, and hit one batter with a pitch.

The Trojans had five runs, eight hits, and four errors, while the Rams had three runs on five hits, and they had two errors.