One night after an impressive 5-4 season opening victory over PCM (Monroe) the Greene County softball team lost at home to Gilbert 13-10 on Tuesday night. Both teams are 1-1 overall and 1-1 in Heart of Iowa Activities Conference play. Coach Tom Kennedy’s team led 5-0 after three innings, but the Tigers scored 13 straight runs before a five run sixth closed the gap to three runs. Greene County went down in order in the bottom of the seventh.

The Tigers had 15 hits, 14 of them off starting and losing pitcher Hannah Promes. Samantha Hardaway pitched the final 1-2/3 innings after Promes went the first 5-1/3. The Rams had three errors to go with other plays that weren’t errors, but weren’t executed properly. Gilbert committed four errors, but none after the third inning. The Tigers put together good offensive and defensive efforts in the last four innings.

Jenna Beyers had a three-run triple for the only extra base hits for the Rams. The other seven hits for Coach Kennedy’s team were singles with two hits each from Promes and Faith Davis. Megan Durbin had a run-scoring single, while Megan Carey and Laurin Lyons each had base hits.

The Rams are scheduled for a third straight home game when they host CMB (Baxter) on Friday, May 27. CMB opened the season on Monday with an 11-0 victory over Gilbert. The Rams expect their only two seniors, Sydney Koch and Carleigh Paup, to be back in the lineup after they missed Tuesday’s game due to the Paton-Churdan senior class trip.