Perry improved its high school softball record to 8-3 with a 13-3 victory in Jefferson on Tuesday night over Greene County. The game was stopped early after six innings by the 10-run rule. The Rams fell to 2-10, their worst start to a season in well over a decade.

Junior Johanna Diw went four for four at the plate with a two-run homer (her fifth this season), a double and two singles. She drove in three runs and score four. Number nine hitter Gabby West walked and doubled twice, and she had two RBI. Adrianna Eastman singled, doubled and had two runs batted in, and Emma Olejniczak doubled, singled, and drove two runs in. Sidney Vancil had one RBI on a SAC fly, and Alyssa Kruger had a single, a walk, and one RBI. The  Jayettes had 13 hits on the night.

The Class 4A seventh ranked Perry team scored two runs in the first, two in the second, three in the fourth and six in the sixth. The Rams had a first inning run and two in the fifth.

Olejniczak was the winning pitcher. The University of Northern Iowa recruit went the first five innings and gave up three runs, two earned, on five hits, all singles. She walked no one and struck out six. Vancil pitched a scoreless sixth, giving up a hit and striking out one.

All five Greene County hits were singles. Megan Carey had a base hit and scored twice. Laurin Lyons had a run-scoring single, and the other hits were singles from Izzy Bravard, Melanie Doran, and Jenna Beyers.

Perry is at Bondurant-Farrar tonight in Raccoon River Conference play while the Rams don’t play tonight.