Greene County’s high school baseball team had its busiest week of the season last week. The Rams capped off six games in six days by winning both games in the Kuemper Catholic Tournament in Carroll to finish the week with a 4-2 record. Coach Mark Sawhill’s team picked up wins over Spencer and the host Knights on Saturday to improve to 9-11 on the season.

Game one saw the Rams win 5-1 over Lakes Conference member Spencer behind the pitching of senior Dylan Fouch, solid defense, and enough offense. Fouch pitched all seven innings and improved his record to a team best 4-2. He allowed one earned run on six hits and just one walk. Fouch had two strikeouts.

Spencer’s run came in the first, while the Rams scored single runs in the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth. The Tigers had two errors and the Rams just one. The Tigers started the day with a 10-5 record.

The only Greene County run batted in was from Bryce Hoyle on a SAC fly. Greene County had doubles from Tom Gannon, Wade Adcock, and Austin Delp. Chase Stoline, Trey Tucker, and Ben Bravard, each singled vs. the Tigers.

The game vs. Kuemper Catholic saw freshman Nick Breon, a transfer from Boone, make his varsity pitching debut. He went the first five innings and was the winning pitcher in the 9-2 victory. Breon allowed both runs, but just one was earned. He gave up six hits, hit two batters, and walked one, while recording three strikeouts. Ben Wilkins pitched the last two innings and allowed no runs on two hits and no walks with two strikeouts.

The Rams had three errors to one for Kuemper and Greene County out hit the Knights 11 to eight. Jordan Patterson took advantage of a rare start and knocked in a run with a SAC fly, and also singled. Delp singled, doubled, and totaled four runs batted in, while Trey Tucker doubled twice, tripled once, and had one RBI. Wilkins singled and doubled, while Stoline singled twice and brought two runs home. Gannon doubled and collected one run batted in.

Greene County trailed the Knights 2-1 after three innings but scored four times in the fourth and added two more runs in both the fifth and seventh innings. Kuemper is 13-10, so Greene County won twice on Saturday vs. teams with winning records.

The Rams are at home tonight on KG98 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com vs. Nevada (9-7) around 7:30 p.m. The Cubs won 2-1 in Nevada in the first meeting between these two teams when Tyler Shaefer and Austin Delp dueled in out on the mound. Both are expected to be the starting pitchers tonight.