Greene County maintained its unblemished Heart of Iowa Activities Conference record away from Jefferson on Tuesday night. Coach Chris Nelson’s Rams were 64-55 winners in Gilbert on KG98 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com to improve to 7-0 in the league on the road and 7-1 overall away from home. The Rams are enjoying their first winning season since the 2011-12 team went 13-10. So far this season the Rams are 13-6 and they are alone in second place in the HOIAC at 12-3. Gilbert is 11-7 and 10-5, and the Rams broke a 10-game losing streak over the years to Gilbert teams. The Tigers won 68-62 in Jefferson in overtime on Jan. 6 when they went 34 of 49 from the free throw line.

A hot start led to Greene County leading 18-9 after one quarter on Tuesday night. The lead grew to as many as 14 points at 25-11 before the Tigers went on a 9-0 second quarter run to close the gap to 25-20. The Rams recovered and led 32-23 at intermission. The second half was much of the same as Greene County led by as many as 14 points and by as few as six, but after Gilbert climbed to within 51-45 in the last period, the Rams increased the lead to 13 shortly thereafter, and Gilbert went to its reserves trailing by 10 points with 56 seconds left in the game.

Senior Trey Tucker started the night with 1,700 career points and he led all players with 29 to put him at 1,729 with at least three games remaining. Sophomore Trey Hinote added 20 points, and no other Ram had more than five. Greene County made 23 of 50 shots from the floor including seven of 18 from three-point range. The Rams were 11 of 17 from the foul line and tuned the ball over 10 times.

Gilbert was 17 of 54 overall and seven of 26 on three-pointers. The Tigers made 16 of 21 foul shots and had 15 turnovers. Leading Gilbert were a pair of sophomores in Will Turners and Matt Barrage, each with 11 points. Senior Steven Lawrence, Gilbert’s leading scorer on the season at 12.6 points per game, was held to four points, and no field goals.

One more HOIAC contest remains for the Rams. They’ll be in Monroe on Friday, Feb. 10 vs. PCM on KG98 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com. The regular season ends on Feb. 14 when the Rams face Perry at Perry in non-conference action.