Greene County opens the abbreviated high school softball and baseball seasons on Monday, June 15 in Des Moines at Saydel High School. KG98 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com will bring you the Rams and Eagles on the baseball diamond around 7:30 Monday night for the head coaching debut of Matt Paulsen.

Tom Kennedy is the veteran softball coach of the Rams and he talked with Raccoon Valley Radio about team defense. “I think we’re solid on the left side of the infield (Izzy Bravard at third base and Carmyn Paup at shortstop). On the right side Tieryn (Tucker) at second base has made a lot of jumps defensively. I think we’ll be better defensively because of the total, and I think we have kids that can do the job. We’ll need to be better on defense because teams will put the ball in play against us and we’ll need to be able to field and not give too many extra outs.”

The Rams were 10-18 a season ago and porous defense at times was an issue.