It took a while, but when the Greene County softball team got the offense going, it really went. After losing 8-3 in the first game of a varsity doubleheader to West Marshall in State Center on Friday night, the Rams unleashed a 15 hit attack and won game two, 18-6, by the 10-run rule in six innings. Coach Tom Kennedy’s team is 1-5 overall and 1-3 in the Heart of Iowa Activities Conference. WM is 2-6 and 1-3.

Greene County never trailed in game two, although the teams were tied 1-1 after two innings. The Rams scored six times in the third, but a Ciera Randall grand slam home run for WM in the bottom of the third closed the gap to 7-5. Greene County came back with four runs in the fourth to make it 11-5 before the Trojans scored a run in the bottom of inning number four to put the score at 11-6. It was all Rams from there with four more runs in the fifth and three in the sixth.

Emma Hoyle was the winning pitcher. She went all six innings, allowing eight hits and six walks, and she hit two batters with pitches, all in the first four innings. Hoyle struck out seven Trojans.

Offensively, the Rams had multiple players with big games including Emma Stream. The sophomore catcher socked her first varsity home run, a two run line drive that cleared the left field fence in the fifth inning. She also doubled and singled, and totaled three runs batted in. Sophomore Olivia Shannon scored five runs on a double, three singles, and she reached on a WM error, while Hoyle singled three times, was hit by a pitch, and drove in a run.Freshman Kaylee Stalder and Paige Teeples each had two singles and were on base four times. Teeples and senior Karissa Stephenson each had one RBI. Payton Kokenge, an eighth grader, had a single.

On defense, Greene County was not charged with an error, but the Trojans had seven E’s.

Stalder took the pitching loss in game one, tossing six of the seven innings. Hoyle pitched one inning. The offense had just three hits with Hoyle socking a two run double down the left field line in the third inning for the only extra base hit. Alexa Peters had the other two Greene County hits. The Rams were charged with five errors to just one for the Trojans.

Greene County plays today in the Bondurant-Farrar tournament in Bondurant vs. Alburnett and Newman Catholic of Mason City.