Coach Matt Paulsen’s Greene County baseball team entered Friday’s Heart of Iowa Activities Conference home contest at Allensworth Field with Saydel riding a five-game losing streak. The Eagles already owned a 10-0 victory over the Rams in Des Moines last month to open conference play, but the coaching staff and players were confident that if they played a complete game, they would snap the streak, and that’s just what happened. Saydel scored single runs in the second, fourth, and sixth innings, while the Rams had singletons in the fourth and fifth, then scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the sixth.

Senior lefty Kole Teeples was the winning pitcher. Not an especially hard throwing, but he kept the Eagles off balance with off-speed pitches. He went six innings, allowing three earned runs on nine hits, no walks, and one strikeout, and the defense, which at times has been shaky, had no errors on Friday night. Senior Joe Carey pitched the seventh for the save. He had a walk and a strikeout.

The Rams also had 11 hits vs. the Eagles, all singles. Coach Paulsen reports seniors Max Riley and Bryce Stalder each singled twice and drove in a run, and junior Brayden Roberts recorded a pair of base hits. Senior Blake Hamann and junior Dakota Mobley each had a single and RBI, with singles by sophomore Gabe Ebersole, Carey and Teeples.

Greene County is 4-8 overall and 3-3 in the HOIAC while the Eagles fell to 7-6 and 3-4.