Greene County and South Hamilton played Heart of Iowa Activities Conference softball and baseball at Jewell on Wednesday night. The varsity softball game went to the Rams by a final of 10-1 and SH won the baseball game 7-2.

Emma Hoyle has been historically good to start the season. Greene County’s senior pitcher threw all seven innings, allowing one run on two hits and two walks while striking out 10. In 19 innings this season, the right-hander has fanned 36 batters, walked two, and allow just five hits and one run.  The Rams had four hits and 15 stolen bases vs. SH. Olivia Shannon had eight steals herself. The hits were singles with one each by Shannon, Alexa Peters, Emma Stream, and Payton Kokenge. Stream drove in two runs with one RBI each for Shannon, Peters, Hoyle, Becca Anderson, and Paige Teeples. The Rams are 2-0 in conference play and 3-0 overall while SH fell to 0-2 in the league and overall.

The baseball Rams were coming off a 4-3 late comeback win in Jefferson on Tuesday night vs. Nodaway Valley for their first victory of the young season. Wednesday saw the Rams fall to the Hawks, 7-2. Gavyn Winters pitched two innings and Matthew Hovick went four innings on the mound with Hovick allowing four earned runs and SH scoring one earned run off Winters. The Rams were charged with two errors. Greene County had seven hits, all singles, with Noah Hinote recording the only RBI for the Rams. Lane Fields had two hits.

Because Greene County hosted a boys’ soccer Substate final in Jefferson, Wednesday’s Heart of Iowa Activities Conference baseball and softball was moved from Jefferson to Jewell. The Hawks will make the return trip to Jefferson on June 12.

Both Greene County teams are off tonight and will host PCM (Monroe) in softball and baseball on Friday night in Jefferson. The varsity baseball game will be broadcast on KG98 and streamed on www.raccoonvalleyradio.com around 7:30 p.m.