Greene County played one game in the Ogden softball tournament on Saturday before it was rained out. The Rams lost 7-4 to Class 4A number 13 Boone to fall to 0-4 on the season. The four teams the Rams played in the first week of the season have a combined record of 12 wins and three losses and three of the four are ranked in their respective classes by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

Unlike the first three games, Greene County scored first against Boone. The Rams put two runs on the board in the bottom of the first for a 2-0 lead. Megan Carey led off with a single and advanced to third base on a double by Hannah Promes. Jenna Beyers followed with a run scoring single, and Megan Durbin’s SAC fly to center put the Rams up by two runs.

Boone scored three times in the third inning and three more in the fourth with half the runs being scored when Promes was pitching and the other half with Beyers toed the pitching rubber. Only one of the runs off Promes was earned, while all three were earned against Beyers. Promes allowed two hits, walked a batter, and had one strikeouts. Beyers gave up three hits and three walks. She did not have a strikeout.

Down 6-2, the Rams mounted a sixth inning rally. Faith Davis drew a one out walk and Carey singled. Two runs scored on the same play to make it 6-4 when Promes hit a ground ball to the shortstop with runners at second and third. Instead of getting the out at first, the Toreadors threw home, and the throw was off target, going to the backstop. Promes picked up one run batted in on the fielder’s choice. Beyers followed with another base hits, but the potential tying runs were stranded when the next two Rams grounded out.

The last run of the game scored on a single, walk, and infield error.

Coach Tom Kennedy saw several positives including the decrease in the number of strikeouts from earlier in the week. In their four games, the Rams have seen the number of times they’ve fanned fall from 15 in the opener, to 13, four, and three. No one in the top six spots in the order for Greene County struck out against Boone.

Carey and Beyers each had two hits with one each for Promes, Samantha Hardaway, and Tieryn Tucker.

The game was halted after six innings due to a time limit.

The Rams host Roland-Story (Story City) on Tuesday at the City diamond on East Lincolnway.