When Greene County High School head softball coach Tom Kennedy received the phone call on Thursday afternoon asking if he wanted his third ranked softball team to play a non-conference game the next night in Le Grand against number five East Marshall, he jumped at the chance. On Friday night, it was East Marshall, ranked fifth, that did the jumping, scoring six runs in the fourth inning en route to an 8-2 victory over the Rams in a rematch of the 2014 Class 3A State Tournament third place game won by Greene County, 10-3.

Mariah Fritz won the battle of returning all-state pitchers as she gave up one earned run on five hits while walking four and striking out eight. Marissa Promes fell to 11-1 on the season with the loss. She allowed six hits and five earned runs. She only walked , but also hit two with pitches and threw three wild pitches. The Greene County defense committed four errors.

The Rams scored an unearned run in the top of the first and Tressa Rasmussen hit a solo homer in the second inning for a 2-0 lead. EM used a Taylor Fricke two-run homer to tie the game in the fourth, then went ahead 3-2 on a pair of doubles. The last three runs of the frame were unearned. The Mustangs added two more runs in the fifth while collecting just one hit, a single.

The loss is the first in 13 games this season for Greene County while EM improves to 9-2.