Category: Sports

~courtesy of The Scranton Journal Greene County claimed three victories at the Ogden Duals on January 3. The Rams defeated Southeast Valley 43-42, Ogden 48-27 and Audubon 72-12. Will Hansen, Joel Ward, Clint Dennhardt and Brenner Gallagher were undefeated in three matches. On Friday the Rams won the North Polk Round Robin Tournament in Alleman. The Rams scored 388 points,…

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Boys win despite loss of senior leader Lance Hughes Playing through adversity hasn’t been a strength of the Greene County boys basketball team this season, until they played the Saydel Eagles on the road Friday. The team learned Wednesday that senior Lance Hughes, a four-year varsity player who averages 21 points a game, is transferring to another school after the…

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County wrestling team swept the Coon Rapids-Bayard duals Dec. 20 with wins over Collins-Maxwell, Nodaway Valley and CR-B. There were only four bouts in the C-M match with the Rams winning three of those. The Crusaders had seven wrestlers, but Greene County dispatched all seven, giving up only one forfeit for CR-B points.…

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County wrestlers lost two duals in Forest City Tuesday, Dec. 18. Webster City took a match 60-17 and the host team won 51-17. Webster City 60 ~ Greene County 17 106 – Braden Gallagher lost by fall to Camron Phetxoumphone :34 113 – Brenner Gallagher lost by fall to Reece Sadler 1:17 120…

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The Greene County boys basketball team has a 4-6 record going into the holiday break after losing three games in five days. The Rams lost to the Boone Toreadors in Jefferson Friday. Despite the score being close most of the game, the Rams lost by a 9-point margin, 84-75.

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The Ram girls basketball team’s struggles to find the hoop and the boys team’s team struggles to find a solid defense following them to Wells Fargo Arena Dec. 18 for games against the Nevada Cubs. The girls lost 47-10 and the boys lost 77-69.

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County wrestlers lifted their record above the .500 mark Dec. 13 with three victories in dual competition at Saydel. The Rams are now 7-5 on the season. GC topped Nevada 65-12; Coon Rapids-Bayard 58-12 and Saydel 46-31. Five Rams went undefeated on the night, including Braden Gallagher, Brady Stauffer, Will Hansen, Brock Wuebker…

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The Greene County Ram basketball teams started the last week of play before the holiday break with a road trip to Woodward to play the non-conference Woodward-Granger Hawks Monday. The Rams returned home with a pair of losses. The Ram girls lost their eighth game of the season, but the 11-point margin was smaller than in any other loss this…

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The Greene County Rams hosted the Roland-Story Norse for basketball Friday and split the varsity games. The boys improved their record to 4-3 overall and 2-3 in the Heart of Iowa Conference, while the girls remained winless, 0-7 overall and 0-5 in the conference.

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County wrestlers dropped two dual matches at Gilbert Thursday. They lost 54-27 to Adel-DeSoto-Minburn and were edged out of a win by Gilbert 39-37. Greene County went 3-2 Saturday at the Ogden dual meet tournament. They began with a close loss to East Sac County 41-39, then won the next three: 72-12 over…

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The Greene County boys basketball team ended a two-game slide with a 66-50 win over the 0-3 Comets of North Polk in Jefferson Dec. 7. Senior Lance Hughes took the reins as team leader and high scorer in the absence of classmate Trey Hinote, who suffered a badly sprained ankle in the Nov. 30 game against South Hamilton a week…

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The Paton-Churdan girls basketball team is 2-1 after a win over the Woodbine Tigers 61-36 in Churdan Tuesday. Coach Tom Kennedy’s Rockets were in charge the entire game, leading 20-6 after one quarter, 37-22 at halftime, and 53-28 after three quarters.

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