Category: Sports

~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County baseball team picked up one win and three losses in recent action. The Rams defeated Nevada, but lost to Collins-Maxwell-Baxter, Winterset and Gilbert. Gilbert 8, GC 7 The Rams lost 8-7 at Gilbert June 3in Heart of Iowa Activities Conference play, despite having more hits and fewer errors than the Tigers. Coach…

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County Ram softball season kicked off Monday, May 23, in Jefferson with a 5-4 victory over PCM (Monroe). It was a Heart of Iowa Activities Conference game. Junior Hannah Promes was the winning pitcher. She also slammed a three-run home run to left center in the fourth inning to put the Rams up…

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County Ram baseball season got underway May 23 in Jefferson against PCM (Monroe). It was a Heart of Iowa Activities Conference contest with the Rams falling to the Mustangs 5-4.

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal Greene County boys’ track coach Dean Lansman presented awards for the recently completed season. Senior sprinter Max Neese was named team MVP. Neese is a 12-time state meet qualifier including the maximum four events this year. He was also named the Most Valuable Sprinter.

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Greene County sophomore Rachael Danielson was medalist at the Region 1 Class 4A final golf meet held at the Carroll Country Club Monday. Danielson shot an 84 for the 18 holes. She will play in the state meet May 31-June 1 at Coldwater Links Golf Course in Ames. The individuals with the five lowest scores qualify for the state meet.…

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In the final Ram appearance at the state track and field meet, the girls 800 meter sprint medley relay placed 14th with a time of 1:52.49. Runners were freshman Melanie Doran, sophomores Laurin Lyons and Megan Durbin, and junior Olivia Hansen. Winning time in class 3A was 1:46.46 set by Wahlert High School of Dubuque. That was a state meet record…

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Greene County Ram senior Daric Whipple placed fifth in the 400 meter hurdles in Class 3A at the state track and field meet Friday with a time of :54.69. Winning time was :53.06 by JoJo Frost of Center Point. His fifth place finish was the best for the Rams on Friday.

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Neese places ninth twice Greene County High School sophomore Megan Durbin won the state title in the 3A girls high jump. The high jump ended at 5′ 5″. Two other competitors, junior Sunday Faya of Denison-Schleswig and sophomore Maria Gorham of North Polk, also cleared the bar at 5′ 5″. Durbin had missed one jump, her first attempt at 4′…

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~courtesy of The Scranton Journal The Greene County high school track and field teams competed at a 3A state qualifying meet in Winterset on Thursday, May 12. Both Ram teams finished fifth in a field of strong competition,

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~courtesy of The Scanton Journal Greene County girls and boys teams competed in the Heart of Iowa Conference track meet in Gilbert on Tuesday, May 3. They also took part in the North Polk Comet Invitational Coed meet on Thursday.

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The Greene County middle school girls’ track team sent 11 athletes to compete at the Mike Henderson State Meet at Waukee on Saturday, May 7. The seventh grade girls scored 10 points and placed 13th out of 19 in the large school division.  The eighth grade girls did not place in the top six in any event, so they did…

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The Greene County middle school girls track and field teams combined to compete at the HOIAC conference meet at Monroe on Friday, May 6.  The Rams faced some very tough competition and placed seventh out of nine teams. Team scores were Gilbert 182, North Polk 129.5, Roland-Story 84, Nevada 77, Prairie City-Monroe 76.5, South Hamilton 60, Greene County 39, Collins-Maxwell-Baxter…

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