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Home ›Waukon girls basketball team suffers rare winless week against rated NEIC foes, falls at 3A top-rated Crestwood, 63-41, and at home to 4A 14th-rated-WSR, 47-34
The Waukon girls basketball team’s Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standing took a bit of a hit this past week at the hands of the only two rated teams in the conference. Facing both Class 3A top-rated Crestwood and Class 4A 14th-rated Waverly-Shell Rock within three nights of one another, the Indians ended up playing through their first winless week of the season, falling to the undefeated Cadets on the road, 63-41, Tuesday, January 23 before suffering a scoreless fourth quarter to allow a late lead to erode away to a 47-34 loss at home to the Go-Hawks Friday, January 26. A Monday, January 22 non-conference game at Prairie du Chien, WI was canceled due to winter weather conditions and will not be made up this season.
The winless week allowed Waverly-Shell Rock to leap frog the Indians in the current NEIC standings, the Tribe’s loss to those Go-Hawks dropping the Indians’ season mark to 10-6 overall and 7-3 in NEIC play while boosting Waverly-Shell Rock to an 8-2 NEIC record, 13-4 overall. Both teams still have two games remaining on their respective NEIC schedules, both having to face a yet winless Charles City team but Waverly-Shell Rock still having to meet NEIC leader Crestwood and the Indians still having to host a Decorah squad that sits in a tie for fourth place in the NEIC standings at 4-6 but that had played the Indians to just a 37-32 difference earlier this season.
The Waukon girls basketball team will begin Class 3A regional tournament play at home Saturday, February 10 in Region 4 against North Fayette Valley. That first-round game will begin at 7 p.m. in the Waukon High School gym, with the winner then playing either Oelwein or top-rated and undefeated Crestwood at Cresco Wednesday, February 14, also beginning at 7 p.m. That regional semifinal winner will then advance on to the Region 4 championship game at Oelwein to play either 15th-rated Anamosa, Dyersville Beckman, Mount Vernon or West Delaware Saturday, February 17, again at 7 p.m., for the right to play in the Class 3A State Tournament scheduled for Tuesday through Saturday, February 27-March 3 in Des Moines.
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