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Home ›Waukon baseball team battles Cascade down to the wire to have season ended by just a 3-2 loss in semifinal round of Class 2A District Tournament
If a loss could feel anything at all like a win, the Waukon baseball team may have experienced just that in its Class 2A District 4 semifinal match-up at Cascade Tuesday, July 16 - and for all but the first inning, it was a win. After gifting the host Cougars a 3-0 headstart in the bottom of the first inning, the Indians not only shut down Cascade’s offense for the game’s final five frames but also used half of their 6-4 hit advantage, along with a bit of Cougar help, to score a pair of third-inning runs and then further battle the host squad all the way to the very end, only to have their season ended by just a 3-2 final margin.
The loss wraps up the baseball Tribe’s 2019 campaign with an 8-29 overall record that included a 1-17 mark to place seventh in the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standings. Cascade went on to have its single-run loss fortune reversed by fellow Northeast Iowa Conference squad Oelwein Saturday, July 20, the Huskies defeating the Cougars by a 9-8 final result to earn advancement to the Class 2A Substate 2 championship game Tuesday, July 23 to play another fellow Northeast Iowa Conference squad, New Hampton, for a trip to the Class 2A State Tournament.
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