Waukon baseball plays to 15-19 record, makes some history in 2023

The 2023 Waukon baseball season continued to build on a renewed foundation with a third consecutive season of 15 wins that marks the best consecutive season stretch for Waukon baseball since the two-year span of a combined 51 wins during the diamond Tribe’s 2007 and 2008 campaigns that included the program’s best-ever season record of 29-10 in 2007. This season’s 15 wins all came in the regular season, marking the most regular season victories for the Indians since 2008, and improves upon the 14 wins garnered during last summer’s regular season and another 14-win regular season from the Tribe’s 2011 campaign that marks the most recent best record during a 17-22 campaign that took the Indians to their last State Tournament appearance, that season grand finale coming amongst Iowa’s Class 3A ranks.

For as solid as another 15-win result continues to make the program’s foundation, another play made here or there in this season’s 15-19 campaign could have provided an even greater building block, as eight of this season’s losses came by a single run and more than half of this summer’s Indian defeats (11 in total) came by three runs or less. The final three of those single-run Indian losses all came in extra innings in the final two weeks of this season, including a 7-6 loss in their first postseason game in the Class 2A district semifinals to an MFL/MarMac squad that played to the brink of State Tournament qualification this summer.

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