Sports

Wed
19
Sep

Kee cross country girls third, boys 20th at loaded Starmont Invitational; Lady Hawks win smaller Central Elkader Invitational and boys finish fourth


Closes out team scoring ... Kee girls cross country freshman Reagan Mudderman leads a Starmont runner at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 11. Mudderman completed the Hawks’ team scoring at the meet, finishing 49th for overall team scoring in 23:29. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

The Kee cross country teams had their busiest week of the season, competing in a pair of meets within a couple days of one another. One of those meets was likely the largest the Hawks will compete in during the regular season, the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 11, where the Kee girls finished third and the Kee boys placed 20th. The Hawks then took part in the Central Elkader Invitational Thursday, September 13, the Lady Hawks returning to the top of that meet field and the Kee boys finishing fourth.

The Hawks were next scheduled to compete at the Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 18. Kee will then participate in the Jesup Invitational Tuesday, September 25.

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Wed
12
Sep

Tuesday Night Men’s League Champions...

The Tuesday Night Men’s League at the Waukon Golf and Country Club completed its season with a championship match between the team of Kyle Halverson/Robert Campbell (pictured left to right above) and the team of Dan Headington/Kris Krueger. The Halverson/Campbell team won the final play-off match with a two-hole sudden play-off to become the 2018 Men’s League Champions. Seventeen two-man teams competed in the Tuesday Night Men’s League at the Country Club. The Men’s League has been held each summer at the Country Club since 1977. The season is made up of eight weeks of team matches between three different divisions, including match and medal play. Play-off qualifiers were involved in a five-week play-off. Submitted photo.
 

Wed
12
Sep

Kee girls win North Fayette Valley meet by claiming half of meet’s top-10 including another Brennan, Meyer top-end sweep; Kee boys finish fifth


Stride for stride ... Kee girls cross country senior Makayla Walleser battles stride for stride with this MFL/MarMac runner at the North Fayette Valley Invitational Thursday, September 6 at West Union. Walleser finished 17th overall in a time of 24:07.42. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

Holds him off ... Kee boys cross country senior Ryan Whalen races toward the finish line with this determined Postville runner on his trail at the North Fayette Valley Invitational held Thursday, September 6 at West Union. Whalen was able to hold off the Pirate challenger by just over half a second, finishing 45th overall in a time of 23:07.32. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

The Kee cross country teams finally returned to the race course after more than two weeks idle from competition, with the Lady Hawks returning right to the top of their team race and the Hawk boys placing fifth in their first team-scored race of the season at North Fayette Valley Thursday, September 6. The Hawks sat completely idle two weeks ago when the August 28 Oelwein Invitational and August 30 Charles City meet addition were both canceled due to weather, and then had the Tuesday, September 4 Clayton Ridge Invitational also canceled before finally being able to compete at North Fayette Valley.

Wed
12
Sep

Waukon volleyball team defeats Decorah, wins four matches to finish third at Kepros Invite


Team-high nine kills ... Waukon volleyball senior Brigid Berns swings away in the Indians’ three-set home sweep of Decorah Tuesday, September 4. Berns pounded out a team-high nine kills and also recorded five digs and two assists in the match. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

Bulman blasts ... Waukon volleyball junior Leah Bulman unloads on an attack in the Indians’ three-set home sweep of Decorah Tuesday, September 4. Bulman hammered out four kills in the match and also had one ace serve and three digs. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

The Waukon volleyball team got its Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) season off to a successful start this past week before playing in a weekend tournament in Cresco. The Indian netters swept Decorah in three sets to open both their NEIC and home season Tuesday, September 4 before winning four of six matches to finish third at the annual Kepros Tournament hosted by Crestwood High School in Cresco Saturday, September 8.

The volleyball Indians will now prepare to host their own home tournament this Saturday, September 15, details of which appear in a shaded box elsewhere on these Sports pages. The Tribe netters will then host Oelwein Tuesday, September 18 and will then host New Hampton Monday, September 24 before traveling to Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 25.

Wed
12
Sep

Waukon football team racks up over 500 yards of offense in 46-21 win at New Hampton

The Waukon football team continued its early-season non-district schedule against fellow Northeast Iowa Conference teams, traveling to New Hampton Friday, September 7. Although the two squads have waged war in some classic battles with postseason implications in recent years, this latest match-up was anything but that as the Indians rolled to a 46-21 victory over a New Hampton squad they eliminated in last season’s play-off run but whose now 0-3 season record provides evidence that it has obviously not rebounded from last year’s graduation loss as well as the Indians.

Wed
05
Sep

Kee football team falls at Rockford, 70-14, in final non-district game

The Kee football team made one of its longer road trips Friday, August 31 when the Hawks traveled to Rockford for their final non-district game of the 2018 season. The senior-led host Warriors had racked up a 74-18 victory in their first game of this season on the strength of a high-powered running game, and that trend proved to continue as the Hawks were dealt a 70-14 defeat.

That Rockford ground game chewed up 415 yards against the Hawk defense, with all but two of the Warriors’ nine touchdowns coming on the ground. The Rockford senior tandem of Kaden Lyman and Jacob Staudt accounted for 141 and 273 yards, respectively, ending up with averages of 17.6 and 30.3 yards per carry in the contest, with Staudt racking up five touchdowns along the way.

Wed
05
Sep

Waukon boys cross country team places third at MFL/MarMac


Just outside the top-10 ... Waukon boys cross country junior Zach Davison maintains a lead over a runner at the MFL/MarMac Invitational Thursday, August 30 at Tri-City Golf Course near Luana. Davison finished just outside the meet’s top-10 individual finishers, coming in 11th in 19:29.58. Standard photo by Joe Moses. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

After looking far and wide for its first competition of the season following weather cancellations, the Waukon boys cross country team ended up competing just a short distance away from home to open its 2018 season at the MFL/MarMac Invitational with a third-place team finish. The Indians first had their originally scheduled Tuesday, August 28 Oelwein Invitational canceled due to rainy weather, and then also had a schedule-added Charles City meet Thursday, August 30 canceled due to remnants of that rainy weather, before ultimately ending up competing at the Tri-City Golf Club near Luana Thursday, August 30.

The Indians got a pair of top-five individual efforts and ultimately had all their five scored runners finish in the top 25 individuals of the 55-runner varsity field. That effort was good enough for third place in the nine-team varsity field, just two points behind Class 1A fourth-rated South Winneshiek.

Wed
05
Sep

Waukon cross country girls open season with dominance at MFL/MarMac


Runner-up effort leads the pack ... Waukon girls cross country junior Katelyn Benzing charges down a hill at the MFL/MarMac Invitational held Thursday, August 30 at Tri-City Golf Course near Luana. Benzing led the Indian effort at the meet, running to second place overall in a time of 22:15.10. Standard photo by Joe Moses. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

It was a bit of a challenge for the Waukon girls cross country team to gets its first competition of the season this past week, but once they did the Lady Indians made the most of it, sweeping the MFL/MarMac Invitational at both the varsity and junior varsity levels with some domination of the top-10 individual placewinnings. The distance Tribe first had its originally scheduled Tuesday, August 28 Oelwein Invitational canceled due to rainy weather, and then also had a schedule-added Charles City meet Thursday, August 30 canceled due to remnants of that rainy weather, before ultimately ending up just about 20 minutes down the road to top all teams at the Tri-City Golf Club near Luana Thursday, August 30.

Wed
05
Sep

Waukon football team opens home schedule with 22-7 win over Crestwood

The Waukon football team put forth a much more methodical effort in its home season opener Friday, August 31, finishing on top of a 22-7 final result against fellow Northeast Iowa Conference school Crestwood for the Tribe’s first win of the season. Keeping on its three-touchdown scoring pace established in last week’s season-opening loss, the grid Tribe toiled out three longer, more sustained drives to find paydirt this week, coupling that result with a shut-out defensive effort for all but the first three minutes of the third quarter.

That defensive effort limited each phase of Crestwood’s attack to just over 100 yards, with 105 yards rushing and 104 through the air. The Indians managed a bit more success in each of what was also a nearly balanced attack of 129 rushing yards and 140 more passing.

Wed
29
Aug

Wayne Kreitzer wins first week of Halfback Harry

The 2018 football season is underway and with it comes the return of The Standard’s Halfback Harry contest. The opening week of the contest proved to be somewhat of a logjam in all competitions.

Three entries tied in each of the two aspects of the contest, including a trio that missed just two of this week’s 20 games. Wayne Kreitzer of Cresco, Dana Fink of Perry and Mark Goeke of Riceville were locked in that initial battle, requiring the total points scored by winning teams tie-breaker to be implemented. This week’s 20 winning teams racked up 738 total points, giving Kreitzer the first-week nod with his choice of 732 points, with Fink’s guess of 767 points and Goeke’s choice of 680 each being further off.

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