Sports

Kendra Cooper, Severson win individual championships, Wood, Kendra Cooper, Walleser and Brennan claim distance medley title; Seven different Hawks earn State Meet berths
 

With every meet this season seeming to continually be its best yet, the Kee girls track team kept that trend in motion when it meant the most, extending this season yet another week to every track and field athlete’s ultimate destination with another strong showing at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Edgewood-Colesburg High School Thursday, May 11. Behind the strength of three event championships for automatic State Meet qualification, along with six other “best of the rest” qualifications within the next 14 best non-championship performances, the Lady Hawks added even more history to this storybook season, breaking three more school records on the way to 95 team points and a runner-up team finish in the 14-team field.

The Waukon boys golf team ended up with just one date of competition this past week, hosting Postville Tuesday, May 2. The Indians had a Monday, May 1 home date with Oelwein in Northeast Iowa Conference play postponed by cold, rainy weather to Tuesday, May 9.

The Indians posted a victory in last week’s lone competition, bettering the visiting Postville Pirates’ effort by a 185-224 final result. Freshman Logan Houg led the Indian effort with his medalist round of 43, with senior Logan Sullivan claiming runner-up medalist honors with his score of 45 strokes. Sophomore Michael Headington also ended up with a round under 50 with his 47, while junior Jess Kloke finished right at 50 strokes to complete the varsity team scoring for the golf Tribe in the victory.

Mitchell Snitker hurdles his way to NEIC championship in 400 meter lows

The Waukon boys track team brought its regular season schedule to a close this past week, having its final invitational meet of the season, Tuesday, May 2 at New Hampton, canceled due to cool, rainy weather before competing in the annual Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Meet Thursday, May 4 at Waverly-Shell Rock. The Indians benefited from a lone NEIC championship won by junior Mitchell Snitker, along with four other runner-up event finishes at the meet, in racking up 81 team points to finish in the middle of the NEIC Meet’s seven-team final standings with a fourth-place team placing.

TEAM SCORES
Decorah 154; New Hampton 107; Waverly-Shell Rock 97; WAUKON 81; Charles City 65; Crestwood 46; Oelwein 39

Freshman Ellec Armstead soars to NEIC championship in the high jump

For the second consecutive week, the Waukon girls track team was limited to just a single meet and that lone competition marked an end to the Indians’ regular season. The track Tribe took part in the annual Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Meet Thursday, May 4 at Waverly-Shell Rock High School, finishing sixth in the final team standings with a total of 58 team points.

TEAM SCORES
Decorah 180; Crestwood 91; Charles City 91; Waverly-Shell Rock 84; New Hampton 78; WAUKON 58; Oelwein 7

Kendra Cooper, Makayla Walleser win UIC titles - Cooper in record-breaking fashion, Katie Brennan claims own conference crown and anchors 4x400 relay crew to another new school record

On what may have been the most ideal day to compete, weather-wise, for the entire season so far, the Kee girls track team turned in some performances that shined brighter than that Thursday, May 4 sun at the annual Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet hosted by Edgewood-Colesburg High School. Crowning three UIC champions and breaking three school records in the process, the Lady Hawks racked up 99 points to finish third in the final 11-team standings at the meet.

TEAM SCORES
North Fayette Valley 131; South Winneshiek 119; KEE 99; Edgewood-Colesburg 84; Central Elkader 79; Clayton Ridge 64; MFL/MarMac 50; Starmont 33.5; Turkey Valley 27; West Central 12; Postville 3.5

Flack is UIC discus champ

The Kee boys track team had its regular season brought to a close this past week in limited fashion, as the Hawks had a final invitational meet canceled Monday, May 1 at MFL/MarMac due to cold, rainy weather but were able to compete in the annual Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet Thursday, May 4 at Edgewood-Colesburg. Behind four top-five finishes at the meet, the Kee tracksters tallied 37 team points to finish seventh in the final 11-team standings.

TEAM SCORES
North Fayette Valley 163; South Winneshiek 109; Turkey Valley 78; Starmont 76; Edgewood-Colesburg 68; Clayton Ridge 58.5; KEE 37; Central Elkader 31.5; MFL/MarMac 31; Postville 25; West Central 23

Caitlin Shelton, Carley Sweeney, Kylee Hager and Whitney Cota play to All-Conference honors

The Waukon girls golf team had just one date of competition last week, but opened this week with a third-place finish at the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament hosted by Charles City Monday, May 8. The Indians were finally able to make up a postponed April 4 date at Charles City, but ended up competing against more than just the host Comets in what turned out to be a Tuesday, May 2 quadrangular event. The Indian lady linksters also had a Monday, May 1 road dual at Oelwein postponed to a make-up date of Thursday, May 11 to be played, instead, at Waverly-Shell Rock.

The Kee girls track team ended up having just one meet to compete in as a team this week, winning the Clayton Ridge Invitational Tuesday, April 25. The track Hawks had their Thursday, April 27 meet at MFL/MarMac canceled due to weather. Kee junior Kendra Cooper did compete in the Drake Relays Thursday, April 27 in the discus event, with details of that showcase effort being highlighted in a shaded box in the Sports pages of the print e-dition and e-edition of The Standard.

The Lady Hawks took the Clayton Ridge Invitational team title by a narrow margin, topping the eight-team field once the final team score dust settled. The Kee track girls racked up six event victories and three runner-up finishes to compile 128 points, a championship total just five points ahead of second-place Sumner-Fredericksburg.

The Waukon boys track team competed in its only meet of this past week when the track Tribe traveled to Oelwein Tuesday, April 25. Despite winning four events and finishing second in three more to help rack up 77 team points, the Indians could not keep pace with Decorah’s 11 event victories and 148 team points in finishing second to the Vikings in the five-team meet field.

TEAM SCORES
Decorah 148; WAUKON 77; Wapsie Valley 69; Dunkerton 45; Oelwein 42

The Indian track girls hosted a near Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Meet, as all teams but Waverly-Shell Rock visited Waukon Tuesday, April 25 for the Indian Relays. The track Tribe was a fairly gracious host, finishing fifth in the final seven-team standings with 70 points fueled by just a pair of Indian event victories.

The Indians were also scheduled to compete at the MFL/MarMac Invitational Thursday, April 27 and at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Monday, May 1 but had both of those meets canceled due to cold and rainy weather. The track Tribe will now battle for conference supremacy at the Northeast Iowa Conference Meet to be hosted by Waverly-Shell Rock Thursday, May 4. The Lady Indians will then prepare for their Class 2A State Qualifying Meet to be held at North Fayette Valley in West Union Thursday, May 11, details of which can be found in a shaded box on this week’s Sports pages in the print edition and e-edition of The Standard.