Sports

Wed
30
Nov

Waukon bowling team gets inaugural season underway with home meet against Waverly-SR


Waukon boys bowling senior Tyler O’Neill slings a shot down the lane in the Indians’ first-ever high school bowling meet Tuesday, November 22 at home against Waverly-Shell Rock. O’Neill fired a two-game total of 270 pins in the home loss to the Go-Hawks. 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.

Waukon girls bowling senior Katie Hagensick launches a ball down the lane in the Indians’ inaugural high school bowling meet Tuesday, November 22 at home against Waverly-Shell Rock. Hagensick bowled a team-high 242 pins to lead the Lady Indians in their 1,639-2,464 loss to the Go-Hawks. 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.

History unfolded at Odie’s Place in Waukon Tuesday, November 22 as Waukon High School hosted its first-ever high school bowling meet. The inaugural-season bowling Indians played host to Waverly-Shell Rock, an experienced team that brought with it an established high level of success and got this 2016 season off to another successful start by sweeping both the girls’ and boys’ match-ups from the Indians by scores of 1,639-2,464 in the girls’ meet and 1,779-2,699 in the boys’ contest.

“Scott Oder (of Odie’s Place) was a tremendous help in making sure things ran very smoothly,” Coach Keenan said. “There is a lot of work that goes into making sure that happens.”
The bowling Indians will next host Tripoli Friday, December 2 before traveling to Buffalo Center Friday, December 9 to bowl against North Iowa.

Wed
30
Nov

Waukon wrestling team returns six letterwinners for 2016-2017


Left to right - Front row: Tyler Block, Miles Hansmeier, Nathan Benzing, Chance Cota, Andrew Dickson, Lance Egan. Middle row: Kevin Gordon, Tristan Hansmeier, Carter Benzing, Lars Larson, Peyton Bieber. Back row: Landon Berns, Nathan Johnson, Luke Pladsen, Blain Swenson, Dawson Palmer. Not pictured: Lukas Larson, Alex Brink.

The 2016-2017 Waukon wrestling team will benefit from the return of six varsity letterwinners from a squad that finished with a 7-16 season record last winter. Half of those returning letterwinners will be from this year’s senior class, which features five seniors who return with this season’s most experience. This year’s senior group includes Nathan Benzing, Chance Cota, Andrew Dickson, Kyle Gordon and Blain Swenson.

“Another great group of senior leadership,” fourth-year Waukon head wrestling coach Matt Pladsen said of his five veteran upperclassmen. “They come to the wrestling room every day and work hard and encourage and push the underclassmen. This group of seniors, in my mind, will go on in their future endeavors to be great individuals.”

Wed
23
Nov

Waukon boys basketball team returns five letterwinners for 2016-2017


Left to right - Front row: Michael Headington, Michael Sweeney, Brandon Regan, Pryce Hesse, Jared Campbell. Back row: Garrett Garin, Colin Waters, Isaiah Welch, Evan Armstead, Ethan Krueger, Tanner Mathis. Not pictured. Kyle Jones, Abe Schwartz, Mitchell Snitker.

The 2016-2017 Waukon boys basketball team will be looking to put together a third consecutive winning season for the program, and will have five varsity letterwinners returning from last season’s squad that posted a second consecutive 12-win season. That number of veteran returnees matches the number of graduated seniors lost from last season’s team, but that graduation loss took with it four of last season’s starting five.

“We have some big holes to fill after graduating four All-Conference players,” Waukon boys basketball coach Jed Hemann said about his charges’ 2016-2017 campaign. “In addition to their leadership, last year’s seniors accounted for over 80% of our scoring last season and over 75% of our rebounding.”

Wed
23
Nov

Kee boys basketball team returns starting five in large group of nine returning letterwinners for ‘16-’17

The 2016-2017 Kee boys basketball team will benefit from the return of nine varsity letterwinners from a squad that finished 7-16 last season under first-year head coach Patrick Sullivan. Within those nine returning veterans are the Hawks’ five late-season starters who also helped Kee to a 5-10 mark and eighth-place finish in the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC).

With five of those letterwinners being multi-year varsity veterans, that large collection of returning experience includes a group of seven seniors and two multi-letterwinning juniors. Danny Brennan, Evan Whalen and Clay Olson are multi-year senior veterans, with Tyler Reinhart, AJ Gagner, Jon Mooney and Spencer Colsch each being senior veterans from last year. Juniors Eric Rud and Kyle Hitchins complete this season’s list of multi-year veterans.

Wed
23
Nov

Intra-county season opener sees Kee get best of Waukon, 64-50

Both the Kee and Waukon girls basketball teams got their seasons underway in an early-season non-conference match-up Friday, November 18 in Lansing. The Class 1A fourth-rated and more veteran State Tournament qualifying crew for the host Hawks took a slight early lead over the overall younger Indians and continued to methodically build on it in all but an even last quarter, as Kee posted the 64-50 victory.

Waukon will have to wait until December for its next competition, playing back-to-back road games, at New Hampton December 2 and at Wartburg College against Denver December 3. The Tribe will then play another back-to-back pair, at Caledonia, MN December 8 before hosting Oelwein December 9.

Kee will next play host to Central Elkader Tuesday, November 29 before playing at Starmont Friday, December 2. The Hawks were then scheduled to play at Postville December 6, but the Pirates do not have a varsity girls team this season.

Wed
16
Nov

Waukon girls basketball team will return an abundance of young experience in group of six letterwinners for 2016-2017 campaign


2016 Waukon girls basketball freshmen through seniors... Left to right - Front row: Ally Goltz, Molly Brodahl, Aubree Cota, Kaylee Gibbs, Carrissa Bockman, Alison Sherman, Berklee Hanson. Second row: Leah Bulman, Grace Howe, Cayla Nolting, Brittney Troester, Ellec Armstead, Morgan Hennessy, Rebecca Thorstenson, Hailey Regan. Back row: Carley Sweeney, Faith Palmer, Brigid Berns, Sydney Ross, McKenzie Cooper, Brooke Wasson, Lauren Griffith, Regan Wasson, Maddie Ahlstrom.

The 2016-2017 Waukon girls basketball season will see a collection of six varsity letterwinners return from a team last winter that produced a 9-12 season record. That letterwinning experience includes just one upperclassman, a fact that third-year Waukon girls basketball head coach Andy Sires sees as bittersweet.

“We are a very young team, which can be a positive because I have most of my core varsity team for four years,” Coach Sires said. “That is not the usual norm when it comes to varsity basketball. Most teams only have one or two underclassmen even dressing varsity.”

The Indians will get their season underway this Friday, November 18 when they travel to Lansing to take on fellow Allamakee County squad Kee for an early-season, non-conference match-up. The basketball Tribe will then wait until December 2 to open its NEIC season at New Hampton.

Wed
16
Nov

Kee girls basketball team returns historic veteran core for 2016-2017


2016 Kee girls basketball returning letterwinners... Left to right - Front row: Claudia Mathis, Jordyn Burroughs, Makayla Walleser, Nicki Wood. Back row: Ashley Schwartzhoff, Casey Welsh, Maddie Gruber, Kendra Cooper, Courtney Cooper, Chloe Severson. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook.

The 2015-2016 Kee girls basketball season was one for the history books and the record books, as the Lady Hawks played their way to a best-ever 22-3 season record, the program’s first-ever State Tournament qualification and the rewriting of a majority of the program’s individual and team records. Fortunately, for the Kee basketball girls the 2016-2017 season brings back a good number of authors of those historical chapters in the 10 returning letterwinners from last winter.

“With only two seniors graduating from last year’s squad, we have a good amount of experience coming back,” Kee girls basketball head coach Dan Love said. “We are going to lean on that experience early while looking to work in the rest of the hard working crew. The returning letterwinners are going to need to show their poise under pressure and their ability to elevate the level of play of those around them.”

Wed
16
Nov

Waukon cheer squad wins championship, runner-up honors at pair of competitions ...

The Waukon High School cheerleading squad took part in a pair of competitions within the past several weeks, bringing home a pair of high-end trophies from both events. The Lady Indians competed Sunday, October 30 at the Triton Challenge hosted by Iowa Central College in Fort Dodge, topping a five-team field in the Class 1A/2A Time Out division of competition. Saturday, November 5 the Indian cheer squad took part in the Iowa High School State Cheer Championships in Des Moines, placing second out of 15 teams competing in that same Class 1A/2A Time Out division. Pictured above with their State Runner-Up trophy are: Left to right - Front row: Ayonna McKithen, Mariah Hancock, Jade Blake, Michaela Dehli, Jasmyn Enyart. Back row: Whitney Cota, Jaydon Snitker, Sydney Garrett, Kasinda McKee, Hannah Rogers, Miranda Reinhardt, Leah Enyart. The same girls are pictured below with their championship trophy from the Triton Challenge from October 30. Submitted photos.
 

Wed
16
Nov

Waukon football team defies graduation losses to remain in State Play-Off hunt right up to the end of its 6-3 campaign for 2016

Facing a large graduation loss from last season’s third State Play-Off qualifying team in the last four seasons, along with the narrowing of the State Play-Off field to half as many teams this season, there weren’t many outside the team huddle who gave the 2016 Waukon football team much of a chance to once again be a play-off contender, or even produce a winning season record, for that matter.

Luckily, it’s the ones inside that huddle who have more control over that result, doing so to the tune of a 6-3 season record and a 5-2 Class 2A District 4 mark that left the Indians third in their district and knocking on the door of yet another State Play-Off qualification. The trimming of the State Play-Offs by the Iowa High School Athletic Association to just a 16-team field to try and eliminate such a strenuous play-off schedule allowed for only the first two teams in each district to automatically qualify for postseason play, along with two at-large wild card teams.

Wed
09
Nov

Kee football team plays to 3-6 season record

The 2016 Kee football season played out to a 3-6 overall record, but 10 points or less in four of those losses would have made for a much different result for this season. All three of those Kee victories this season came in the Hawks’ Eight-Player District 3, where Kee ended up in fourth place in the final seven-team standings with a 3-3 record against District 3 foes.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Sports