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03
Aug

Harpers Ferry Fireflies win National Championship to complete 15-0 season ...


Harpers Ferry Fireflies win National Championship to complete 15-0 season ...

The Harpers Ferry Fireflies Granny Basketball Team played to a National Championship Saturday, July 23, sweeping three games at the National Granny Basketball Tournament held at the Lipscomb University Activity Center in Nashville, TN. The team defeated the Missouri Show Me Shooters, 42-20, in the first round before downing the Louisiana Crushers, 27-14, in the tournament semifinals and then winning the national crown with a 47-38 championship game triumph over the Cedar Rapids Late Bloomers, another team competing from the state of Iowa. Teams competing in the national tournament came from Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana and Iowa. The Fireflies' national championship follows their state of Iowa championship won just over a month earlier and wraps up an undefeated, 15-0 season for the team that is made up of players from the tri-state area of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Wed
03
Aug

Kee baseball team makes considerable turn-around during 2016 campaign, plays to 24-15 season record and first UIC season championship since 2013

After playing to an 11-22 season record last summer, the Kee baseball team was looking to make significant strides in just the second year of Coach Jim Mauss being at the helm of the Hawk diamond dweller program. Not only did strides get made in reversing that season record to a 24-15 tally for the Hawks this season, but even further steps were taken all the way to the top of where Kee baseball has not been able to venture in the two previous seasons, the Hawks claiming the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) season championship for the first time since the 2013 season with a 14-2 UIC mark.

Wed
03
Aug

Waukon baseball team saves best games for last during 7-22 season

Having graduated two-thirds of his starting line-up from one of its better recent seasons last summer, Waukon baseball head coach Jerry Keenan knew there would be some growing pains heading into the 2016 season. Some of those pains resulted in a 7-22 overall record for the baseball Tribe’s recently completed summer campaign, but it was the growth that reached its pinnacle at season’s end that Coach Keenan was most pleased with, resulting in the Indians tallying their first postseason tournament win since the 2011 season and being within a base hit of earning another tournament triumph over one of the top teams in Class 2A.

Wed
27
Jul

WE BELIEVE... And now everyone else does too!! Kee softball team battles through three-game sweep of Class 1A elite to claim State Tournament Championship; Kee High’s first-ever State title in a female team sport


Members of the Kee softball team rush toward the Class 1A State Tournament Championship trophy they just earned after defeating top-ranked Akron-Westfield, 7-3, in the Class 1A State Championship game Friday evening, July 22 at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge. The Hawks’ state title triumph over the perennial power Westerners avenged a loss the Hawks suffered to them in the 2014 Class 1A State Championship game and capped off a three-game State Tournament run this past week that also included an 11-4 first-round victory over unranked Belle Plaine Monday, July 18 and a 5-2 win Thursday, July 21 over fourth-rated Martensdale-St. Mary’s in the semifinal round of the season grand finale. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more at the “Photo Galleries” link.

It was two seasons ago that the Kee softball team sent shockwaves through the Class 1A softball ranks by playing to a State Tournament Runner-Up finish after heading into the season-ending tournament unranked. Riding that wave ever since - mostly up but sometimes down, including missing out on a return trip to the season grand finale last summer, the Hawks climbed atop the crest of that wake this season and rode it all the way to its pinnacle, the Class 1A State Tournament Championship.

Wed
27
Jul

Waukon softball team plays to 7-20 season record, fifth-place NEIC finish under first-year head coach

The Waukon softball team played to a 7-20 overall season record during its 2016 campaign, compiling a 3-12 mark that placed the Indians fifth in the final six-team Northeast Iowa Conference standings - Oelwein not being able to field a varsity team once again this season. Guiding the Indians through this summer’s campaign was first-year head coach Amanda Eggerichs, who found herself assuming the reins of the program late in the spring after previous head coach Joe O’Neill was stricken with health issues and was not able to coach the team this season.

Wed
27
Jul

Hesse leads North Squad air attack in 49-35 Shrine Bowl win

Waukon High School graduated senior Peyton Hesse threw three touchdown passes and amassed 152 yards in converting eight of 12 passes in the 2016 Iowa Shrine Bowl played in the UNI-Dome at Cedar Falls Saturday evening, July 23. Hesse’s three touchdown passes helped the North Squad to a 49-35 victory in the annual football classic that also serves as the biggest fundraiser for the Shrine hospitals of Iowa.

After the North squad fought its way back from an early 21-7 scoreboard deficit, Hesse connected on a 58-yard touchdown pass with Gladbrook-Reinbeck graduated senior Colton Dinsdale to help the North keep pace. Hesse then connected on touchdown passes of 19 and 23 yards in the second half with Cedar Rapids Washington graduate Isaiah Nimmers, who scored three total touchdowns on his way to being named the game’s Most Valuable Player.

Sat
23
Jul

OUR TIME!!! Kee softball team reigns supreme as Class 1A State Tournament Champions!

The Kee softball team has reached the pinnacle of Class 1A, capping off a three-game sweep of Class 1A's elite this past week with a 7-3 triumph over Class 1A powerhouse Akron-Westfield Friday evening, July 22 in Fort Dodge. In a rematch from the 2014 State Championship game, the Hawks answered an early 1-0 deficit right away and then added a two-run fourth inning and four more runs in the sixth to pull away to the victory, all while junior pitcher Courtney Cooper and her defensive counterparts handcuffed the traditionally strong Akron-Westfield bats to just three hits to bring to an end a 13-game State Tournament winning streak for the Westerners and begin a Kee Hawk reign.

Full details of the Hawks' climb to the top can be found in the July 27 edition of The Standard, complete with photos and descriptive game action. Don't miss this piece of Hawk history!

Thu
21
Jul

ON TO THE REMATCH! Kee softball girls post 5-2 win in semifinals to set up championship rematch with top-ranked Akron-Westfield

The Kee softball team has played its way back to the Class 1A State Championship game with a 5-2 semifinal round victory over fourth-rated Martensdale-St. Mary's Thursday evening, July 21 at Harlan Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge. That win sets up a rematch two years in the making between the second-rated Hawks and top-rated Akron-Westfield, a team that defeated Kee for the Class 1A State Championship two seasons ago.

After neither team made the State Tournament field last season, the two have played their back to a State Championship rematch that will begin at 4:55 p.m. Friday, July 22. That championship battle can be seen on Iowa Public Television as part of a five-game championship series to be broadast throughout Friday.

Catch all the action of all three Kee softball games at this year's State Tournament in words and photos in the July 27 edition of The Standard!

Wed
20
Jul

Waukon High School well represented at 2016 Shrine Bowl to be played Saturday

Mariah Hancock and Kate-Leigh Wilson selected to Cheer Squad; Peyton Hesse to play for North Squad in football classic

Waukon High School will be well represented once again for the 2016 Iowa Shrine Bowl All-Star Football Classic being played this Saturday, July 23 at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.

Graduated senior Peyton Hesse will represent Waukon football as a member of this year’s North football squad, while fellow schoolmates Mariah Hancock and Kate-Leigh Wilson have been chosen to represent Waukon cheerleading as members of the cheerleading squad as well. Wilson, however, will be unable to participate in her second year of being selected to take part in the annual classic.

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