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The Kee baseball team had its undefeated Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) season brought to an end but won three of its battles during a five-game slate this past week. The Hawks opened the week remaining undefeated in UIC play with victories of 7-1 and 9-1 over MFL/MarMac Monday, June 13 before being paid back at Clayton Ridge Wednesday, June 15 for a pair of one-run victories earlier in the season with a 5-4 loss for Kee’s only UIC blemish so far this season. The Hawks then hosted Central City Saturday, June 18 in a non-conference doubleheader, splitting that twinbill with a 7-2 victory being paired up with a 12-5 loss to the visiting Wildcats.

by Val Meyer

The Kee softball team kept its season-long trend on track this week, continuing to rule the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) with another pair of doubleheader sweeps in league play, and continuing to wage war against some of the top teams in much larger classes during weekend tournaments in an effort to keep improving as a team. The Hawks’ UIC dominance continued its undefeated streak with twinbill winnings of 8-0 and 12-1 in five innings at home over North Fayette Valley Monday, June 13 and 10-0 in five innings and 5-0 over Edgewood-Colesburg at home Wednesday, June 15.

The Waukon baseball team battled through a week on the road and without a win, falling in five games against teams all currently sitting in the top half of the Northeast Iowa Conference, including one currently ranked in the top five of Class 2A. The Indians also lost a non-conference game to Mother Nature, as they were rained out of a Tuesday, June 14 road date at Osage that has not been rescheduled at this point.

The Tribe’s troublesome road trip got its start Monday, June 13 with a doubleheader at Oelwein that got into just four innings of game one before being rained out to a Thursday, June 16 make-up date, where the Indians fell by scores of 11-1 and 10-0 in five innings. The road did not get any friendlier, as the Tribe was dealt a 10-0 loss in six innings by Class 2A third-rated New Hampton Wednesday, June 15 and then suffered losses of 10-5 and 11-6 at Crestwood Friday, June 17.

The Waukon baseball team is scheduled to host its own annual Jeff Houg Tournament this Saturday, June 25. The Indians will begin the tournament at 10 a.m. with a first-round game against South Winneshiek, with Osage and Waterloo Columbus matching up in the second first-round game scheduled for 12 noon. The two first-round losing teams will play a consolation contest at 2 p.m., with the two winning teams slated to square off at 4 p.m. for the tournament championship.

The Waukon baseball team put together its best week of baseball so far this season, splitting a four-game schedule and picking up its first Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) win of the season. The Indians opened the week with opposite fortune in a home NEIC doubleheader with Charles City, falling to the Comets by scores of 8-5 in eight innings and 6-4 Tuesday, June 7, but reversed that result in their final two games of the week by posting a 9-4 non-conference win at Turkey Valley Wednesday, June 8 and an 8-3 NEIC triumph at home over Decorah Friday, June 10.

The Waukon softball team battled through a somewhat frustrating early part of this past week before finally getting results to flow more in its favor later in the week. The Indian diamond dwellers dropped a pair of one-run losses to start the week, 4-3 in eight innings at Decorah Monday, June 6 and 7-6 in 11 frames at South Winneshiek Tuesday, June 7, before finally getting one of those one-run results to fall in their favor, 8-7, at New Hampton Thursday, June 9. The softball Tribe then won one of three games at the annual Anamosa Tournament Saturday, June 11, falling by a 6-1 result to Dyersville Beckman to open the tournament before bouncing back with a 16-1 rout of Midland-Wyoming and then closing out the tournament with a 4-1 loss to East Buchanan.

For the second consecutive week, the Kee baseball team came up just a single game shy of being undefeated for the week, as the Hawks pieced together another 5-1 result during a six-game slate. Four of those victories helped keep the Hawks undefeated in Upper Iowa Conference play through, now, eight consecutive games, including home sweeps of Starmont by scores of 5-3 and 4-0 Monday, June 6 and of South Winneshiek by results of 4-3 and 4-1 Thursday, June 9. The Hawks finished the week with a split of a spontaneously-scheduled doubleheader at St. Ansgar Saturday, June 11, falling by a score of 10-5 before posting a 10-1 victory, after relocating two games originally scheduled for a rain-soaked Charles City field.

by Val Meyer

The Kee softball team remained perfect in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play with another pair of doubleheader sweeps this past week, but sandwiched those victories around a loss to another top 15-ranked squad from a larger class. The Hawks recorded UIC sweeps at home, 10-0 and 13-2 - both in six innings - over Starmont Monday, June 6 and 10-0 and 11-0 - both in five innings - over West Central Thursday, June 9. In between those two rolling efforts, the Hawks suffered just their third loss of the season, a 4-2 home defeat to Class 3A 12th-rated Crestwood Tuesday, June 7.

by Val Meyer

The Kee baseball team played another full schedule of games in this second week of the 2016 season, coming up one game shy of an undefeated week - that game being the final one of a six-game slate this past week. The Hawks opened the week - and their Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) season - with an undefeated sweep of four consecutive UIC games, including a doubleheader at Edgewood-Colesburg that spanned two different nights and included victories of 2-1 Tuesday, May 31 and 14-3 in five innings Wednesday, June 1. A second UIC twinbill sweep saw the Hawks pull out a pair of one-run victories over Clayton Ridge at home, 4-3 and 3-2 in eight innings, Thursday, June 2. The Hawks wrapped up the week with a 12-0 triumph in five innings at Waukon Friday, June 3 before suffering their first loss of the week, 10-9, at home against Riceville Saturday, June 4.