Sports

There will be  a cross country camp Monday through Friday, August 5-9 for boys and girls entering grades 7-12 in the Allamakee Community School District. As always, there is no fee for the camp, which will start at 6 p.m. at the Waukon High School cross country course.

Boys and girls entering seventh grade will need to have their completed physical form turned in to the junior high office, or they must bring them to camp, before they will be allowed to participate. All other grades can use their physical exam from the last school year for camp. Participants should bring a completed registration form to the first day of camp, August 5.
 

The Waukon High School and Middle School football coaching staffs will be hosting the 2019 Waukon Indian Middle School Football Camp August 13-15. The camp, run by the Waukon football coaching staffs with help from high school players, is a non-contact camp aimed at teaching the fundamentals of football offensive and defensive play.

Participants should plan to attend camp in shorts and a t-shirt, and should bring football cleats. Camp will take place at the middle school practice football field west of the Waukon High School parking lot.

Saturday, July 6, Harpers Ferry Boosters, Inc. hosted the Firecracker 5K Run/Walk. Over 150 runners and walkers were up early that Saturday morning for the annual Fourth of July holiday event which draws participants not only from all over Iowa and neighboring states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois but also from California and Alabama. Just before the 8 a.m. start time, Harpers Ferry Mayor Bill Nation welcomed everyone and reminded them that the new splash pad right next to the finish line would be running when they reached the end.

Sheila Diggins, President of Harpers Ferry Boosters, Inc., thanked everyone for participating, all the sponsors for their support and wished everyone a great race. When Kaylee Bachman, one of the runners, finished her impressive singing of the National Anthem, the horn sounded and the runners were off.

Matching up for a fifth time this season with the fellow Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) squad, South Winneshiek, that had accounted for half of its losses during the regular season - including a trio of single-run defeats in each of their three latest battles on the ballfield, the Kee baseball team was looking to reverse that sweeping trend in its Class 1A District 6 semifinals contest with the Warriors Tuesday, July 16 at the home of that only team to defeat the Hawks in UIC play this season. Through five-and-a-half innings, the baseball Hawks looked to be on their way to finally reversing their Warrior fortune, holding a 2-0 lead over South Winn, but the Warriors managed a two-run rally in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game and then pulled off some extra-inning magic to, once again, escape from the Hawks by a fourth consecutive single-run result, ending Kee’s baseball season with a 3-2 defeat in eight innings.

If a loss could feel anything at all like a win, the Waukon baseball team may have experienced just that in its Class 2A District 4 semifinal match-up at Cascade Tuesday, July 16 - and for all but the first inning, it was a win. After gifting the host Cougars a 3-0 headstart in the bottom of the first inning, the Indians not only shut down Cascade’s offense for the game’s final five frames but also used half of their 6-4 hit advantage, along with a bit of Cougar help, to score a pair of third-inning runs and then further battle the host squad all the way to the very end, only to have their season ended by just a 3-2 final margin.

The Kee softball team both began and ended its postseason journey within a couple days, the softball Hawks splitting their first two games in Class 1A Region 7 tournament play to have their 2019 campaign brought to a close in the quarterfinal round of their postseason path. The Lady Hawks first opened the tournament with a 16-0 rout of winless Postville in just three innings at home Monday, July 8 before suffering their first loss to Turkey Valley since the 2013 season, an 8-2 home defeat in the Class 1A Region 7 quarterfinals Wednesday, July 10.

The Waukon softball team had its 2019 season brought to a close in the opening round of its Class 3A Regional Tournament, falling at the home of fellow Northeast Iowa Conference squad Crestwood Wednesday, July 10 by a score of 3-0. The Indians had just closed out their regular season against the same Cadets just a week earlier, falling by scores off 11-1 and just 2-1, with this postseason opener being closer to that second result but the Indians still struggling to mount much offense against Crestwood.

The loss completed the Tribe’s 2019 campaign with a 14-19 overall record that includes a 5-13 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play that placed the Indians fifth in the final seven-team NEIC standings. Crestwood’s victory over Waukon advanced the Cadets to the Class 3A Region 6 semifinals, where they lost at eighth-rated Anamosa Friday, July 12 by a 3-0 final result to have their season ended.

The Kee baseball team both began and ended this past week with dates that involved victories over Turkey Valley, the first of those further clinching a second-place finish in the final Upper Iowa Conference standings and the second getting the Hawks’ postseason journey successfully underway. The Kee boys opened the week at Turkey Valley, sweeping two games as part of a triangular event Monday, July 8, 12-2 in five innings over the Trojans and 3-2 over West Fork. A Tuesday, July 9 non-conference date at Riceville was postponed to Thursday, July 11, with the Hawks hanging a 14-1 mercy-rule win over the host Wildcats to wrap up their regular season with a 23-8 season record that includes a 10-2 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play.

The Waukon baseball team pieced together just its second win streak of the season, wrapping up its regular season and beginning its postseason in victorious fashion this past week. Prior to that streak, the Indians fell to Class 4A Dubuque Senior at the University of Dubuque baseball field Tuesday, July 9 before closing out their regular season like they started it, posting a non-conference win, 13-3 in five innings, at Postville Wednesday, July 10 in a game postponed from Friday, July 5.

The Waukon baseball team played through a week outside the win column in three games against some of the more traditional powers in Iowa high school baseball at some unique sites this past week. The Indians first fell to West Delaware, 13-3 in five innings, at the Mt. Mercy University baseball field in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, June 2 before playing in the Waterloo Columbus Tournament Saturday, June 6 at Riverfront Stadium in Waterloo - home of the Waterloo Bucks, where the baseball Tribe forged a pair of late comeback efforts that just missed their mark, first falling to the host school, 7-4, in the opening round and then coming up just short against Class 1A second-rated Martensdale-St. Mary’s, 6-5, in the tournament’s consolation game.