Sports

After sitting idle for two consecutive weeks, the Waukon boys and girls bowling teams finally resumed action Friday, February 1 with their Parents Night home match against Denver. Both the girls and boys squads made the most of that display in front of their parents, sweeping the visiting Cyclones by a 1968-1776 count for the girls and a 2555-2260 result for the boys.

The 2018-2019 wrestling season came to a close for all but this season’s lone senior as the Waukon wrestling team competed at the Class 2A Sectional Tournament hosted by Decorah High School Saturday, February 2. Senior Miles Hansmeier wrestled to a runner-up finish at 145 pounds to continue his season and career with advancement to this Saturday’s Class 2A District Tournament at Independence, beginning at 12 noon. Further details of Hansmeier’s next round of competition appear elsewhere on these same Sports pages in the February 6 print and e-edition of the The Standard.

The Waukon girls basketball team was only able to play one of its two scheduled games from this past week, being dealt a step backward in the Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) season championship hunt with a loss in that match-up between two of the NEIC’s three single-loss teams at home against Crestwood Saturday, January 26. That game had originally been scheduled for Tuesday, January 22 but was postponed due to winter weather, the Indians battling back furiously from a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter but coming up short in the end, 56-53.

The Waukon boys basketball team ended up with just one ballgame this past week, having a Friday, January 25 Northeast Iowa Conference match-up at Waverly-Shell Rock postponed by winter weather to Monday, February 4. The game the basketball Tribe was able to play ended up being a postponement from Tuesday, January 22 at Crestwood, and when the two teams matched up Saturday, January 26 the Indians had a nearly five-minute scoreless streak turn a second half lead into an eventual 60-50 Tribe defeat.

Now holding a 4-10 season record, the basketball Tribe was next scheduled to play at Spring Grove, MN Monday, January 28 before hosting Prairie du Chien, WI Tuesday, January 29 and then playing at Charles City Friday, February 1. Those games with Spring Grove and Prairie du Chien have been canceled due to winter weather and will not be made up.

The only game played by the Kee girls basketball team this past week proved to be a blow to the hopes of the Lady Hawks defending their Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) championship from last season, as the Kee girls fell a bit behind early at Central Elkader Friday, January 25 and had a valiant comeback effort in the second half come up just short for a 38-36 loss to the host Warriors. The loss drops the Hawks to a 13-3 season record that includes a now 10-2 UIC mark to currently stand in second place behind a yet UIC-undefeated MFL/MarMac team that still has five UIC games yet to play, including a date in Kee’s home gym this Friday, February 1.

The Kee girls were slated to also host MFL/MarMac Friday, February 1 before supposedly wrapping up their regular season with a Tuesday, February 5 home game with West Central, pending those other postponements. The Hawks will then begin Class 1A regional tournament play Tuesday, February 12.

The Kee boys basketball team ended up with a fairly busy week of three games, actually having another one on its schedule but having that Tuesday, January 22 game at Turkey Valley postponed to Monday, January 28. In the three games that were played, the Hawks were able to pick up their third win of the season in between a pair of losses. Kee’s basketball boys started the week with a 44-31 home loss to Seneca, WI Monday, January 21 before securing that win, 57-44, at Central Elkader Friday, January 25. Kee had a game at Clayton Ridge that had originally been postponed from January 14 rescheduled again from Thursday, January 24 to Saturday, January 26, the Hawks falling in that road contest by a 43-38 final result.

The Waukon wrestling team will begin its postseason tournament trail Saturday, February 2 at the Class 2A Sectional 10 Tournament hosted by Decorah High School, beginning at 12 noon. The Indians will be matched up against teams from Crestwood, Decorah, New Hampton, North Fayette Valley and Oelwein. The first-place and second-place finishers in the final team standings at the Sectional Tournament will advance on to one of eight Regional Dual Tournaments at a site to be determined.

The top two individual Sectional Tournament placewinners at each weight will also advance on to the Class 2A District 5 Tournament hosted by Independence High School Saturday, February 9 at 12 noon, where they will be matched up with the opposite first- or second-place winner from the Sectional 9 Tournament at Aplington-Parkersburg. Teams from that tournament will include Aplington-Parkersburg, BCLUW, Columbus, Dike-New Hartford, Independence and Union-LaPorte City.

The Waukon boys basketball team’s only scheduled game of this past week was actually played a day earlier than originally scheduled due to anticipated winter weather Friday, January 18. Instead, the basketball Tribe hosted Oelwein Thursday, January 17 in a Northeast Iowa Conference match-up, falling victim to a hot-shooting Husky squad that canned 15 threepoint baskets on the night from six different sources in running away with a 76-55 Indian defeat.

Now holding a 4-9 season record, the basketball Tribe was next scheduled to play at Crestwood Tuesday, January 22 and then at Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 25. The Indians will then play at Spring Grove, MN Monday, January 28 before hosting Prairie du Chien, WI Tuesday, January 29 and then playing at Charles City Friday, February 1.

The Waukon wrestling team competed in a busy latter portion of this past week, wrestling in what amounted to six dual meets in a 48-hour period. The first two of those bouts wrapped up the Indians’ Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet schedule without a win in a double-dual at Waverly Thursday, January 17, as the mat Tribe first fell to Class 3A second-rated Waverly-Shell Rock, 79-0, before also falling to Charles City by a 63-12 count. The Indian matmen then wrestled four duals at the Riceville Dual Tournament Saturday, January 19, posting wins over Central Elkader, 42-12, and Tripoli, 34-18, but also falling to New Hampton/Turkey Valley, 55-6, and to the host school, 33-18.

The Waukon girls basketball team ended up being able to play only one of its two scheduled games this past week, a Friday, January 18 game at Oelwein having to be postponed due to winter weather and ending up being rescheduled for Saturday, February 2. In the one game the Lady Indians did get to play in, they traveled to Upper Iowa University in Fayette to match up with Wapsie Valley in a non-conference make-up game from a December 1 date with Don Bosco that was canceled due to winter weather, the Indians making the most of that trip with a 54-33 win.