Kee boys basketball team has season ended with first-round loss to Turkey Valley
Kee boys basketball senior Danny Brennan takes the ball to the basket in the Hawks’ 49-42 loss to Turkey Valley in the opening round of Class 1A District Tournament play at Postville Thursday, February 16. Brennan led all scorers in the contest with 18 points, pushing him into the number-four spot on the Kee boys basketball career scoring list with 1,031 points, just two points ahead of 2006 Kee graduate Gabe Schultz. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The third time was not charmed when the Kee boys basketball team faced off against fellow Upper Iowa Conference squad Turkey Valley in the opening round of Class 1A District Tournament play Thursday, February 16 at Postville High School. But it certainly looked like it could have been and, at the very least, was improved from the previous two match-ups. Having fallen to the Trojans by margins of 13 points after suffering at least one double-digit outscoring quarter in each of their two regular season match-ups, the Hawks never trailed at the end of any of the game’s first three quarters and remained tied with just over two minutes left, only to suffer a 9-2 final outscoring in those final two minutes to have their season ended by a 49-42 defeat.
Neither team managed more than a five-point advantage until the game’s final minute, when Turkey Valley capped off a six-for-eight free throw shooting finale to help end the Hawks’ season. That final stretch accounted for half of the Trojans’ 12-for-19 free throw effort in the ballgame that proved to make up much of the game’s final margin when compared to Kee’s seven-for-14 result at the charity stripe. The Hawks were also outscored at the three-point line, 15-6, but made up a majority of that difference with a stronger interior and dribble-drive effort to the hoop.
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