Waukon softball team battles trio of top-15 ranked teams to the end but comes up short against all three NEIC opponents
Pair of hits and runs driven in ... Waukon softball eighth grade designated player Kloe Hemmersbach slides into third base ahead of the tag in the Indians’ 9-6 home loss to Decorah Tuesday, June 23. Hemmersbach pounded out a team-high two singles and drove in two runs in the ballgame. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon softball team had another week in this already abbreviated season cut even shorter once again, as Mother Nature forced postponement of the final game of an original four-game schedule, a Friday, June 26 Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) contest at Waverly-Shell Rock. Prior to that postponement, the Indians battled three other NEIC squads, all of them ranked within the top 15 of their respective classes, and all three of those games avoiding the win column by differing degrees.
The Indians first fell to Class 4A 12th-rated Decorah at home Tuesday, June 23 by a 9-6 final result before suffering a similar fate at home to Class 4A ninth-rated Charles City, 14-7, Wednesday, June 24. The softball Tribe ended up wrapping up its week Thursday, June 25 with a 9-0 loss at Class 3A 13th-rated Crestwood in a game rescheduled from Monday, June 22 due to weather, that game completing the gauntlet of NEIC competition this past week for the Indian diamond dwellers.
With that Friday, June 26 date at Waverly-Shell Rock postponed to an unknown date as of yet, the Lady Indians were next scheduled begin their second half of this abbreviated 2020 season by playing at Oelwein Tuesday, June 30, hosting New Hampton Wednesday, July 1 and then playing at Decorah Friday, July 3. The softball Tribe’s final week of the regular season will include back-to-back nights of competition, hosting Crestwood Monday, July 6 and then Charles City Tuesday, July 7 before hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Thursday, June 9, with the Indians’ other game with Waverly-Shell Rock still pending rescheduling.
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