Kee baseball team has undefeated week of competition denied by lone loss to sixth-rated Alburnett in final game of busy week
Firing to first ... Kee baseball sophomore second baseman Landon Reams fires a throw to first base in the Hawks’ home doubleheader sweep of Clayton Ridge Tuesday, June 30. Reams scored two runs and drove in another in the two Kee victories. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website. Photo by Maggy Weymiller.
The Kee baseball team was within one final game of posting an undefeated week during a busy, seven-game schedule this past week, that lone loss coming to one of Class 1A’s most highly-regarded squads in sixth-rated Alburnett by a 12-3 result at home Friday, July 3. Prior to that lone loss of the week, the Hawks posted six straight wins that began with a 15-1 win at North Fayette Valley in five innings before game two of that Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader was suspended in the fifth inning with Kee holding a 14-4 advantage.
Kee also posted sweeps of 12-2 and 10-0 in five innings at home over Clayton Ridge Tuesday, June 30 and over Oelwein Wednesday, July 1 by scores of 5-4 and 10-0 in five innings in a non-conference doubleheader played at Riverfront Stadium in Waterloo. A 20-0 Kee win in four innings at Turkey Valley Thursday, July 2 kept the Hawks’ undefeated week going before Friday’s 12-3 loss at home to sixth-rated Alburnett.
Holding a 10-5 season record that includes a mark of 7-4 against Upper Iowa Conference teams, the Hawks were next scheduled to play three consecutive nights of baseball that will begin with hosting North Fayette Valley Tuesday, July 7 to also finish off a June 29 suspended second game. Kee will also make up their June 26 road doubleheader at MFL/MarMac Wednesday, July 8 and then play at Riceville Thursday, July 9 before starting postseason tournament play Saturday, July 11 in Calmar, with further details of Kee’s postseason possibilities being printed in a shaded box elsewhere on the Sports pages in the July 8, 2020 print and e-edition of The Standard.
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