Kee softball secures season’s first victories with home sweep of Postville, falls in two games at North Fayette Valley Classic


Kee softball senior first baseman Macy Manning takes a big lead off the bag. Manning collected a double and single in the Hawks’ Wednesday, June 2 home doubleheader with Postville, driving in three runs and scoring three as well. Photo courtesy of Maggy Weymiller. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.

The Kee softball team played a brief schedule this past week, putting half of those games in the win column to record its first wins of the 2021 season. Those victories came in convincing, mercy-rule fashion in a home doubleheader sweep of Postville Wednesday, June 2, the Hawks defeating the visiting Pirates by scores of 12-0 in just three innings and 10-0 in five frames. The Lady Hawks were then scheduled to play a couple games at the North Fayette Valley Classic in West Union Friday, June 4, first surrendering a 4-3 loss to AGWSR in an early-morning battle before falling to Osage by a 12-9 final result.

Now holding a 2-6 overall season record, including a 2-0 start to their Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) season, the Kee girls were next scheduled to play a UIC doubleheader at MFL/MarMac Monday, June 7 before hosting Clayton Ridge for the same Wednesday, June 9. The Lady Hawks will then play another doubleheader at Central Elkader Monday, June 14, host Turkey Valley for a doubleheader Wednesday, June 16 and then play in the West Delaware Tournament in Manchester Friday and Saturday, June 18-19.

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