Two losses for Waukon girls basketball team include 73-70 in double OT at MFL, 68-49 to native stand-out’s Wahlert squad
Offensive leader ... Waukon girls basketball junior Breckan Stewart soars to the basket around a Dubuque Wahlert defender in the Indians’ 68-49 home loss to the Golden Eagles Tuesday, November 29. Stewart scored a team-high 14 points in the contest and also led the team with four assists, while also grabbing three rebounds. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
Waukon native still a winner at “home” ... Dubuque Wahlert head coach Kris Spiegler, a former stand-out player for the Waukon girls basketball team, gives direction to her team in the Tuesday, November 29 Indian loss at home, 68-49, to Spiegler’s Golden Eagles. A 1978 graduate of Waukon High School, Spiegler held the Waukon girls basketball career scoring record with a total of 2,481 points as a forward in the six-on-six style of play, a total that still stands as the second-most points ever scored by a Waukon girls basketball player. View and find out how to purchase this photo and more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
Tribe’s second-leading scorer Kris Spiegler guides Golden Eagles past her alma mater
The Waukon girls basketball team had a busy early part of this past week for its only competition of the week, ending up on the short end of back-to-back nights of results in non-conference action. The Lady Indians had a Monday, November 28 road contest at MFL/MarMac ripped away at the very final buzzer in a 73-70 double overtime heartbreaker against the Bulldogs before having one of the best Waukon girls basketball players in program history return to her alma mater as a head coach Tuesday, November 29 and have her Class 3A 15th-rated Dubuque Wahlert squad hand the bucket Tribe a 68-49 defeat.
The Indians are next scheduled to play another pair of back-to-back nights of competition to end this week, hosting Caledonia, MN Thursday, December 8 and then traveling to Crestwood to open Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play Friday, December 9 in a girl/boy quadrangular. They will then host New Hampton in another NEIC girl/boy match-up Tuesday, December 13 before doing likewise with Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, December 16 and then playing Dubuque Hempstead at Upper Iowa University in Fayette Saturday, December 17.
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