Busy, undefeated week for Waukon girls basketball team involves pair of wins over Crestwood, including 44-40 opener in Class 3A regional tournament play
A “grand” moment ... Members of the Waukon girls basketball team are pictured above gathering around senior Keira McCormick to celebrate her achievement of scoring the 1,000th point of her varsity career, a moment depicted in the photo at right on this shot in the lane early in the third quarter of Waukon’s Tuesday, February 11 home win over Crestwood. McCormick becomes the fifth Waukon girls five-on-five basketball player to achieve 1,000 career points, joining all-time leading scorer Samantha (Reiser) Collins, Mary (Halvorson) Rogers, Daneshia Snitker and Annika Headington. View and find out how to purchase these photos and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
The Waukon girls basketball team played through a busy week with undefeated results this past week, bringing its regular season to a close and opening its postseason tournament trail with consecutive wins over fellow Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) squad Crestwood to clinch sole possession of second place in the final NEIC standings and also take a first successful step forward in the Class 3A Region 3 Tournament. The Lady Indians opened the week with a 46-42 win at home over La Crescent-Hokah out of Minnesota Monday, February 10 before the week’s initial win over Crestwood, 43-35 at home, Tuesday, February 11 in their final regular season game. A second match-up of the week - and third of the season - with Crestwood, Saturday, February 15 at home, advanced the bucket Tribe further into postseason play while ending the Cadets’ season with a 44-40 Waukon victory in the opening round of Class 3A Region 3 tournament play.
Now holding a 15-7 season record, including a 4-2 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play, the Lady Indians (15-7) were next scheduled to travel to Forest City Wednesday, February 19 in a Class 3A Regional Tournament semifinal match-up with the fourth-rated Forest City Indians (22-1) at 7 p.m. The winner of that semifinals match-up will advance on to the Region 3 championship game to be played Saturday, February 22 at 7 p.m. at a site to be determined, with that championship opponent emerging from a Wednesday, February 19 match-up between West Marshall (17-5) and West Delaware (14-8).
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