Kee girls basketball team has season brought to a close with 37-30 loss in tough Region 5 championship game battle against Dunkerton
Leads with double-digit scoring ... Kee girls basketball junior Addison Winters pulls up for a shot in the lane in the Lady Hawks’ 37-30 loss to Dunkerton in the Class 1A Region 5 championship game played Wednesday, February 26 at New Hampton. Winters led the Lady Hawks with her 12 points. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
The Class 1A Region 5 championship game was the only Class 1A “Sweet Sixteen” match-up this season not to feature any of the small schools’ top-15 ranked teams, as the Kee girls basketball team and the Dunkerton Raiders were two of just four unranked teams remaining in the championship round of each of Class 1A’s eight regional tournaments when they took to the court Wednesday, February 26 at New Hampton High School. In addition to their unranked status, the two teams also brought other similarities into that Region 5 title tilt, including nearly identical win-loss records, nearly equal winning streaks over the past month and the fact that each of them had defeated another of Class 1A’s top-10 ranked teams to advance to this match-up - the Lady Hawks picking off fifth-rated Riceville, 51-42, and the Lady Raiders doing likewise to 10th-rated East Buchanan, 50-40.
The Lady Hawks finished their 2024-2025 campaign with a 19-7 season record consisting of a 13-3 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play that left them in third place in the final UIC standings. With its win over Kee, Dunkerton earned the right to play in the Class 1A State Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, where the Raiders will be playing for just the second time in program history in that season grand finale, with the last time being in 2008 when they split just two games played. Dunkerton (17-7) enters this year’s eight-team Class 1A State Tournament as the number-eight seed and the only team not ranked within the top eight teams in Class 1A, and they will be matched up with top-seeded and top-ranked Council Bluffs - St. Albert (22-1) Wednesday, March 5 at 1:30 p.m.
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