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The Kee baseball team got its season off to a busy start this past week, playing three games in a span of four nights. That busy stretch proved to be fairly successful, and was just a single run - and even a single play - from going undefeated. The Hawks opened their season with a 5-4 loss at West Delaware Tuesday, May 16 before recording back-to-back victories to close out the week, including a 7-6 win at Waukon Thursday, May 18 and an 8-4 home triumph over Riceville Friday, May 19.

The end to the Waukon girls track season came at the venue where all high school track and field athletes strive to be, competing among the state of Iowa’s elite in their respective events at the Iowa High School State Track and Field Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Thursday through Saturday, May 18-20. The Lady Indians competed in five events at that season grand finale, finishing within the top 20 of the Class 2A elite in the four events that they returned to State in, including taking one of them to a medal-winning finish within the top eight of their event peers.

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The Kee girls track team had its 2023 brought to a close where every team longs to have at least some sort of representation. The Lady Hawks were well represented with five different events qualifying for the 2023 State Track Meet held Thursday-Saturday, May 18-20 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

Competing among the very best Class 1A competitors in each of those five qualified events at this season’s grand finale, the Lady Hawks finished within the top 20 in three of those five events. Although none of those Kee efforts yielded State Meet hardware with a top-eight event finish required to win a medal, one of those Kee events came about as close as one ever could, as a mere thousandth of a second prevented that dream from being realized - at least for now.

The 2023 season came to a close for the Waukon boys track and field team at the location where every high school track and field athlete wants to be, as the Indians competed among Class 2A’s elite at the Iowa High School Track and Field Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Thursday through Saturday, May 18-20. The Indians qualified seven events for this spring’s season grand finale, including four individual efforts and a trio of relays, bringing home State Meet medals in three of those events with top-eight finishes among their Class 2A  competition peers.

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The Waukon baseball team got its 2023 season underway against a nearby foe, playing host to fellow Allamakee County school Kee Thursday, May 18 in an early-season non-conference match-up. With several of their returning starters and/or most veteran players not available for the game due to competing at the State Track Meet, the depleted Indian squad battled an overall young Kee crew that had to replace nearly all its starters from last season to just a one-run final margin that came down to the final play of the game before deciding the 7-6 Waukon defeat.

The Indians were next scheduled to play at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, May 23 before hosting Starmont Wednesday, May 24 and then playing at Waverly-Shell Rock Thursday May 25. Another three-date schedule next week has the diamond Tribe hosting varsity doubleheaders against Decorah Tuesday, May 30, Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, June 1 and Charles City Friday, June 2.

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The Waukon boys golf team had its 2023 season brought to a close this past week, competing in a pair of multi-team tournaments within a couple days of one another. The first of those tournaments was the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Monday, May 8 at Crestwood, where the golf Tribe finished sixth but did record one All-Conference finisher. The Indians then had their season brought to a close tying for a seventh-place team finish at their Class 3A Sectional Tournament at Decorah Wednesday, May 10, with no players managing the required top-end individual finishes to earn further advancement down the postseason path and thus, bringing the Tribe’s 2023 campaign to an end.

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Striving for a chance to continue this 2023 track season on to the elite level, the Waukon boys track team was able to do that in seven events at its Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Monticello Thursday, May 11. Needing a top-two finish in an event to earn guaranteed qualification for this year’s State Track Meet being held at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, the track Tribe came away with one event win and three runner-up finishes to earn that automatic advancement, but as the dust settled during the next day in figuring out Class 2A’s additional “next eight” best event efforts that also qualified, the Indians ended up claiming four more qualifications in three additional events, with all those efforts pacing the way to 76 team points and a fourth-place finish in the final team scoring field of 12 teams at Thursday’s State Qualifying Meet.

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The Kee girls track team was competing to extend its 2023 season as much as possible at its Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Edgewood-Colesburg High School Thursday, May 11. That extension was accomplished in five events for the Lady Hawks, including a pair of event victories for automatic qualification for this year’s State Meet and one each of second-, third- and fourth-place finishes that gained additional at-large qualification among Class 1A’s elite at this season’s grand finale. All of those efforts led the way to 54 team points and a sixth-place team finish for the Kee girls in the final 15-team scoring finishes, while also leading to the rewriting of a pair of school records.

Competing for the opportunity to extend the 2023 season a bit further, the Waukon girls track team was able to do just that for five events involving nine of this season’s team members at the track Tribe’s Class 2A State Qualifying Meet held at Monticello Thursday, May 11. Needing at least a second-place event finish to earn automatic qualification for this year’s State Track Meet being held later this week at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, the Lady Indians claimed one event victory and two runner-up finishes to pace their advancing effort, but also had their lone third-place event finish and one of their three fourth-place results at the meet earn State Meet qualification on the way to 73 team points and a fifth-place finish in Thursday’s final scoring field of 12 teams.

The Waukon girls golf team played in just one competition this past week, playing at the home of the defending Class 2A State Runner-Up New Hampton Chickasaws Monday, May 1. The perennial power Chickasaws turned in a nine-hole team total of 191 strokes on the windy day, but the Lady Indians played with only three golfers and were unable to compile their own team score.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to play in their Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Monday, May 8 at Waverly. The Waukon girls will then play in their Class 2A Regional Tournament Friday, May 12 at New Hampton.

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