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The first two games of the new year for the Waukon boys basketball team yielded different results on the first two Friday nights of 2025. The Indians first fell at Oelwein Friday, January 3 by a 55-49 final result before pulling away from another close battle at Crestwood Friday, January 10 for a 58-46 victory.

Now holding a 3-5 overall record, including a 2-2 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play, Waukon’s boys were next scheduled to travel to Prairie du Chien, WI Tuesday, January 14 before back-to-back nights playing at New Hampton Friday, January 17 and then playing Wapsie Valley Saturday, January 18 in the Upper Iowa University Shootout hosted in Fayette. They will then host Independence Monday, January 20 before doing likewise with MFL/MarMac Friday, January 24.

The start to the new year has not been kind to the Kee boys basketball team, as the Hawks have fallen in all three of their games played so far in 2025, with all three of those losses coming to Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) foes. The first two of those Kee losses came against teams they entered the new year sharing the UIC lead with without a loss in league play prior to the holiday break, falling at overall undefeated North Fayette Valley Friday, January 3 by a 58-41 final result before also falling at UIC-undefeated MFL/MarMac Tuesday, January 7, 65-57 and closing out the week with a 51-40 loss at home to South Winneshiek Friday, January 10.

The Waukon boys wrestling team returned from its holiday break with its busiest week of the season, competing in what amounted to six dual meets and a weekend tournament over the course of five days. The Iowa/Wisconsin Border Battle hosted by Postville Tuesday, January 7 had been postponed from December 19, with the Indians sweeping through each one of their four duals against Wisconsin opponents at the rescheduled event, including wins of 81-0 over Boscobel/Wauzeka-Steuben, 53-19 over De Soto, 78-6 over River Ridge, and 77-0 over Viroqua.

The mat Tribe is next scheduled to wrestle at Crestwood again Thursday, January 16 in dual meet action before competing in the Cascade Tournament Saturday, January 18. The Indians will then host North Fayette Valley Thursday, January 23 before wrestling in the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Saturday, February 1 at Charles City and the competing in a final dual meet Friday, February 7 at MFL/MarMac.

The start to the new year 2025 wasn’t exactly happy for the Kee girls basketball team, as the Lady Hawks returned from their holiday break to lose the first three of four games they played to start the new year over the past week-plus. Those three consecutive losses included the Kee girls’ first defeats in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play, as the Hawks first fell at North Fayette Valley, 53-47, Friday, January 3 and suffered a similar fate, 50-49, at MFL/MarMac in a Tuesday, January 7 clash that went right down to the wire. The Kee girls finished their recent start to the new year with back-to-back home games, suffering a third consecutive loss, 59-37, to Class 4A Decorah Thursday, January 9 before breaking that new year skid with a 49-32 UIC win over South Winneshiek Friday, January 10.

The Waukon girls wrestling team returned to the mat before returning to school from the recent holiday break, competing in the large, all-day Osage Tournament Thursday, January 2. With a total of 12 young ladies competing in the varsity level of the tournament and three more at the junior varsity level, the Lady Indians had four of their mat members wrestle to top-eight placewinnings recognized in the varsity tournament to lead the way to 43 team points and a 14th-place team finish in the 20-team tournament field.

Waukon’s wrestling ladies are next scheduled to host Charles City, South Winneshiek and Caledonia, MN Thursday, January 9 and then compete in the Central Elkader Tournament Friday, January 10. The Lady Indians will then compete in the Dubuque Senior Tournament Monday, January 13 before wrestling at Crestwood Thursday, January 16 and then Friday, January 17 at Postville.

The Kee boys basketball team was only able to play one game prior to the early print deadline for this week’s edition of The Standard due to the Christmas holiday. That single game proved to be the continuation of an early-season roll the Hawks have been putting together against fellow Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) squads thus far this season, as they erupted to another double-digit headstart on the way to a fourth consecutive UIC victory by at least 30 points, this one being a 74-36 home triumph over Clayton Ridge.

The Waukon girls wrestling team was able to fit in just one competition this past week prior to the early print deadline for this week’s edition of The Standard due to the Christmas holiday. The Lady Indians hosted both Decorah and Riceville in a double-dual Tuesday, December 17, falling to the Class 1A top-rated Vikings by a 60-15 end result before recording a dual win over the visiting Wildcats by a 54-15 final count. Decorah also took care of Riceville by a 66-9 tally in the other dual contested on the mat that night.

The Waukon boys wrestling team made its season debut in front of its hometown fans and came away with a split result in its double-dual event featuring Decorah and Riceville Tuesday, December 17. The Indians first surrendered a 57-21 defeat to the visiting Vikings before wrestling Riceville to a 45-28 victory in the nightcap dual. Decorah handed Riceville a 63-18 defeat in the other dual wrestled at the event by those two squads.

In its only game played prior to the early print deadline for this week’s edition of The Standard due to the Christmas holiday, the Kee girls basketball team continued its early-season roll over its Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) foes, recording a third consecutive UIC victory where they surpassed 60 points on the scoreboard while limiting their foe to a score in the 20s. The Clayton Ridge Eagles became that latest doubled-up victim in a Tuesday, December 17 home match-up, as the Lady Hawks recovered from an early deficit where they allowed their Clayton Ridge guests their only double-digit quarter scoring of the ballgame before dominating the game’s remainder on the way to a 61-22 triumph.

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The Kee boys basketball team played through a busy week of three games this past week, putting two of those games in the win column, and each in a big way. The Hawks opened the week falling in an intra-county clash at home with Waukon by a 68-51 final result Monday, December 9, but then bounced back with two of their highest team scoring totals in several years, handling Postville at home with an 83-31 victory Tuesday, December 10 for the highest Hawk point total since consecutive 89- and 90-point games in February of 2022. Kee then rolled to even greater production to end this past week in a 105-52 romp at West Central Friday, February 13, scoring a new program record 74 points in the first half of the contest but coming up shy of the program’s single-game mark of 127 points.