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The Kee softball team wrapped up its regular season and also completed an undefeated championship run to the Small School division crown of the newly-revamped Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) with the sweeping of a final pair of UIC doubleheaders this past week to wrap up a regular season record of 28-10 that includes an overall UIC record of 18-4. Those two UIC sweeps included a Monday, June 29 double-dip at Clayton Ridge the Lady Hawks won by mercy-rule scores of 10-0 and 12-2, both in four innings, to complete an undefeated season against Small School UIC foes, followed by a home sweep of MFL/MarMac Wednesday, July 1 by scores of 18-1 and 13-0, both in a mercy-rule four innings as well.

The Kee baseball team came within a game of completing an undefeated weekday schedule in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play at home this past week, with the Hawks’ lone loss in that UIC stretch coming Thursday, June 18 to a team that nobody has beaten yet this season. Kee opened this past week with a sweep of Postville by mercy-rule results of 10-0 in five innings and 11-1 in six innings Monday, June 15 before handling Turkey Valley, 5-1, Tuesday, June 16 and defeating North Fayette Valley by a 12-2 mercy-rule result in six innings Wednesday, June 17. That lone UIC loss of the week came to undefeated and Class 1A fifth-rated South Winneshiek Thursday, June 18 in a game where the Hawks took an early lead but couldn’t hold off the highly-regarded Warriors in suffering an 8-3 defeat. Kee was also scheduled to play two games at Osage Saturday, June 20, with coverage details of those two contests appearing in a future edition of The Standard.

The Kee softball team breezed through an undefeated weekday schedule this past week, sweeping four Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) games in a pair of doubleheaders that saw the Lady Hawks outscore their fellow Allamakee County UIC squads by a combined run total of 50-2. Kee’s diamond dandies first claimed a pair of mercy-rule wins at Postville Monday, June 15 by scores of 15-0 and 16-1 before also ending a pair of home games with Waukon early Wednesday, June 17 with victories of 11-1 and 8-0. The Kee girls were also scheduled to play four games over two days in the West Delaware Tournament this past weekend, with coverage details of those contests being printed in a future edition of The Standard.

A busy week of four consecutive nights of weekday baseball saw the Waukon baseball team win five of six games played Monday through Thursday that included a split result against respective division leaders within the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC). The Indians opened the week handing UIC-undefeated and Class 2A ninth-rated New Hampton its first two league losses of this season Monday, June 15 by scores of 4-0 and 10-3, before the Tribe’s lone home game of the week played out to an 8-1 non-conference win over Anamosa Tuesday, June 16. Another battle against another UIC-undefeated squad came right down to the final play of the game when the Indians lost a 6-5 decision at overall undefeated and Class 1A fifth-rated South Winneshiek Wednesday, June 17. The diamond Tribe also swept a UIC doubleheader at MFL/MarMac Thursday, June 18 by scores of 12-1 and 6-4.

The Waukon softball team played through a winless week of non-tournament games, scoring just a single run in five games played prior to weekend tournament action. The Lady Indians dropped an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader at home to New Hampton Monday, June 15 by scores of 9-0 and 17-0, fell at Decorah, 10-0, Tuesday, June 16, and were swept at Kee Wednesday, June 17 by scores of 11-1 and 8-0. Waukon’s girls were also scheduled to play four games in the West Delaware Tournament Friday and Saturday, June 19-20, with coverage results of those games to be reported in a future edition of The Standard.

The Kee baseball team had a comparatively light schedule this past week lightened even further by Mother Nature, as a Thursday, June 11 opportunity to play at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville against Underwood was canceled by rainy weather and is not likely to be made up this season. The three games the Hawks were able to play this past week resulted in a single win, 7-4 in a rain-shortened contest at Waukon Wednesday, June 10, before Kee took part in the Bettendorf Tournament and fell to a pair of much larger schools, 14-4 to Class 3A Davenport Assumption and 21-4 against the tournament host from Class 4A.

The Kee softball team played a total of six games this past week, putting all but one of those in the win column and having that lone loss come by just a single run to currently hold a 10-6 season record that includes a mark of 6-4 in Upper Iowa Conference play. The Lady Hawks’ lone loss of the week came right away in their first game played as they split a Wednesday, June 10 Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader at New Hampton with a 5-4 loss in eight innings followed by a 10-5 victory. A Monday, June 8 home doubleheader with Turkey Valley had been postponed to Friday, June 12 but still resulted in a Kee sweep of the Trojans by mercy-rule scores of 10-2 in six innings and 9-1 in five innings. Kee then wrapped up its week sweeping two games at the Riceville Tournament, including a 5-1 triumph over Class 3A 12th-rated Osage and an 8-4 victory over Riceville Saturday, June 13.

Although weather once again played a role in a week of Waukon baseball this past week, the Indians were able to play four games and put three of those in the win column to improve to an 8-3 season record that includes a 6-1 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play at this point in the season. The diamond Tribe had a Monday, June 8 home doubleheader with North Fayette Valley postponed to two different dates, one game of which was made up this past Friday, June 12 and resulted in a 15-3 triumph, and the other now being part of a June 29 two-game set that will also involve MFL/MarMac.

In what turned out to be its only competition of this past week, the Waukon softball team ended up on the short end of a couple narrow battles in an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader played at MFL/MarMac Friday, June 12. Originally scheduled for Monday, June 8, that original date was rained out and rescheduled, as was a Wednesday, June 10 home doubleheader with Postville that had to be rescheduled to July 2 due to wet field conditions.

In Friday’s dramatic double-dip, the Indians seemed to have the upperhand in opportunities, out-hitting the host Bulldogs by a 15-8 result but not necessarily being able to capitalize on those chances in falling by scores of 2-0 in game one and by an 11-10 result in a marathon contest that lasted 10 innings. The diamond Tribe stranded a total of 27 runners on base in the two games combined, including 14 of those in scoring position and leaving the bases loaded in two different innings.

The Kee baseball team played a half dozen games this past week and ended up winning four of those six contests. The Hawks split a pair of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) games at home with Clayton Ridge Monday, June 1, winning by an 11-10 final result before falling by a 12-1 count in the nightcap. Kee then defeated MFL/MarMac at home Wednesday, June 3 by a 7-1 final result and claimed a 15-0 mercy-rule win over Postville Thursday, June 4 before splitting another pair of games at the Madrid Invitational Tournament, falling to eventual tournament champion Estherville Lincoln Central, 8-1, in the opening round before winning the tournament’s consolation championship with a 21-0 triumph over Des Moines North.