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Another meet turned into another victory for the Waukon girls cross country team, as the Lady Indians topped the 14-team overall scoring field at the varsity level of the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 16 for their third victory out of three team-scored meets so far this season. The Starmont Invitational tallies team scores for both the complete race of all teams involved and also the further breaking down of the team scoring for Class 1A teams only and for larger schools in Class 2A, Class 3A and Class 4A teams combined.

The Waukon girls had all five of their scored runners finish in the top 30 of the 101 runners in the complete race and in the top 15 of the 56-runner large school field to claim both team titles. Those consistent high-end placewinnings allowed the distance Tribe to edge Class 1A seventh-rated Sumner-Fredericksburg by a 71-73 count in the complete race. 

Hosting its second larger school opponent within its first three games of the season, the Waukon football team once again played a fairly strong first half but could not completely keep up that pace in the second half in falling to an undefeated West Delaware squad by a 34-6 final result at home Friday, September 12 in the grid Tribe’s final non-district game of this 2025 season. Playing the high-powered Hawks to a 0-0 shut-out through the game’s first quarter and to just a 14-6 deficit heading into the halftime break and well into the third quarter, the Indians suffered a pair of turnovers and a 20-0 outscoring over a period of about nine minutes of game time in the late third and early fourth frames to have the game’s final result slip a bit further away in the second half.

The Waukon volleyball team played a pair of true dual matches this past week, with each of them ending up with similar results of an Indian match loss in four sets despite each match featuring opposite aspects of competition. What used to be a Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) match-up at Decorah Tuesday, September 9 is now a non-conference affair following the disbanding of the NEIC at the end of this past school year, with the Lady Indians falling by scores of 20-25, 18-25, 25-22 and 21-25 to the host Vikings. Two days later, in what used to be a non-conference match, the net Tribe hosted an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) opponent Thursday, September 11 as a new member of that league, also falling in four sets to North Fayette Valley by scores of 25-20, 23-25, 18-25 and 20-25.

The Waukon girls cross country team had just one meet on its schedule this past week, running at the Bob Scott Memorial Invitational hosted by North Fayette Valley High School Thursday, September 11. Placing all five of their scored runners within the top-25 individuals of the 133-runner field, the Lady Indians tallied 72 team points to win the meet by 10 points.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to compete at Starmont Tuesday, September 16 before hosting their own home invitational September 23. Waukon’s girls will then compete at Central Springs at Manly September 25.

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Facing a second consecutive opponent ranked within the top 10 teams in the Eight-Player class, the Kee football team had to do so on the road this past Friday, September 12, playing their first away game of this season at the home of an undefeated Edgewood-Colesburg (Ed-Co) squad coming off a State Quarterfinals venture last season and two victories where the Vikings averaged a 55-21 margin of victory. The Hawks alternated nearly even quarters with frames where Ed-Co’s big play potential was on full display, as the Vikings erupted for three scoring plays of 60 yards or more and also posted a 4-0 advantage in turnovers to deal Kee its second consecutive loss, 64-14.

The start to this season’s Eight-Player District 4 schedule for the Kee football team began with the Hawks facing Easton Valley but ultimately proved to be a mountain to climb as the traditionally strong River Hawk program visited the bluffs of Lansing for a rare Thursday evening high school football game September 4. The host Hawks answered two early tallies by their top-10 rated guests, but Easton Valley continued to deliver those blows, scoring on all but its final two possessions of the ballgame while Kee fell off its earlier pace-keeping result to end up being dealt a 63-20 loss in that District 4 season opener.

The Waukon volleyball team got its 2025 season started with a pair of multi-team events, both in dual match and weekend tournament competition, and came away with three wins in a total of five matches played during its first week of competition for this season. This past week of play opened with the Lady Indians hosting both Kee and Riceville Tuesday, September 2 and limiting both of those squads to just single-digit scoring totals in each set played on the way to sweeping both guests in just two sets each. The net Tribe wrapped up its initial week of competition playing in the Starmont Tournament Saturday, September 6 and winning one of its three matches played, claiming that lone match win over the host school but also falling to both West Branch and North Fayette Valley in three-set battles.

The only meet on the schedule for the Waukon girls cross country team this past week featured a unique grade-race format at the Trent Smith Invitational hosted by Charles City Thursday, September 4. The meet featured a combined race for juniors and seniors (11th/12th grades), one for freshmen and sophomores (9th/10th grades) and another for middle school runners (7th/8th grades), with no team scores reported for this year’s meet but the Lady Indians claiming a pair of top-five individual finishes in each of those three races.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to run at North Fayette Valley Thursday, September 11 before competing at Starmont Tuesday, September 16. The distance Tribe will then host its own home invitational September 23 before competing at Central Springs at Manly September 25.

Coming off a season-opening loss a week earlier that featured a much stronger first half than played out in the second, the Waukon football team put together two very strong halves of play in evening out its season record with a 59-6 non-district win at Oelwein Friday, September 5. Behind a strong rushing attack, the Indians played to a 16-0 halftime lead before rolling even stronger to a 37-0 final shut-out stretch after an early second-half scoring exchange.

The Kee football team got its 2025 season off to a strong start, both in the opening quarter of its season-opening home game with Tripoli Friday, August 29 and eventually overall with a 52-29 triumph over the visiting Panthers. That opening quarter saw the grid Hawks erupt to a 30-0 headstart just 10 minutes into the contest before getting much more of a challenge from their Tripoli visitors for the game’s remainder but ultimately handling the task to start their fall campaign on a winning note.