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The Waukon baseball team wrapped up its regular season winning two of its final three games of that pre-tournament slate this past week to bring its scheduled regular season games to a close. That final week in regular season play started with a road sweep of Crestwood Monday, July 1 by scores of 11-0 and 3-1 before Mother Nature forced a series of reschedulings that included cancellation of a Tuesday, July 2 home date with North Fayette Valley by rainy weather and a Wednesday, July 3 home game with Oelwein being called off in order to make up a final Northeast Iowa Conference game at Class 2A sixth-rated New Hampton that had been rained out as part of a Friday, June 28 doubleheader and ended up in a narrow loss, 3-1, for the diamond Tribe.

The Kee baseball team finished off its regular season this past week with three final wins before starting postseason tournament play. That final week of the regular season included an 8-3 win at Turkey Valley in the Hawks’ Upper Iowa Conference finale Monday, July 1 before Kee’s diamond dwellers wrapped up their regular season with consecutive non-conference victories at home, 10-2 over Riceville Tuesday, July 2 in a game that had been suspended from May 16 and an 8-4 triumph over Janesville Wednesday, July 3.

The Hawks wrapped up their regular season with a 24-10 overall record that includes a 13-5 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play that placed them third in this season’s final UIC team standings. They then opened Class 1A District Tournament play Saturday, July 6 at home against Edgewood-Colesburg with a 6-1 victory.

The Kee softball team wrapped up its regular season schedule this past week with a busy final week of seven games. The Hawks put four of those seven games in the win column, with those four wins all coming in Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader sweeps at home, 7-2 and 13-1 in three innings over West Central Monday, July 1 and 7-3 and 11-1 in five innings over North Fayette Valley Wednesday, July 3. The three non-conference games the Lady Hawks played this past week all ended up in the loss column, including a 6-0 loss at home to Riceville in a rain-shortened game of five innings Tuesday, July 2 and a 7-1 loss at Jesup Friday, July 5 followed by a 12-2 mercy-rule loss at home in five innings to Class 3A seventh-rated Sumner-Fredericksburg Saturday, July 6.

The Waukon softball team played through a winless final full week of its regular season schedule this past week, falling in all four of its ballgames played to currently hold an 8-17 overall record that includes a 2-12 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. The Lady Indians opened the week with a 9-4 loss at home to Oelwein Monday, July 1 before being swept in a home NEIC doubleheader with Charles City Wednesday, July 3 in a date rained out from the night before, first falling by a 15-10 result in a marathon 12 innings in game one before also falling by a 19-4 result in six innings in the nightcap. The diamond Tribe wrapped its week with a 10-5 loss to Waverly-Shell Rock Friday afternoon, July 5 in a game rescheduled from Friday, June 28 and played at Decorah.

The Waukon baseball team played to a split of what amounted to four games being played this past week, getting both those wins the first night of the week with a home doubleheader sweep of Charles City Monday, June 24 by scores of 12-6 and 10-0 in six innings. The Indians then fell to MFL/MarMac at home, 16-9, Wednesday, June 26 before falling by just a 4-3 result in a five-inning game played at Class 2A sixth-rated New Hampton that was supposed to be part of a road doubleheader Friday, June 28 but instead had its second contest postponed to this Wednesday, July 3.

The Kee baseball team was an inning shy of a perfect week of play this past week, recording three wins in four games. The Hawks first swept a home Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader from North Fayette Valley Monday, June 24 by mercy-rule results of 12-1 in five innings and 10-0 in six frames before splitting two games played at the home of the Waterloo Bucks, Riverfront Stadium, Wednesday, June 26, defeating Mount Pleasant by an 8-5 result before allowing a 12-run inning in falling by a 15-10 count to Waterloo Columbus.

Now holding a 21-10 season record that includes a 12-5 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play, the Hawks were next scheduled to play at Turkey Valley Monday, July 1 and host Riceville Tuesday, July 2 in a make-up game from May 16 and Janesville Wednesday, July 3 before opening Class 1A District Tournament play Saturday, July 6 at home against Edgewood-Colesburg.

The Waukon softball team posted one win in four games played this past week, dropping three games in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play and having its lone win come against an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) opponent. The Lady Indians first made up their Friday, June 21 postponed home game with New Hampton Monday, June 24, falling by a 2-0 result, before being swept at Decorah, 10-0 in six innings and 12-2 in five frames, Tuesday, June 25. The softball Tribe wrapped up its schedule of played games with a 5-0 win at home over MFL/MarMac Thursday, June 27 before their Friday, June 28 game at Waverly-Shell Rock was postponed by weather to Friday, June 5 in a game to now be played at 2 p.m. in Decorah.

The Kee softball team played through a schedule of just four games this past week, having the two-day Don Bosco Tournament trimmed to just one day and two games played Saturday, June 27, where the Lady Hawks fell to Hudson by a 10-2 result and to Cascade by a 22-5 final result. Prior to that tournament, the Kee girls also fell in a pair of single-run games at South Winneshiek Wednesday, June 26 in a doubleheader battle between Upper Iowa Conference unbeatens, 5-4 and 12-11.

Currently holding a 15-15 season record that now includes their first losses in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play at a 10-2 league record, the Lady Hawks were next scheduled to host West Central Monday, July 1, Riceville Tuesday, July 2 and North Fayette Valley Wednesday, July 3 before playing at Jesup Friday, July 5 and hosting Sumner-Fredericksburg Saturday, July 6. Kee’s diamond dwellers are then scheduled to begin Class 1A District Tournament play Monday, July 8 at home against Central Elkader.

The Waukon baseball team played just three games this past week and had just one of those three narrow battles end up in the win column to currently hold a season record of 6-14 that includes a mark of 3-11 in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. The diamond Tribe opened the week with a 4-3 home win over Turkey Valley Monday, June 17 before falling in two hard-fought battles at home against Decorah Wednesday, June 19 by scores of 6-4 in nine innings and 4-3. Due to unforeseen circumstances, details of those Wednesday games against Decorah will be printed in the July 3 edition of The Standard.

The Kee softball team put together a nearly perfect week on the diamond but was able to remain perfect in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play with all six of this week’s wins coming against UIC opponents. That UIC perfection included doubleheader road sweeps by double-digit margins, beginning with wins of 15-4 and 12-0 in three innings at MFL/MarMac Monday, June 17 and victories by margins of 20-5 in five innings and 14-1 in four innings at Turkey Valley Wednesday, June 19. The lone blemish on this week’s Kee results came in a 9-6 loss at Class 4A Waverly-Shell Rock Thursday, June 20, with the Lady Hawks bouncing back to hand Clayton Ridge UIC losses of 4-1 and 15-1 Friday, June 21 in games rescheduled by rain from June 12. Due to unforeseen circumstances, details of those final five games of this past week will be printed in the July 3 edition of The Standard.