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The Kee girls basketball team played through a busy week of three games, with two of those contests ending up in the win column. The Lady Hawks book-ended the week with wins over the two bottom teams from the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC), winning at Postville by a 60-24 final margin Tuesday, January 21 and pouring in a 72-29 win at home over West Central Friday, January 24. In between those two victories, Kee’s girls suffered their lone loss of the week, a 58-43 defeat at home to De Soto, WI.

Now holding a 10-6 season record consisting of a 9-3 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play, the Kee girls were next scheduled to play at Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 28 before hosting Edgewood-Colesburg Thursday, January 30 and then playing at Central Elkader Friday, January 31. They will then host North Fayette Valley Tuesday, February 4 and MFL/MarMac Friday, February 7 before also hosting Spring Grove, MN Tuesday, February 11.

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The Kee boys basketball team swept its way through a busy week of three games played over four nights this past week for an undefeated stretch of competition that included double-digit wins in all three games. The Hawks opened the week with a 74-59 win at Postville Tuesday, January 21 before posting home wins on back-to-back nights, including a 65-32 victory over De Soto, WI Thursday, January 23 and an 84-24 rout of West Central Friday, January 24.

Now holding a 10-6 overall record that includes an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) mark of 8-3, Kee’s boys were next scheduled to play at Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 28 before traveling to Central Elkader Friday, January 31. They will then host UIC-leading North Fayette Valley Tuesday, February 4 and MFL/MarMac Friday, February 7 before playing at South Winneshiek Tuesday, February 11 to wrap up their regular season schedule.

The Waukon bowling teams hit the road for the first time in the new year, traveling the short distance to Decorah Friday, January 17 to compete against Viking squads with a combined 11-1 record on the season, including an undefeated Decorah girls team. Despite some valiant efforts, the bowling Indians weren’t able to add anything to the Vikings’ loss column, as the Waukon girls suffered just their second loss of the season by a 2650-2117 result against the undefeated Lady Vikings, with the Waukon boys also falling by a 2949-2182 final count.

The Waukon girls wrestling team battled through their busiest week of the season, competing on three nights out of five during the past school week, including a pair of multi-team tournaments to book-end the week. The Lady Indians began the week with a fifth-place team finish in the 13-team field of the Dubuque Senior Tournament Monday, January 13, having three wrestlers claim runner-up finishes to lead that charge.

The mat Tribe then competed in its final Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet competition of the season when Waukon traveled to Crestwood Thursday, January 16 and ended up on the short end of a 60-18 final result. The Indians wrapped up their week with their best final result of the week, and perhaps of the season, when they topped the 10-team field at the Postville Round Robin Tournament Friday, January 17, claiming three weight class championships to help win that team crown.

The Kee girls basketball team played to a split of its two games this past week, picking up a non-conference road win early in the week before falling in an Upper Iowa Conference road battle to end the week. The Lady Hawks brought home a 54-45 loss from Class 3A New Hampton Monday, January 13 before falling Friday, January 17 by a 59-42 at the home of a Turkey Valley squad much improved since Kee handed the Trojans their first loss of the season just over a month earlier.

Now holding an 8-5 season record consisting of a 7-3 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play, the Kee girls were next scheduled to travel to Postville Tuesday, January 21 before hosting De Soto, WI and then West Central on back-to-back nights, Thursday, January 23 and Friday, January 24. The Lady Hawks will then play at Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 28 before hosting Edgewood-Colesburg Thursday, January 30 and then playing at Central Elkader Friday, January 31.

The Waukon girls basketball team played through an undefeated week this past week, posting a pair of road victories to begin and end the week to remain undefeated in the new year 2025. The Lady Indians opened the week with a narrow victory at Class 4A Waterloo East Monday, January 13 by a final score of 38-33 before finishing the week pulling away from another otherwise close battle with a pair of strong middle quarters at New Hampton Friday, January 17 for a 58-36 victory.

Holding an 8-5 season record, including a 3-1 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play to start the second half of that league schedule, the Lady Indians were next scheduled to host Houston, MN Tuesday, January 21 before doing likewise with MFL/MarMac Friday, January 24. The Waukon girls will stay at home Monday, January 27 for a match-up with South Winneshiek before playing at Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, January 30 in a game rescheduled from December 19 and then hosting Decorah Friday, January 31.

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.