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Ann Delaney (far right) of Lansing was honored prior to the Kee girls basketball team’s first-round Class 1A State Tournament game Monday, February 29 by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union and the Iowa Farm Bureau for being a “model of sportsmanship” for Kee High School and its community. Prior to the start of each first-round game at the Iowa High School Girls State Basketball Tournament, a fan supporting each participating team is honored after being nominated by their respective school. Along with each honored fan receiving a certificate, each represented high school also receives a $250 award to its scholarship fund in the name of the honored fan. Delaney is pictured above with her honored fan counterpart from Burlington-Notre Dame and Iowa High School Girls Athletic Union Senior Associate Director Karon Brown.
 

For the second consecutive season the Waukon boys basketball team posted an imbalance on the more favorable side of its season record, compiling a 12-10 overall record. That overall mark included a 7-5 effort that placed the Indians in third place in the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standings.
“We had a winning record for the second season in a row, which hasn’t happened since the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons,” Waukon boys basketball coach Jed Hemann said. “Our younger levels had some solid records as well. We had a strong senior class, but we will also return five letterwinners next season and our expectations will be for us to be even better next season.”

Joe Frieden, Carter Fuhrman and Miles Howe each pick up a win to help Team Iowa score 31-16 victory

The 2015-2016 Waukon wrestling team battled its way to a 7-16 season record, fighting through not only another tough Northeast Iowa Conference schedule but also another season without a full line-up. That taxing tandem kept the Indians from posting a Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet victory for the fifth consecutive season.

The Kee girls basketball team had its 2015-2016 season brought to a close at a location where any other team would want to - the State Tournament, falling by a 56-44 count to Burlington-Notre Dame Monday, February 29 in the opening round of the Class 1A season grand finale. The Hawks gave the State-savvy Nikes all they wanted for the first three and a half quarters of the contest before the final result got away from them late in the fourth quarter. Find complete coverage of the Lady Hawks’ State Tournament efforts, including photos and game details, in the March 2 issue of The Standard. Find additional photos under the Photo Gallery link on The Standard’s website, www.waukonstandard.com.

In observance of the newly-founded Our Food Link program, formerly recognized as Food Check-Out Week, Allamakee County Farm Bureau sponsored its annual grocery cart races that took place at Fareway in Waukon Wednesday, February 24. Participating were teams from Pro Build and Waukon Feed Ranch. The two teams were timed while gathering every item on their shopping list and trying to beat the other team through the check-out counter. The team from Waukon Feed Ranch finished with the fastest time and won the challenge. The two teams gathered two carts full of grocery items, perishable and nonperishable. Items collected totaled $215.46, and they were then donated to the Allamakee County Relief Office.

Anyone taking a blind look at the Class 1A State Tournament first-round match-up between the Kee girls basketball team making its first-ever State Tournament appearance and the team from Burlington-Notre Dame (BND), the Class 1A 2014 State Champion making its fourth consecutive trip to that season grand finale, certainly had their eyes opened wide for at least three and a half quarters of that mid-day opening round battle Monday, February 29.

Howe, Fuhrman, Frieden to hit the mat one final time

This spirit banner has been printed to help celebrate and commemorate the Kee High School girls basketball team’s first State Tournament qualification in program history. The banner is made possible through the much appreciated support of a number of area sponsors and has been distributed throughout the community at those sponsor locations, as well as at Kee High School in Lansing. The Standard extends a thank you to those generous sponsors and encourages everyone to do the same when you stop in and patronize their place of business.
The fifth-rated and 22-2 Lady Hawks will be taking on fourth-rated and 23-1 Burlington Notre Dame in Class 1A State Tournament action Monday, February 29 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, beginning at 11:45 a.m. Good luck to the Hawks!

The Makee Manor location just north of Waukon on Highway 9 had the latest chapter of its history completed Monday, February 15 to make way for its next installment. The Makee Manor building that had first been constructed as part of the most recent facility in 1935, was expanded in 1976 and remodeled in 1997 was torn down Monday in preparation for construction of the new Allamakee County Public Safety Center. Quad County Excavating, owned and operated by Frank Mahr and Reggie Berns, took to the task of tearing down the brick structure early that President’s Day morning and had the building reduced to rubble by late afternoon. Allamakee County Sheriff Clark Mellick said demolition of the building was anticipated to take part over two days but went smoothly enough to be completed in a day.