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Off to a 0-3 start to the season and making a long bus trip to Central City to play football in the pouring rain would likely not forecast a very favorable outcome for most teams. But, for Coach Chad Winters and his Kee football team, it was quite the contrary as the Hawks brushed off all of those obstacles, along with a constant challenge from the host Wildcats, to record their first win of the 2015 season, a 28-26 triumph that went right down to the final minutes of play.
Now sporting a 1-3 overall record, 1-1 in Eight-Player District 4, the Hawks remain on the road this week to continue Eight-Player District 4 play, traveling to Cedar Valley Christian in Cedar Rapids this Friday, September 25. The Huskies have just a single win on the year and come off a 76-6 road loss at Central Elkader this past Friday.

The Kee volleyball team had a busy latter portion of the week that proved fairly successful overall, as the Hawks won four of six matches this past week. The Kee netters posted their first Upper Iowa Conference road victory of the season in four sets at Central Elkader Thursday, September 17 by scores of 25-27, 25-19, 25-21 and 25-22 before playing to the championship semifinals at the Waukon Tournament Saturday, September 19. The Hawks won two of three pool play matches at the tournament before splitting two championship bracket matches, both of Kee’s match losses at the tournament coming to the eventual tournament champion, Class 3A New Hampton.

The Kee cross country team battled through a second consecutive week of two meets, continuing a stretch of what will amount to five meets in two weeks’ time. The Hawks took part in the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15, where the boys placed 26th overall and 13th among Class 1A teams, and then placed sixth in the Central Elkader Invitational Thursday, September 17. Sophomore Nicki Wood is still the lone high school girl competing for Kee, placing in nearly the top one-third of all competitors at both meets.
The Hawks were scheduled to compete at the Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22 and will then have a week to prepare for the Tuesday, September 29 Jesup Invitational. Kee will then have just over a week until its next competition scheduled for Thursday, October 8 at New Hampton.
 

The Waukon boys cross country team took part in just a single meet this past week, competing at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15 in a meet that features both overall team scoring, as well as separate scoring for just Class 1A teams and Class 2A and Class 3A teams combined. With that double-scoring in place, the Indians ran to a fourth-place overall team finish, as well as a third-place team finish among the Class 2A and 3A teams competing at the meet.
The Indians were scheduled to host their own Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22 and then won’t compete again until Saturday, October 3 at the Crestwood Invitational being held in Cresco.

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The Waukon volleyball team experienced both ends of the broom this past week, suffering the down side of sweeping action to begin and end the week but doing their own bit of that for three match wins between those two match losses. The Indians opened the week by falling at Oelwein in three straight sets, 17-25, 11-25 and 16-25, Tuesday, September 15 before winning all three of its pool play matches but falling in the opening round of championship bracket play at the Tribe’s own Waukon Invitational Tournament Saturday, September 19.
Holding a 5-10 season record, 0-2 in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians were next scheduled to host Class 4A 11th-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 22 before hosting MFL/MarMac Monday, September 28 in a match rescheduled from September 8 and then traveling to New Hampton Tuesday, September 29.

It took the most balanced overall effort of the season for the Waukon football team to remain undefeated Friday, September 18 when the Indians faced cool, rainy weather and Dyersville Beckman, the first of back-to-back opponents from their own district who played all the way to the Class 2A State Play-Off Semifinals last season. A season-low 142 yards through the air were complemented nicely by a season-high 162 yards on the ground for the Indians, but a staunch defensive effort that limited the visiting Trailblazers to just 149 yards of total offense furthered that complete balance to result in a 14-3 victory for the Indians.

After sitting idle last week due to hot weather canceling the Tuesday, September 1 MFL/MarMac Invitational, the Kee cross country team got its busiest stretch of the season underway with two meets this past week, scheduled to be followed by two more this week. The Hawk boys finished ninth at the Clayton Ridge Invitational Tuesday, September 8 before placing 10th at the North Fayette Valley Invitational Saturday, September 12. The Hawk girls had just one runner competing at Clayton Ridge, not enough to compile a team score, and no Lady Hawks competed at North Fayette Valley.
The Hawks were scheduled to compete at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15 before taking part in the Central Elkader Invitational Thursday, September 17. They will then compete at the Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22.

The Waukon volleyball team had just a weekend tournament on its schedule this past week, the Indians playing at the annual Kepros Tournament hosted by Crestwood High School in Cresco Saturday, September 12. The Tribe netters won two of three matches in their initial pool play competition, finishing third in their four-team pool to come up short of advancing on to the tournament’s championship round of bracket play.
The Indians were next scheduled to play at Oelwein Tuesday, September 15 in their first Northeast Iowa Conference road contest before hosting their own home invitational tournament this Saturday, September 19. The volleyball Tribe will then play host to Class 4A ninth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 22 before having a week off to prepare for a road trip to New Hampton the following Tuesday, September 29.

The Kee football team opened up its Eight-Player District 3 schedule this past Friday, September 11, playing host to a powerful Turkey Valley squad. The Trojans kept the ball on the ground for the entire contest - never once attempting a pass, an effort that proved extremely effective in outgaining the host Hawks by a 504-144 total yardage count on the way to a 72-12 Kee defeat.
Off to a 0-3 start to the season, the Hawks are scheduled to hit the road to continue Eight-Player District 3 play, traveling to Central City this Friday, September 18. The Wildcats come off a 42-0 District 3 triumph at Cedar Valley Christian this past Friday, holding a 2-2 overall record on the season.

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The Kee volleyball team played through its first multi-date week of competition in the season’s early-going, playing both a dual match and its first weekend tournament of the season. The Hawks made the most of that dual match, defeating South Winneshiek at home Thursday, September 10 by scores of 25-21, 25-27, 25-19 and 25-17 before finishing third in their four-team pool by winning one of three matches at the annual Kepros Tournament at Cresco Saturday, September 12.
The Hawks will next play at Central Elkader Thursday, September 17 and then at the Waukon Tournament Saturday, September 19. Kee will then play at Postville Tuesday, September 22 and remain on the road the following week as well at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, September 29 and at Clayton Ridge Thursday, October 1.

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