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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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The Waukon girls cross country team got its busiest stretch of the season underway this past week, competing in the first two of what will be three meets within a week’s time. The Lady Indians did not come home with a team score in the uniquely-scored Dick Pollitt Go-Hawk Classic hosted by Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 8, and then finished eighth at the North Fayette Valley Invitational Saturday, September 12.
The Indians were scheduled to compete at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15 and will then prepare to host their own Waukon Invitational the following Tuesday, September 22.

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The early-season roll for the Waukon football team continued through the Indians’ final non-district game Friday, September 11, with some generosity by the host Crestwood Cadets aiding that cause early on. Three consecutive Crestwood fumbles were turned into a 22-0 Indian headstart within the first 13 minutes of the ballgame enroute to the gridiron Tribe playing on to a 40-28 victory.
The Indians have managed a top-five Class 2A ranking with their successful start to the season, and sit atop the Class 2A District 3 standings as the district’s lone undefeated team after Center Point-Urbana was blasted by North Fayette Valley, 35-0, to suffer its first loss of the season this past Friday. The Indians will open their District 3 schedule this Friday, September 18 at home against Dyersville Beckman, who comes off a 43-12 district-opening win over Oelwein this past Friday.

The Waukon boys cross country team got its busiest stretch of the season underway this past week with some book-end lowest and highest team finishes so far this season, competing in the first two of what will be three meets within a week’s time. The Indians finished seventh overall out of 18 scoring teams at the uniquely-scored Dick Pollitt Go-Hawk Classic hosted by Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 8, before edging out a team victory in the 10-team field at the TigerHawk Invitational hosted by North Fayette Valley Saturday, September 12.
The Indians were scheduled to compete at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15 and will then prepare to host their own Waukon Invitational the following Tuesday, September 22.

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The Waukon Indian home football game this Friday, September 18 will feature much more than the hosting of a highly-regarded Dyersville Beckman team, as the stadium at Waukon High School will also host members and friends of the Dave and Nancy Einck family, who will be gathered there to dedicate a new press box overlooking the stadium in honor of their late son, brother and friend, 2004 Waukon High School graduate Mitch Einck.
In a seemingly fitting full circle, the football field and track and field complex where those family members and friends once watched Mitch perform as a student-athlete at Waukon High School will now, in turn, be kept watch over by that new, larger press box that will be formally dedicated in Mitch’s memory at halftime of this Friday’s varsity football game, just over three years to the day that an accidental fall claimed his life September 16, 2012 at the tender age of 26.

The Waukon volleyball team got its 2015 season off to a very busy start with two dual matches and a weekend tournament in the Tribe’s opening week of competition this past week. Just one of those first eight matches of the Indians’ season ended up in the win column, however, as the Tribe netters opened the season with a match victory at home over Postville Tuesday, September 1 by scores of 23-25, 25-21, 25-16 and 25-16. The Indians then opened Northeast Iowa Conference play with a sweeping home loss to Crestwood Thursday, September 3 by scores of 26-28, 21-25 and 24-26 before splitting two matches and being swept in four others at the Mabel-Canton Tournament played Saturday, September 5 in Minnesota.

The Kee football team opened its home schedule Friday, September 4 and was a more than gracious host in suffering a 44-12 loss to the visiting Rockford Warriors. The host Hawks gave up two fumbles and four interceptions, four of those turnovers being capitalized on by the visiting Warriors for a majority of their touchdown total on the night, including a pair of fumbles that fueled a 30-6 outscoring of the Hawks in a fateful second quarter. The Hawks are scheduled to remain at home this Friday, September 11 to begin their Eight-Player District 3 schedule against Turkey Valley. The Trojans come off a 64-28 home loss to Riceville this past Friday but have an even, 1-1 record on the season with a season-opening win over Rockford, 58-20.

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The Kee volleyball team got its home schedule underway Thursday, September 3 by hosting both Turkey Valley and New Hampton. Both opposing teams featured a heavy dose of senior leadership that proved fateful for the host Hawks, as they won just one of six sets played in being swept in both dual matches.
The Hawks will next play host to South Winneshiek Thursday, September 10 before playing in the Kepros Tournament hosted by Crestwood High School in Cresco Saturday, September 12. Kee will then play at Central Elkader Thursday, September 17 and then the Waukon Tournament Saturday, September 19.

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