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A final busy stretch prior to the holiday break for the Kee girls basketball team saw the Lady Hawks play three games over a five-day span and put two of those three games in the win column. The only loss in that pre-holiday series came to Class 3A 14th-rated Center Point-Urbana, 52-48 in overtime, in a game that was recently scheduled for Monday, December 22. On each side of that lone loss that was close to not even happening, Kee’s girls posted a pair of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) victories at home, including a 55-49 win over UIC newcomer Crestwood Friday, December 19 and a 48-32 triumph over Central Elkader Tuesday, December 23 in a game rescheduled from December 9 due to winter weather.

The Kee boys basketball team entered the holiday break in the grips of a five-game non-winning streak, falling in two more games that included one on each side of the final weekend before this year’s holiday break began. The Hawks first fell at home to Crestwood by a 77-40 final result Friday, December 19 before suffering a 61-42 home loss to Central Elkader Tuesday, December 23 in a game rescheduled from a December 9 winter weather postponement.

The Hawks will return to court action following the holiday break Tuesday, January 6 to play at New Hampton before hosting Waukon Friday, January 9. They will then play at South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 13 before playing back-to-back games at home, including Friday, January 16 against MFL/MarMac and Saturday, January 17 against Valley Lutheran.

In its only competition of the week prior to the holiday break from school, the Waukon girls wrestling team took part in another large tournament event when the Lady Indians competed in the Bubba Randles Winter Classic hosted by Cedar Rapids Prairie Saturday, December 20. A total of 26 teams involving nearly 200 wrestlers were competing in the tournament, and the Indians had 11 wrestlers taking to the mat for them, with four of those mat ladies bringing home placewinnings within the top eight of their respective weight class to help the mat Tribe tally 47.5 team points and finish 17th in the final team standings.

The Waukon girls basketball team played a single game to start this past week, hosting a single-win Clayton Ridge squad Tuesday, December 16 and taking care of business fairly easily. Holding the visiting Eagles scoreless through the entire first quarter of play, the bucket Tribe’s defense didn’t allow Clayton Ridge to score more than seven points in any of the game’s four frames while tallying double digits in each period to end up with a 49-15 win.

The Lady Indians had a Thursday, December 18 home game with Decorah postponed to February 5 due to winter weather and were also scheduled to play at West Central Friday, December 19, with results of that game to be printed in the December 31 edition of The Standard due to an earlier print deadline. The Waukon boys will return to the court after the holidays with a Saturday, January 3 non-conference game against Grand Meadow, MN at Luther College in Decorah.

The Waukon boys basketball team continued its winning ways to start the season, as the Indians added another win to its early-season undefeated stroke when they hosted Clayton Ridge in Upper Iowa Conference play Tuesday, December 16. Suffering its only deficit very early in the first half, and holding off an Eagle charge early in the second half, the bucket Tribe survived both of those three-point-aided efforts to remain undefeated on the season with a 56-41 victory.

The Indians had a Thursday, December 18 home game with Decorah postponed to February 5 due to winter weather and were also scheduled to play at West Central Friday, December 19, with results of that game to be printed in the December 31 edition of The Standard due to an earlier print deadline. The Waukon boys will return to the court after the holidays with a Saturday, January 3 non-conference game against Grand Meadow, MN at Luther College in Decorah.

The Waukon girls and boys bowling teams bowled a second consecutive meet at home this past week, this time hosting North Fayette Valley (NFV) Friday, December 19. As similar as their second consecutive meet at home was the end results for the bowling Indians, as the Waukon girls claimed another win, 2158-2028, and the Indian boys fell by a 1913-2225 result.

The Waukon bowlers will return to the lanes for back-to-back nights of competition after the holidays, bowling at Denver Thursday, January 8 and then hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 9 in a meet rescheduled from a December 5 weather postponement. The Indians will then host Decorah Friday, January 16 before taking part in the North Fayette Valley Baker Tournament Tuesday, January 20 and then competing at Oelwein Friday, January 23.

The Waukon girls wrestling team had this past week’s schedule trimmed to just a single weekend tournament date, as a quadrangular event at Janesville scheduled for Tuesday, December 9 was called off due to winter weather and has been postponed to Thursday, January 8. That lone competition of last week for the Indian mat ladies came at the South Winneshiek Tournament that took place at Luther College in Decorah Friday, December 12, where the Waukon girls compiled 88 team points on the strength of one individual champion and a pair of fourth-place individual finishes to end up in sixth place in the final team standings that involved 27 squads from throughout the Midwest.

The Waukon boys basketball team was limited to just a single game this past week after a Tuesday, December 9 game at Crestwood was postponed by winter weather and has been rescheduled for January 8. In the game the Indians were able to play this past week - a Friday, December 12 home game against North Fayette Valley (NFV), they were also able to keep their undefeated start to the season intact, overcoming a first quarter deficit with consistent outscoring efforts in the game’s final three frames to pull away to a 52-35 home victory over the visiting TigerHawks.

The Kee boys basketball team ended up playing just one game this past week, as a Tuesday, December 9 home game against Central Elkader was postponed by winter weather to Tuesday, December 23. The lone contest the Hawks did play ended up not quite going their way, as they traveled to Clayton Ridge Friday, December 12 and came home with a 73-65 defeat to suffer their first loss on the season, battling back from an early deficit to hold a brief lead before halftime and nearly pulling off another comeback effort late in the contest.

The Hawks were next scheduled for a busy week, playing De Soto, WI Monday, December 15 at Prairie du Chien, WI before playing at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, December 16 and hosting Crestwood Friday, December 19. Kee’s boys are slated to make up that December 9 home postponement against Central Elkader Tuesday, December 23.

The Waukon girls and boys bowling teams returned to the lanes after being idled last week by a weather postponement, hosting their first meet of the season when New Hampton came to town Friday, December 12 to bowl at Grumpy’s Lanes. The bowling Indians split that home match-up, as the Waukon girls posted a 2247-1557 win over the visiting Chickasaws but the boys ended up on the other side of their result to suffer a 1962-2681 loss to their New Hampton bowling counterparts.

The Waukon bowlers are next scheduled to wrap up their pre-holiday schedule with another home meet Friday, December 19 against North Fayette Valley. They will return to the lanes for back-to-back nights of competition after the holidays, bowling at Denver Thursday, January 8 and then hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 9 in a meet rescheduled from that December 5 weather postponement.