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The Waukon girls basketball team ran the gauntlet of playing the top two teams in the Northeast Iowa Conference this past week, falling to both but in markedly different ways. The Indians first battled Class 3A second-rated Crestwood to overtime before falling by a 69-56 defeat on the road, and then were held to their lowest scoring total since December of 2016 in falling at home to Class 4A ninth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock by a 46-20 final result Friday, January 31.

Sophomore Reagan Mudderman rewrites Kee five-player scoring record with 34 points in win at NFV

The Iowa Football Coaches Association (IFCA) has announced its Regional Coach of the Year award winners for the 2019 Iowa High School football season. Waukon head football coach Chad Beermann was honored as the Class 2A Region 1 Coach of the Year, joining a pair of other area coaches, Dan Anderson of MFL/MarMac (Class A Region 1) and Mark Scott of Turkey Valley (8-Player Region 1) in receiving this year’s honor. In his seventh season at the helm of the Waukon football program, Coach Beermann guided the Indians to a 12-1 season record and a Class 2A State Runner-Up finish during its 2019 campaign, a season that included a second consecutive undefeated Class 2A District 4 championship for the Indians and the program’s first undefeated regular season since the 1950s - the first ever for the program in the Iowa high school football play-off era that began in the 1970s.
 

The Waukon girls basketball team faced a busy past week of competition due to some postponements from earlier in the season, but then had a winter weather postponement lighten up that week just a bit. The bucket Tribe opened the week Tuesday, January 21 with a 45-42 comeback win in a make-up game at New Hampton from Friday, January 17 before also making up a November 22 home date with Kee Thursday, January 23 and pulling away in the second half to a 54-31 win. The Indians were supposed to also host Oelwein Friday, January 24 but had that game postponed by winter weather to a date yet to be determined.

The Kee girls basketball team split its past week of competition, putting one of two games this past week on each side of the win-loss column. The Lady Hawks opened the week with a 51-18 victory at home over a Clayton Ridge team with just two wins on the season Tuesday, January 21 before making up an early-season rescheduled contest at Class 3A Waukon Thursday, January 23 and coming out on the short end of a 54-31 final result.

The Waukon wrestling team battled through a busy weekend of competition this past week with back-to-back days on the mat being its only competition for the week. Those consecutive days of competition included wrapping up the mat Tribe’s Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet season without a win after a 72-9 defeat at Charles City Friday, January 24 before the Indians took part in the Riceville Tournament Saturday, January 25, winning two of their five duals wrestled in that duals tournament event.

The Waukon boys basketball team faced one of its busiest schedules of the season this past week, but had a late-week winter storm trim that slate just a bit, postponing the Indians’ Friday, January 17 home game with New Hampton. Prior to that postponement, the basketball Tribe did end up playing a pair of games, handling a pair of Upper Iowa Conference opponents by double-digit final margins. The Indians first took care of North Fayette Valley in West Union Monday, January 13 by a 72-55 final result before pouring in their highest point total of the season on the way to an 88-74 victory at home over MFL/MarMac Thursday, January 16. Holding a 6-5 season record that includes a 1-4 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians were next scheduled to host Spring Grove, MN Monday, January 20 before making up that January 17 postponement but playing at New Hampton Thursday, January 23 prior to also playing at Oelwein Friday, January 24.

The Waukon bowling teams opened this past week making up a December 13 postponed meet at home with North Iowa, hosting the Bison Monday, January 13 and ending up with opposite results, but only by a slim margin in the girls competition. The Lady Indians had a slim early lead reversed in the Baker round of their competition to fall by just a 1947-1960 result, while the Waukon boys easily handled their North Iowa competition limited in participation numbers this season, 2498-1774.

The bowling Indians were also scheduled to host Waterloo Columbus Friday, January 17 but had that meet postponed because of winter weather to a date yet to be determined. The Tribe is next scheduled to host Oelwein this Friday, January 24 and will then travel to Sumner-Fredericksburg Friday, January 31 before competing in the Waterloo Columbus Tournament Saturday, February 1.

The Waukon girls basketball team ended up with just one game on its schedule this past week, as a late-week snow storm claimed a Friday, January 17 home game with New Hampton. The lone Indian contest of the week was a Monday, January 13 home game with North Fayette Valley. Trailing their North Fayette Valley guests throughout a majority of the ballgame, the Indian basketball girls put together a fi nal 16-7 surge over the game’s fi nal fi ve minutes to grab the lead and pull away to a 60-52 non-conference victory over the visiting TigerHawks. The three-point and free throw lines helped the Lady Indians clinch that comeback win, as 14 of the Tribe’s final 16 points of the ballgame came from either of those stripes at a nearly equal split. The Tribe will then play the top two teams in the Northeast Iowa Conference, playing at Crestwood Tuesday, January 28 before hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 31.

Waukon football seniors Alyx Ede (photo above) and Tyler Block (photo below) have each been named among the more than 90 Iowa high school football seniors selected for the Iowa Football Coaches Association (IFCA) Academic All-State Honor Roll following completion of the 2019 football season. Players named to the list must be nominated by their head coach, must be a senior starter on the football team, must have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.7 or better at the end of their junior year, and must be involved in other extra-curricular activities.