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The Kee boys basketball team brought its regular season to a close and opened up its postseason on opposite ends of the final results spectrum at home this past week. That regular season was ended with a 53-42 loss at home to Turkey Valley Tuesday, February 7 but the Hawks then began their Class 1A District Tournament trail with much more success, a 65-35 win at home over Starmont Friday, February 10 to extend their season.

Holding a 7-14 season record that includes a 6-10 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play, the Hawks were next scheduled to play in their next round of Class 1A District 3 Tournament Monday, February 13 at Wapsie Valley. The winner moves on to a Thursday, February 16 quarterfinal match-up at Wapsie Valley, beginning at 7 p.m., taking on the winner of a first-round match-up between Waterloo Christian and Nashua-Plainfield.

The Kee girls basketball team had both its regular season and overall season brought to a close this past week for its 2022-2023 campaign, suffering a pair of losses in two games played. The Lady Hawks first fell at home, 66-43, to Waukon Monday, February 6 in a game rescheduled from January 3 to bring its regular season to a close, before then having its overall 2022-2023 season ended in the opening round of Class 1A Regional Tournament play with a 79-29 loss at Edgewood-Colesburg Thursday, February 9.

The losses bring the Lady Hawks’ season to a close with a 5-16 overall record that includes a 5-11 mark that placed the Kee girls sixth in the final nine-team Upper Iowa Conference standings. With its regional win, Edgewood-Colesburg advanced on to play 10th-rated Central Elkader Tuesday, February 14 in the Region 6 quarterfinals.

Senior Maggie Criswell claims another assist record with new single-season mark

The Waukon girls basketball team played a busy week of three games this past week but put all of them in the win column, including the end of its regular season and Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) season, as well as the beginning of its postseason. The Lady Indians first defeated Kee, 66-43, in a non-conference road game Monday, February 6 in a game made up from January 3, then wrapped up their regular and NEIC seasons with a 76-37 win at Charles City Tuesday, February 7, before opening Class 3A Region 7 Tournament play with a 66-38 win at North Fayette Valley Saturday, February 11.

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Mia Kurth wins five of six matches to finish third among 100-pound elite

A trio of Waukon girls wrestling team members were part of the first-ever State Wrestling Tournament sanctioned by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) held at the Xtream Arena in Coralville Thursday and Friday, February 2-3. Those three Lady Indians gained valuable experience at this year’s season grand finale, winning seven of their 12 matches wrestled to help score 31 team points and finish in a two-way tie with West Lyon for 37th place out 137 teams scoring at the tournament and 157 overall teams having wrestlers competing in this year’s State Tournament.

The Waukon girls and boys bowling teams continued their winning ways in sweeping fashion with another pair of victories this past week, as both teams swept their same opponent for the sixth and seventh times this season. The Indian girls and boys both defeated North Iowa in a Monday, January 30 road match-up postponed from December 9, the Lady Indians claiming a 2107-1897 victory and the Waukon boys doing likewise by a 2711-2089 final result. Both those squads then wrapped up their home schedule for this season with another opponent sweep, as both teams defeated Denver Friday, February 3, including a 2315-1922 win for the Waukon girls and a 2745-2553 victory for the Indian boys.

The Kee boys basketball team played one of its busiest schedules this past week, competing in three games within four nights. That stretch also proved to be the Hawks’ most successful timeframe of this campaign, as two of those three games ended up in the win column to begin Kee’s first winning streak of this season. The Hawks shook off an 86-68 loss to South Winneshiek at home to start the week Monday, January 30 in a game made up from mid-December, following that loss with a 75-44 season-sweep win at West Central the next night, Tuesday, January 31 before completing another season sweep with a 69-51 win at Central Elkader Thursday, February 2 in a game made up from late November.

It was a week of differences for the Waukon girls basketball team, as they played two games that were split between away and home, non-conference and in the Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC), against unranked and highly-ranked opponents, and, ultimately, in and out of the win column. That week started with a 55-41 win at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, January 31 before the bucket Tribe fell at home to Class 4A fifth-rated Decorah Friday, February 3 by a 61-42 result.

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Kloe Hemmersbach, Mia Kurth and Faith Cooper to compete this week at historic season grand finale

The Waukon girls wrestling team had the 2022-2023 season brought to a close for all but three of its wrestlers this past week, as three young ladies battled their way to advancement to this year’s first-ever State Wrestling Tournament sanctioned by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU). Prior to the extension of this season for that trio, the Indian mat ladies wrestled in one final dual competition at the MFL/MarMac Scramble in Monona Tuesday, January 24. They then competed in the first-ever IGHSAU Region 8 Tournament Thursday, January 27 at Luther College in Decorah for the right to advance to this year’s season grand finale, with three of eight competing Indians finishing within the required top four in their respective weight classes to earn State Tournament qualification.

Senior Jakob Regan wins second consecutive NEIC crown, ties school record for career wins

The Waukon boys wrestling team wrapped up its regular season this past week with some final dual and tournament action in preparation for its upcoming postseason tournament journey. The mat Tribe first won three of four duals at the MFL/MarMac Scramble Tuesday, January 24, falling to Class 1A top-five rated Nashua-Plainfield, 57-20, before sweeping its remaining three opponents by final results of 70-9 over Clayton Ridge, 57-18 over Postville and 42-39 in comeback fashion over the host MFL/MarMac squad.

The Kee girls basketball team recorded a split of its two games played this past week, both of those taking place in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play against teams sharing the latter half of the UIC standings with the Hawks. The Lady Hawks first fell at South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 24 by a 37-25 result before completing their regular season sweep of Postville by pulling out a 52-47 win at home Friday, January 27.