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The Kee volleyball team brought its regular season to a close this past week with two final Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) dual matches, still battling for its first match win of the season right up to the very end. The Hawk netters first wrapped up their home schedule for this fall season, falling to Turkey Valley in three sets Tuesday, October 14 by scores of 15-25, 8-25 and 14-25, and then brought their regular season to a close with a final match at West Central Thursday, October 16, coming within the minimum two points of a set win on each side of a wider gap in falling in three sets once again, by scores of 27-29, 18-25 and 23-25.

The Hawks were scheduled to begin Class 1A Regional Tournament play Monday, October 20 at and against Edgewood-Colesburg. Details of that match will be printed in the October 29 edition of The Standard.

Emma O’Neill is All-Conference repeat; Davis, Johnson, Johanningmeier earn first All-Conference honors

The first-ever competition in the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet was not the only firsts for the Waukon girls cross country team at that meet, as the Lady Indians made a strong first impression at their new conference meet hosted in Elkader Thursday, October 16. That first impression not only came in the form of a first-place team championship for the Lady Tribe distance dandies but also included the meet’s individual championship first-place finishers further complemented by a runner-up individual finish for a one-two sweep of the top-two individual placewinnings and six total All-Conference finishes within the top-20 individuals that fueled the Indians to a team title 41 points that topped both the overall and Large School team standings.

Garner Lange repeats All-Conference honors; Knox, Stock, Cahalan and Keeling finish All-Conference

Competing in their first-ever Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet as one of three new members of that conference this season, the Waukon boys cross country team made a strong introduction to its UIC peers by winning the team championship at the Thursday, October 16 event held at Elkader and hosted by Postville. Fueled by six runners finishing in the All-Conference top-20 that were headlined by an All-Conference runner-up finish, the Indians topped both the overall team scoring and the Large School team scoring that the meet was further broken down into between the Large School and Small School divisions of the conference.

The Kee cross country team competed in its final meet prior to competing for further extension of its season, as the Hawks took part in their annual Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet that included some new faces this year in the expanded UIC field. That expansion allowed for not only an overall meet result, which saw Kee’s varsity boys finish seventh in that overall nine-team field, but also broke the meet down into Large School and Small School results, where the Hawks finished third out of four Small School teams, all behind the fourth consecutive All-Conference finish earned by senior Justin Wagner within the overall meet’s top-20 individuals.

The Hawks are next scheduled to compete in their Class 1A State Qualifying Meet scheduled for Thursday, October 23, beginning at 4 p.m. Further details of that postseason possibility are printed in the Wednesday, October 22, 2025 edition of the Standard.

Looking to get back on the winning track after suffering its first Class 2A District 3 loss a week earlier to what appears to be this season’s District 3 champion, the Waukon football team was looking to also further solidify its State Play-Off position when the Indians hosted a New Hampton squad Friday, October 10 that has yet to win a game in District 3 play this season and has just one win to its credit so far this fall. Focusing more on establishing a ball control type of offense, the Indians compiled a 363-115 advantage in total offensive yards during the contest and came within the final 10 seconds of the ballgame of pitching a shut-out on the way to a 36-7 victory that boosted the grid Tribe into a tie for second place in the Class 2A District 3 standings with just one game remaining on this season’s regular season schedule, and that game being played against the Crestwood team the Indians now share that second-place district standing with.

In its only competition of the week, the Waukon volleyball team hosted three other Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) teams in a quadrangular event Tuesday, October 7, with that new UIC quadrangular format for this year featuring two teams from the Large School division (the host Indians and Crestwood in Tuesday’s match) taking on two teams from the Small School division (Postville and Kee). Both the Indians and Crestwood swept through their two Small School opponents, with the Lady Indians doing so by scores of 25-10 and 25-17 over Postville in the evening’s opening match and by scores of 25-14 and 25-7 over Kee in the nightcap.

Holding an overall season record of 24-6 that includes a mark of 8-1 in UIC play, the Indians were next scheduled to play at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, October 14 and at South Winneshiek Thursday, October 16. They will then prepare for their Class 3A Regional Tournament scheduled for Tuesday, October 21 at and against Anamosa.

The final home game originally scheduled for this 2025 season for the Kee football team saw the Hawks play host to a Central City team still in search of its first win in Eight-Player District 4 play and having just one win to its credit this fall as the two teams took to the field Friday, October 10 in Lansing. Even with the football Hawks having had a greater level of success against the common opponents the two teams have both faced this fall, Kee’s gridders couldn’t quite distance themselves too much from that Central City squad in the game’s first half, playing to a 22-22 tie late in the second quarter, but they eventually took better control of the game in the second half to end their regular season home schedule with a 52-36 triumph over the Wildcats.

The Waukon volleyball team played through an undefeated week on the court this past week, winning all eight of its matches played in both dual and tournament action on the way to a repeat tournament championship and a climb up the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) ladder. The net Tribe opened the week sweeping a pair of UIC Small School Division teams in two sets each at a UIC quadrangular hosted by West Central Tuesday, September 30 before handing fellow Northeast Iowa Conference squad now competing in the UIC, New Hampton, its first UIC match loss, also in sweeping fashion, at home Thursday, October 2. The Lady Indians carried their winning ways over into the weekend, where they wrapped up their busy week with five more match victories on the way to claiming the team title at the Oelwein Tournament for the second season in a row.

The Kee volleyball team played a total of six matches in a busy past week, including three each in both dual and tournament competition, and came up shy of the win column in all six of those matches but did secure the Lady Hawks’ first set victory of this season in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play. Kee’s netters first fell to a pair of UIC teams from the Large School division of that conference in a home quadrangular Tuesday, September 30, falling to both South Winneshiek and MFL/MarMac in two sets each, before playing their closest dual match of the season at Postville Thursday, October 2 in first falling behind in two sets before splitting a pair of 25-23 set final results to earn this season’s first UIC set victory for the Hawks but ultimately surrendering the match in four sets.

In a battle of teams still undefeated in Class 2A District 3 play heading into their Friday, October 3 match-up, the 3-2 Waukon football team traveled to the home of still overall undefeated and top-10 rated Osage. With the Green Devils having yet to surrender more than eight points in a game to any of its previous five opponents on the season, the Indians put together a strong 12-minute stretch throughout the middle of the contest for 24 points contributed to by all phases of the game, with those 24 points nearly equaling the entire point total Osage had allowed in its previous five games combined.