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The Kee girls basketball team both ended its regular season and began its postseason in successful fashion this past week, continuing what has now become an eight-game winning streak to also continue its season further into the Class 1A Region 5 tournament bracket. The end to the Lady Hawks’ regular season featured a 53-41 home win over Spring Grove, MN Tuesday, February 11 before Kee’s bucket brigade began regional tournament play Thursday, February 13 with a 58-30 dominance of fellow Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) squad Clayton Ridge.

The two games the Waukon boys basketball team had on its schedule this past week were different in that one was played at home and outside the Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) and the other was on the road and played within its NEIC schedule. The similarities, however, were all too unfortunate, as both games came down to a final shot attempt at the buzzer, and both games ended up as three-point losses for the Indians when those final shots missed their mark, including a 71-68 loss at home to Central Elkader Monday, February 3 and a 66-63 NEIC loss at Charles City Friday, February 7.

The Waukon girls basketball team hosted a pair of non-conference opponents this past week, splitting those two contests for an even week on the court. The Lady Indians first secured a 50-32 home win over Central Elkader Monday, February 3 but had those tables turned Thursday, February 6 when Class 1A fifth-rated Riceville traveled to Waukon, as the Tribe fell by a 53-37 final tally.

Now holding a 12-7 season record, including a 3-2 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play, the Lady Indians were next scheduled to host La Crescent-Hokah, MN Monday, February 10 and then against Crestwood Tuesday, February 11 to close out their regular season schedule. They will then host that same Crestwood team again to open their Class 3A Regional Tournament schedule this Saturday, February 15.

The Kee boys basketball team had a chance to make up a bit of ground on the leading teams in the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) this past week when the Hawks hosted the top two UIC teams, that sport a combined league record of 29-1, to begin and end their week of competition. Those opportunities proved to be there for the taking, as the Hawks held leads in both contests, but rallies by the host squads, instead, left Kee’s boys with a 65-56 loss to undefeated North Fayette Valley Tuesday, February 4 and a 72-64 defeat handed to them by MFL/MarMac Friday, February 7.

Now holding a 12-8 overall record that includes an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) mark of 10-5, Kee’s boys were next scheduled to play at South Winneshiek Tuesday, February 11 to wrap up their regular season schedule with a battle for third place in the final UIC standings. They will then open Class 1A District Tournament play at home against Turkey Valley Monday, February 17, beginning at 7 p.m.

It was a week full of opportunities for revenge for the Kee girls basketball team this past week, and the Lady Hawks took full advantage of those opportunities in both games on their schedule, defeating both of the larger school squads who had handed them their first two Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) losses of this season and their first two losses of the new year 2025. Kee’s bucket brigade opened the week with a 50-41 home triumph over Class 3A North Fayette Valley Tuesday, February 4 and wrapped up the week handing UIC-leading Class 2A MFL/MarMac just its second league loss of this season with a 38-28 victory at home Friday, February 7 to tighten up the final Upper Iowa Conference standings.

The Kee boys basketball team continued its recent winning ways this past week, adding two more victories to now five-game win streaks both overall and in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play. The Hawks completed season sweeps of both Clayton Ridge, 82-59 Tuesday, January 28, and Central Elkader, 62-56 Friday, January 31, with both of those victories coming in UIC road play.

The Waukon boys basketball team played through a busy week of three games in five nights this past week, putting only the first of those contests in the win column. The Indians opened the week with a 67-59 home victory over South Winneshiek Monday, January 27 before finishing up the week with consecutive nights of competition that included a narrow, 74-71 loss at Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, January 30 before also falling at home to Class 3A second-rated Decorah, 72-37.

The Waukon girls wrestling team was competing for continuation of its season with 18 other teams at the Class 1A Region 3 Tournament hosted by East Buchanan High School in Winthrop Friday, January 31. The mat Tribe had 11 young ladies - including two sophomores and nine freshmen - vying for either a championship or runner-up finish in their respective weight classes to earn State Tournament qualification, but ended up not advancing any of them to the season grand finale, with a pair of lighter weight Lady Indians wrestling their way back into late contention for that advancement opportunity but being denied as the Waukon girls compiled a total of 45 team points to tie for 14th-place in the final 19-team standings at the tournament and have their 2024-2025 season brought to a close.

The Waukon girls basketball team played through a busy week with three games played over five nights, first extending its new year win streak to seven consecutive games before having its 2025 undefeated run brought to a halt by the last team to have beaten them prior to that new year streak. The extension of that new year streak began with wins of 45-27 over South Winneshiek at home Monday, January 27 and 55-24 at Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, January 30 before Class 4A Decorah finally snapped the bucket Tribe’s 2025 undefeated stretch with a 46-39 home loss Friday, January 31 in a battle for Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) supremacy between two squads with a single NEIC loss coming into the contest.

The Waukon bowling teams looked to get back on the winning track when they hosted Oelwein Friday, January 24. The Waukon girls were able to do just that over a Lady Husky squad that featured just four bowlers, posting a 2094-1027 triumph. The Waukon bowling boys remained in search of their first win of the season, having a narrow deficit after the head-to-head round of competition grow much wider following the Baker round finale to fall by a 2198-1972 end result.

The Waukon bowling teams are next scheduled to host Sumner-Fredericksburg Friday, January 31 before competing in the North Central Conference Baker Tournament hosted by Waterloo Columbus Wednesday, February 5. The bowling Tribe will wrap up its dual meet schedule with a Friday, February 14 match-up at Charles City prior to the bowling Indians competing in their State Qualifying Tournaments February 17-18.