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In what turned out to be the Waukon wrestling team’s only competition of the week, the wrestling Indians opened their dual meet and Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) schedule against one of the state’s best teams when Class 3A top-rated Waverly-Shell Rock came to town Thursday, December 9. Facing a Go-Hawk line-up that did not bring all of its highest-ranked grapplers to the mat, the Indians scored one of their highest recent point totals against Waverly-Shell Rock but surrendered five forfeits and five of the nine weight classes contested on the mat in falling by a 57-21 final result.

The Kee boys basketball team ended up playing two of its three games scheduled for this past week, having a Friday, December 10 home game with Turkey Valley postponed to February 3 due to winter weather. The Hawks opened the week with a 62-28 win at Postville Tuesday, December 7 before taking Class 2A New Hampton into overtime before surrendering a 74-67 loss for their first defeat of the season.

The Kee boys were next scheduled to play at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, December 14 and at North Fayette Valley Friday, December 17. They will then wrap up the pre-holiday portion of their schedule with back-to-back nights of competition, playing at Wapsie Valley Monday, December 20 before hosting Clayton Ridge Tuesday, December 21.

The Kee girls basketball team ended up playing two of three games scheduled for this past week, having a Friday, December 10 home game with Turkey Valley postponed to February 3 by winter weather. On each side of that postponement the Lady Hawks recorded a 57-20 win at Postville Tuesday, December 7 before falling at home to Class 3A New Hampton Saturday, December 11, 62-56.

The Kee girls were next scheduled to play at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, December 14 and at North Fayette Valley Friday, December 17. They will then wrap up the pre-holiday portion of their schedule with back-to-back nights of competition, playing at Wapsie Valley Monday, December 20 before hosting Clayton Ridge Tuesday, December 21.

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The Waukon boys basketball team has its 2021-2022 season off to a 0-2 start after a pair of non-conference battles at home. With two returning starters from last season’s final games still recovering from football ailments and not in the line-up yet this season, the bucket Tribe first fell at home to MFL/MarMac, 87-76, Monday, November 29 before suffering a similar fate, 57-46, at home to Sumner-Fredericksburg Tuesday, November 30.

The Indians were next scheduled to play Monticello at Upper Iowa University in Fayette Monday, December 6 before hosting Crestwood Friday, December 10. The Tribe will then travel to New Hampton Tuesday, December 14 before hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, December 17 and then wrapping up its pre-holiday schedule with back-to-back nights at home, hosting Oelwein Monday, December 20 and then Decorah Tuesday, December 21.

The Waukon bowling teams bowled their first home match of the 2021-2022 season, hosting Decorah Friday, December 3 and being swept in both varsity match-ups by the visiting Vikings. The Indian girls fell by an 1853-2105 final result while the Waukon boys surrendered a 2278-2574 tally.

The bowling Indians are next scheduled to host North Iowa this Friday, December 10 before bowling at Waverly Friday, December 17 to wrap up the pre-holiday portion of this season’s schedule. The Tribe will return to action after the holidays with a Friday, January 7 road date at North Fayette Valley.

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The Kee boys basketball team got its 2021-2022 campaign off to an undefeated start, posting victories on consecutive nights away from home over this past weekend. The Hawks fended off Central Elkader for a 66-57 road win in Upper Iowa Conference play Friday, December 3 before handling Schaeffer Academy out of Rochester, MN, 70-51, as part of the Iowa-Minnesota Border Battle at Luther College in Decorah Saturday, December 4.

The Kee boys were next scheduled to play at Postville Tuesday, December 7 before opening their home slate hosting Turkey Valley Friday, December 10 and then New Hampton Saturday, December 11. The Hawks will then play at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, December 14 and at North Fayette Valley Friday, December 17 before wrapping up the pre-holiday portion of their schedule with back-to-back nights of competition, playing at Wapsie Valley Monday, December 20 before hosting Clayton Ridge Tuesday, December 21.

The Waukon girls basketball team split consecutive nights of competition in a week that was heavy with action early on, both of those games being played against non-conference foes. The Lady Indians first held off MFL/MarMac at home Monday, November 29 for a 37-33 triumph before falling at Dubuque Wahlert the very next evening, Tuesday, November 30, by a 55-44 final result.

The Indians were next scheduled to play Monday, December 6 at Clayton Ridge before another consecutive nights of action, traveling to Caledonia, MN Thursday, December 9 and then hosting Crestwood Friday, December 10. The bucket Tribe will then play at New Hampton Tuesday, December 14 and host Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, December 17 before hosting Decorah Tuesday, December 21 to wrap up the pre-holiday portion of this season’s schedule.

Waukon Middle School football coach Tim Bulman was honored with the Don Taft Memorial Junior High School Football Coach of the Year Award for Class 2A during the Class 2A State Championship football game at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls Friday, November 19. Bulman has been coaching football for 37 years, with all but four of those years being at the junior high/middle school level and those other four years being as a junior varsity coach. That coaching tenure has included positions in the Terril and Jesup school districts before he coached the past 19 seasons in Waukon.

The Waukon boys basketball team is coming off one of its best seasons in recent history this past winter and will return four letterwinning veterans from that campaign that ended with a 15-6 season record. Although four returning veterans can fill a large portion of a five-player regime that takes to the basketball court, that leadership foursome and this season’s supporting cast will have some significant holes to fill from the graduation of a six-player senior class that helped the bucket Tribe reach the 15-win mark for just the third time in the past decade and play to its best Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) record and team finish in well over a decade, all while setting some records along the way.

The biggest change for the 2021-2022 Kee boys basketball team from last season to this season will be at the very top of the totem pole, as the team returns seven varsity letterwinners as seniors this winter but will be guided by a new head coach after the retirement of Pat Wagner since last season. Jeff Cota will be taking over those head coaching reins this season, but even though he may be new to the position, he is certainly not new to the program or to the charges he inherits.