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The Kee softball team opened its 2019 campaign in an unfamiliar place, starting off the season without a win in its first four games, although coming within a couple opportunities and runs of a different fate in half those contests. The Lady Hawks opened the season with a 15-5 loss at Decorah in six innings Wednesday, May 22 after having that game postponed a day due to rainy weather. The Kee girls then suffered a 5-3 loss at Waukon Friday, May 24 in a game shortened to just five innings by an approaching storm before coming up shy in two games at the Jesup Tournament Saturday, May 25, falling to Class 2A second-rated North Linn by a 6-0 count before surrendering a 10-8 loss to Alburnett in another game shortened due to tournament time limitations.

Three relay championships in 4x800, Distance Medley and 4x400 fuel the fire, points in individual events by Brennan and Meyer prove to be pivotal in first-ever team title

“A title a day helps bring a trophy your way!”

Although that’s not exactly how the old saying goes, that’s exactly what the doctor ordered for the Kee girls track team in writing yet another chapter in the often recently revamped history of Lady Hawk athletics. Behind the strength of three relay championships and two other point-scoring individual finishes at the State Track and Field Meet held at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18, the Kee girls not only won their first running event State Championships in program history, but used those three event titles - one each day - to further fuel their way to a share of their first-ever Class 1A Team State Championship, scoring 36 team points to tie with Alburnett for this year’s Class 1A crown.

The Waukon girls track team had its 2019 season brought to an ultimate close among the Class 2A elite, as nine young ladies competed in six different events at the State Track and Field Meet held at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18. Battling weather extremes of heat and rain throughout the season grand finale, the Lady Indians garnered finishes from within the top five to within the bottom five of their respective competitions among the best track and field athletes Iowa’s Class 2A has to offer this season.

As she has most of this season, sophomore Annika Headington paced the Indian results efforts at this season-ending meet. Returning in the shot put, where she did not place among the event medal winners last spring, Headington returned with a vengeance in launching her way to a fifth-place finish among this year’s Class 2A shot put field.

The Waukon boys track season came to a final end where every team and athlete strives to be, as three Indians competed in four individual events at this year’s State Track and Field Meet held Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. With weather during the three-day event featuring the extremes of blistering heat Thursday and rainy, wet conditions for some of the remainder, so too were the Indians’ event results near the extremes among Iowa’s Class 2A track and field elite.

The Waukon boys golf team brought its 2019 season to a close with its annual Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Tournament. The golf Tribe played host to the other six NEIC teams Monday, May 20, coming up shy of having any golfers finish within the tournament’s top-15 individuals to be recognized with All-Conference honors, finishing fifth in the final seven-team standings with 354 team points.

TEAM SCORES
Waverly-Shell Rock 312; Decorah 331; Charles City 332; New Hampton 343; WAUKON 354; Oelwein 375; Crestwood 414

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Headington is double qualifier in throwing events, Snitker qualifies in 400m dash and helps 4x400 and 4x800 earn State Meet berths, shuttle hurdle relay also qualifies for season finale

The Waukon girls track team crowned just one event champion at its Friday, May 10 Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Monticello, but ended up extending the 2019 season in six different events with qualification for this year’s State Track Meet being held later this week in Des Moines. In addition to a shot put championship won by sophomore Annika Headington for the track Tribe’s lone automatic qualification for this year’s season grand finale, the Indians also had a pair of third-place event finishes and a trio of fifth-place efforts earn advancement to this week’s Class 2A State Track Meet, helping pace the Indians to 60 team points and a sixth-place finish in the meet’s final 12-team field.

Sullivan is double qualifier in throwing events, Behrend qualifies in high jump, Hatlan in 100m

The Waukon boys track team competed for the right to extend the 2019 season for as many events and competitors as possible, doing so for three such Indians in four individual events at the Tribe’s Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Monticello Friday, May 10. The event was delayed a day due to cold weather conditions the previous night, with the Indians ending up with one event championship and two event runner-up finishes to earn automatic qualification for this week’s State Track Meet, and also getting one other at-large qualification with a fourth-place finish to help lead the way to 55 team points and a seventh-place team finish in the final 12-team meet standings.

The Kee boys track team had its 2019 season brought to a close at its Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Edgewood-Colesburg Friday, May 10. The meet was delayed a day due to colder weather Thursday, May 9 but that nearly 30-degree temperature improvement couldn’t quite get the Hawks over the hump to qualifying any events for this season’s State Track Meet, the Hawks managing event finishes as high as third place to help them to an 11th-place team finish in the final 14-team meet standings with 30 points.

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The Waukon boys golf team played a full week of multi-team competition, including one that dictated the future of this 2019 season. The Indians first placed third in both an 18-hole triangular at Charles City Monday, May 6 and in a home quadrangular Tuesday, May 7. The golf Tribe then played in its Class 3A Sectional Tournament at Charles City Friday, May 10, placing sixth as a team and not placing any individual golfers high enough to advance further down the postseason trail.

The Waukon boys were next scheduled to host the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Monday, May 13. Completion of that tournament will bring an end to the golf Tribe’s 2019 season.

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Brennan, Makayla Walleser, Peters and Meyer each qualify in four events, Mitchell helps three events qualify, Mudderman earns two berths, Rachel Walleser wins 3000m

The Kee girls track team continued repeating history, and making even more, when the Lady Hawks won their second consecutive Class 1A District team championship at the Friday, May 10 State Qualifying Meet hosted by Edgewood-Colesburg. The meet was delayed a day due to colder weather Thursday, May 9, but the temperature wasn’t the only thing heating up for Friday’s meet, as the Kee girls won seven events for automatic State Meet qualification and finished second in four more. Three of those runner-up finishes also earned at-large qualification for this season’s grand finale being held in Des Moines later this week and further helped the Hawks to a team championship total of 115 points.