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The only game played by the Kee girls basketball team this past week proved to be a blow to the hopes of the Lady Hawks defending their Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) championship from last season, as the Kee girls fell a bit behind early at Central Elkader Friday, January 25 and had a valiant comeback effort in the second half come up just short for a 38-36 loss to the host Warriors. The loss drops the Hawks to a 13-3 season record that includes a now 10-2 UIC mark to currently stand in second place behind a yet UIC-undefeated MFL/MarMac team that still has five UIC games yet to play, including a date in Kee’s home gym this Friday, February 1.

The Kee girls were slated to also host MFL/MarMac Friday, February 1 before supposedly wrapping up their regular season with a Tuesday, February 5 home game with West Central, pending those other postponements. The Hawks will then begin Class 1A regional tournament play Tuesday, February 12.

The Kee boys basketball team ended up with a fairly busy week of three games, actually having another one on its schedule but having that Tuesday, January 22 game at Turkey Valley postponed to Monday, January 28. In the three games that were played, the Hawks were able to pick up their third win of the season in between a pair of losses. Kee’s basketball boys started the week with a 44-31 home loss to Seneca, WI Monday, January 21 before securing that win, 57-44, at Central Elkader Friday, January 25. Kee had a game at Clayton Ridge that had originally been postponed from January 14 rescheduled again from Thursday, January 24 to Saturday, January 26, the Hawks falling in that road contest by a 43-38 final result.

The Waukon wrestling team will begin its postseason tournament trail Saturday, February 2 at the Class 2A Sectional 10 Tournament hosted by Decorah High School, beginning at 12 noon. The Indians will be matched up against teams from Crestwood, Decorah, New Hampton, North Fayette Valley and Oelwein. The first-place and second-place finishers in the final team standings at the Sectional Tournament will advance on to one of eight Regional Dual Tournaments at a site to be determined.

The top two individual Sectional Tournament placewinners at each weight will also advance on to the Class 2A District 5 Tournament hosted by Independence High School Saturday, February 9 at 12 noon, where they will be matched up with the opposite first- or second-place winner from the Sectional 9 Tournament at Aplington-Parkersburg. Teams from that tournament will include Aplington-Parkersburg, BCLUW, Columbus, Dike-New Hartford, Independence and Union-LaPorte City.

The Waukon boys basketball team’s only scheduled game of this past week was actually played a day earlier than originally scheduled due to anticipated winter weather Friday, January 18. Instead, the basketball Tribe hosted Oelwein Thursday, January 17 in a Northeast Iowa Conference match-up, falling victim to a hot-shooting Husky squad that canned 15 threepoint baskets on the night from six different sources in running away with a 76-55 Indian defeat.

Now holding a 4-9 season record, the basketball Tribe was next scheduled to play at Crestwood Tuesday, January 22 and then at Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 25. The Indians will then play at Spring Grove, MN Monday, January 28 before hosting Prairie du Chien, WI Tuesday, January 29 and then playing at Charles City Friday, February 1.

The Waukon wrestling team competed in a busy latter portion of this past week, wrestling in what amounted to six dual meets in a 48-hour period. The first two of those bouts wrapped up the Indians’ Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet schedule without a win in a double-dual at Waverly Thursday, January 17, as the mat Tribe first fell to Class 3A second-rated Waverly-Shell Rock, 79-0, before also falling to Charles City by a 63-12 count. The Indian matmen then wrestled four duals at the Riceville Dual Tournament Saturday, January 19, posting wins over Central Elkader, 42-12, and Tripoli, 34-18, but also falling to New Hampton/Turkey Valley, 55-6, and to the host school, 33-18.

The Waukon girls basketball team ended up being able to play only one of its two scheduled games this past week, a Friday, January 18 game at Oelwein having to be postponed due to winter weather and ending up being rescheduled for Saturday, February 2. In the one game the Lady Indians did get to play in, they traveled to Upper Iowa University in Fayette to match up with Wapsie Valley in a non-conference make-up game from a December 1 date with Don Bosco that was canceled due to winter weather, the Indians making the most of that trip with a 54-33 win.

Waukon High School 2014 graduates Parker Hesse and Marcus Weymiller provided a “full circle” moment when they recently made the decision to designate proceeds from the sale of t-shirts (worn and displayed at far left in the above photo) by the Waukon High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter in honor of the former Waukon football teammates’ September 15 collegiate match-up in their final seasons with the Iowa Hawkeye and UNI Panther football teams, respectively. The two were tasked by Waukon High School FBLA Advisor Joan Schwartz with the decision of where the $2,000 raised by the sale of 378 of the t-shirts would be donated, with the two deciding upon the Waukon Youth Sports Foundation (YSF) football program, the tackle football program offered for fifth and sixth grade students in the Allamakee Community School District.

The Kee girls basketball team added two more games to its winning streak of four games started with the new year, posting a pair of home wins by differing degrees over a pair of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) opponents. The Lady Hawks first fended off a late South Winneshiek effort to secure a 29-26 win over the Warriors Tuesday, January 8 before allowing their lowest point total of the season in a 57-8 home drubbing of Postville Friday, January 11.

Now holding a 12-2 record on the season, including a 9-1 mark in UIC play, the Lady Hawks were next scheduled to play at Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 15 for their only competition of the week. They will make up for that slower week with a busy following week on the road, playing at Turkey Valley Tuesday, January 22, at Seneca, WI Thursday, January 24 and at Central Elkader Friday, January 25.

The Kee boys basketball team hosted a two-game home stand this past week, coming out on the same unfortunate end of both contests but by differing degrees. The Hawks first fell to South Winneshiek, 69-44, Tuesday, January 8 before battling Postville to a much closer final result but still ending up on the short end, 40-38, Friday, January 11.

Falling to 2-9 overall, 2-8 in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play, the Hawks were next scheduled to travel to Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 15 before also hitting the road to take on Houston, MN Thursday, January 17. The Kee boys will then play a busy following week, hosting Seneca, WI Monday, January 21 before playing at Turkey Valley Tuesday, January 22 and at Central Elkader Friday, January 25.

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The Waukon boys basketball team played its busiest schedule of the season so far with three games this past week. The start to that week was very successful, with the Indians not only snapping a seven-game losing streak but also beginning a winning streak with back-to-back nights of victory, 82-49 at home over North Fayette Valley Monday, January 7 and 73-63 at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, January 8. The end to the week saw the basketball Tribe have that winning streak brought to an end and also extend a season-long winless streak, thus far, in Northeast Iowa Conference play with a 60-44 loss at New Hampton Friday, January 11.

Now holding a 4-8 season record, the basketball Tribe was next scheduled to host Oelwein Friday, January 18 for its only competition of this week. The Indians will then play at Crestwood Tuesday, January 22 and then at Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 25.