Seven turnovers help Waukon football team advance in postseason play with 46-12 first-round home win over Bellevue; Indians will host Wilton this Friday
One-handed grab ... Waukon football junior Talin Hemann reaches out to bring in a pass for a five-yard touchdown catch in the Indians’ 46-12 home win over Bellevue in the opening round of the Class 2A Play-Offs Friday, October 23. Hemann hauled in two passes for eight yards and this touchdown. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photos link on this webpage.
In a bit of deja vu, the Waukon football team’s 10th consecutive berth in the Class 2A State Play-Offs matched the Indians with a Bellevue team they had also opened up last season’s State Play-Offs with. In further deja vu fashion, the grid Tribe handled those visiting Comets with relative ease in their opening-round match-up once again Friday, October 23, securing seven turnovers and building a 24-0 headstart on the way to a 46-12 victory and advancement to the second round of postseason play for a second consecutive season.
For the second consecutive season, the Indians will now advance to the second round of the Class 2A Play-Offs, but will remain at home this Friday, October 30, beginning at 7 p.m., to host Wilton, a team coming off a 39-3 first-round play-off victory at home over Anamosa. The eighth-rated Beavers were the runner-up team in District 6 behind seventh-rated Mid-Prairie, who handed them their lone district loss, 20-19, in mid-September. Wilton’s only other loss on the season came to undefeated and Class 1A top-rated Iowa City Regina, 36-0, to open this season.
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