Kee baseball team has season brought to an end with district loss to Wapsie Valley
Kee baseball senior outfielder/pitcher Nolan Welsh closed out the Hawks’ effort on the mound in their 10-2 first-round Class 1A district tournament loss to Wapsie Valley at Jesup Tuesday, July 14. Welsh threw the game’s final inning and one-third, giving up just two hits while striking out one batter and walking another. He started the game in right field, chasing down a couple fly balls for outs in his final game in a Kee baseball uniform. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link.
The Kee baseball team had its 2015 season brought to a close in the opening round of Class 1A district tournament play Tuesday, July 14, suffering a 10-2 loss to Wapsie Valley in the first half of a district tournament doubleheader played that evening in Jesup. The Hawks had just faced their Warrior opponents one week earlier, pulling out an 11-10 road victory, but could not come up with a similar offensive response and allowed a seven-run fifth inning to open up a 2-2 scoreboard knot enroute to the loss. The loss ended Kee’s season at an 11-22 overall record that includes a mark of 6-10 that placed the Hawks sixth in the final nine-team Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) standings. With the win, Wapsie Valley advanced on to face Jesup, 6-1 first-round winners over Central City. Wapsie Valley had its season ended by Jesup with a 5-1 loss in that Thursday, July 16 district semifinal match-up, with Jesup then going on to defeat Maquoketa Valley, 3-0, in the Saturday, July 18 district finals to earn a berth in the Tuesday, July 21 Substate 4 championship game against North Linn.
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