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The Lansing Fish Days committee is recruiting players for a “Granny Basketball” team that will play exhibition games at the annual Fish Days celebration this year. The team will consist of ladies 55 and older, with or without any athletic ability.

The slow-moving games will be played using 1920s women’s basketball rules, including three courts, two dribbles, no physical contact, and no running or jumping. “Hurrying” is allowed. Players will wear typical 1920s uniforms: bloomers, middy blouses, and black stockings. No bare legs or upper arms are permitted.

Thursday, April 21, the Waukon boys eighth grade track and field squad hosted a four-team meet. No team scores were kept at the event, however the Tribe matched talents with athletes from Crestwood, Decorah, and Valley.

The seventh grade girls’ track team competed in its first meet of the season on Thursday, April 14 at Waverly. Nashua and Charles City also competed in the quadrangular. No team scores were kept.

Relays winning first place for Waukon were the 4x800 team of Brittany Kruger, Katie Blocker, Leeta Sivesind, and Sarah Maslo in 12:06 and the 4x400 of Thea Woodbeck, Chelsea Mathis, Cassie Thorson, and Leah Cooper in 5:11.

Waukon’s seventh grade boys track and field team hosted a quadrangular meet last Thursday, April 21. Crestwood, Decorah, and Valley competed. No team scores were kept.

UPPER IOWA SPEEDWAY - APRIL 23
- By Dwight Jones

You know April in Iowa - it can be 80 degrees or 40 degrees. For the first night of racing at Decorah’s Upper Iowa Speedway for the 2005 season, it was the latter. However, roughly 90 cars took to the track to get the season underway following a week one rain-out. Highlights include:

Most people are probably unaware that my first area as a Conservation Officer were the Sioux and O’Brien counties. I worked there for about a year before transferring out. The view over in far northwestern Iowa is quite a bit different than the northeast. You can stand on an eastern edge of a county and see the western edge. The land is very flat. There is also very little for trees. My old supervisor used to say that the woodpeckers had to carry their lunch.

Orders are now being taken for the 2005 Class 3A Decorah district/regional track and field championship t-shirts. Shirts are $8 each and will feature logos on the front and back of a white t-shirt. Orders may be picked up at the May 13 district/regional event in Decorah. A limited number of shirts will be available the day of the meet for $10 a piece.

The shirts, sold by the Decorah Viking Athletic Booster Club (DVABC), must be preordered by this Friday, April 29. To order see order form in the 4-2705 edition of the Waukon Standard newspaper.

The Waukon girls track and field squad participated in a pair of meets during their most recent week of competition. Tuesday, April 19, the Indians finished third overall at the Crestwood Invitational. Two days later, Thursday, April 21, Waukon took eighth place in a 14-team field at the North Fayette Invitational.

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Rain made for a long night for the Indians Tuesday, April 19, as they competed at the Crestwood Invitational. Waukon eventually took third in the team points standing with 76. Decorah won the event with 155 team points.

Only one meet was scheduled for the Waukon boys track and field team last week, a Monday, April 18 event at Decorah. That lone meet, however, was quite important. For a handful of Waukon competitors, it was the final chance to qualify for a spot in this week’s Drake Relays.

Seniors Kyle McCormick, Eric Osterhaus, and Ryan Snitker all advanced to the April 28-30 event at Drake University in Des Moines.

Osterhaus made the cut eighth overall in the 3200 and will run Thursday at 6:15 p.m. in a field of 21 runners.

Every year, more than 3.5 million children ages 14 and younger suffer sports injuries serious enough to require medical treatment. Nearly half these injuries result from solo activities such as cycling, skating, and skateboarding; however, roughly one out of four participants in youth soccer, football, or baseball has been injured at least once, along with about 15 percent of kids playing basketball and 12 percent of kids playing softball.