Waukon baseball team has season ended by fourth-rated West Delaware


Waukon senior first baseman Brock Waters latches on to this fly ball as a West Delaware baserunner tries to get back to first base and some of Waters’ fellow senior teammates, (left to right in photo background above) pitcher Sully Bucheit, left fielder Marshall Lyons and shortstop Jake Ronan, look on. After making the catch, Waters was able to tag out the baserunner before he got back to the base for a double play in the first inning of the Indians’ 14-0 loss at the home of the fourth-rated Hawks in the opening round of Class 3A district tournament play Friday, July 17. The four Indians pictured above joined fellow seniors Adam Benzing, Landon Sivesind and Michael Howe in wrapping up their high school careers with the postseason tournament loss. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link.

The Waukon baseball team had its 2015 season brought to a close in a Class 3A first-round district tournament loss at the home of fourth-rated West Delaware Friday, July 17. The host Hawks proved their high regard in limiting the Indians to just a single hit while knocking around 13 of their own on the way to a 14-0 Indian loss in five innings. The loss brings the Tribe’s 2015 season to a close with a 12-17 overall record that includes a mark of 4-14 to place the Indians seventh in the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standings. West Delaware went on to defeat Independence - 14-11 first-round winners over Decorah - by a 2-1 final result in the Monday, July 20 district championship game to earn a Wednesday, July 22 Substate 3 championship game match-up with second-rated Waverly-Shell Rock, 4-2 winners over Charles City in Monday, July 20 district championship play. That substate winner will advance on to next week’s Class 3A State Tournament.

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