Kee baseball splits pair of district games to have season ended
Kee baseball eighth grade third baseman Lewis Peters tags out a Wapsie Valley runner during a rundown in the Hawks’ 7-1 home win over Wapsie Valley in the quarterfinal round of Class 1A District 7 Tournament play Tuesday, July 12. Peters smacked a double and drew a walk to score a team-high two runs in the Hawk win. Photo by Mikey Mitchell. 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 2016 season brought to a close in one of the most unexpected fashions, bringing a more typical Kee baseball season of 20-plus wins to an end in not so typical Kee baseball fashion. After a rare first-round postseason tournament loss to Wapsie Valley last season, the Hawks opened this summer’s postseason tournament with a bit of revenge, paying back those Warriors with a 7-1 defeat in the Class 1A District 7 quarterfinals Tuesday, July 12 at home. That win matched the Hawks up with fellow Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) squad Edgewood-Colesburg, a team Kee had swept in two previous UIC contests but that soundly turned the tables on the Hawks to hand them their worst defeat of the season, a 19-0 season-ending loss in four innings in a District 7 semifinal game played at Jesup Thursday, July 14.
The loss ends Kee’s 2016 season with a 24-15 overall record that included an Upper Iowa Conference season championship mark of 14-2. The semifinal win by Edgewood-Colesburg advanced the Vikings on to the District 7 championship game Saturday, July 16 at and against eighth-rated Jesup, who defeated Turkey Valley by a 13-1 semifinal result in five innings. Edgewood-Colesburg went on to also upset Jesup by a 7-1 count in that Saturday match-up, advancing to the Class 1A Substate 4 championship game Tuesday, July 19 at Manchester to play fifth-rated Alburnett for the right to advance to the Class 1A State Tournament.
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