Kee baseball team has UIC repeat snatched away in 2-2 final week of conference play
Kee baseball junior pitcher Tucker Colsch fires a pitch in the Hawks’ home doubleheader sweep of Crestwood Thursday, June 29. Colsch pitched the final three innings of the Hawks’ 5-4 first-game win, giving up four hits and no walks while striking out four batters. Photo by Jordyn Burroughs. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
It was a fateful final week of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play for the Kee baseball team, as the Hawks were dealt an early blow to their hopes of a repeat as UIC season champions but could not get the help to recover from that blow later in the week. That UIC damage was done by a rare home doubleheader loss to North Fayette Valley Monday, June 26 by scores of 6-0 and 8-0 that dropped the Hawks to three UIC losses on the season, just one loss behind Clayton Ridge/Central’s two conference losses on the season that, ironically, were handed to them by Kee.
The Hawks finished the week strong with doubleheader sweeps of 5-4 and 5-4 over Crestwood at home Thursday, June 29 and 16-1 in five innings and 8-3 at MFL/MarMac Friday, June 30 to wrap up Upper Iowa Conference play with a 13-3 UIC mark. The Hawks needed Turkey Valley to at least split with Clayton Ridge/Central in their Friday, July 30 UIC doubleheader, but the WarEagles were able to pull off the sweep to secure this season’s UIC crown with a final mark of 14-2.
Now holding a 20-8 overall record on the season, the baseball Hawks were next scheduled to wrap up their regular season by hosting Maquoketa Valley Monday, July 3 and then playing both Riceville and West Fork Thursday, July 6 at Luther College in Decorah. Kee is then scheduled to begin postseason tournament play Tuesday, July 11, with further details of the Hawks’ postseason being printed in a shaded box elsewhere on the same Sports pages in the print edition and e-edition of The Standard.
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