Kee softball team sweeps Upper Iowa Conference pair and other foes during the week, splits four weekend games to finish sixth at West Delaware Tournament
Pitches perfect game and homers ... Kee softball senior Kendra Cooper gets mobbed by teammates as she jumps toward home plate after blasting a two-run homerun in game one of the Hawks’ home doubleheader sweep of Starmont Monday, June 11. In addition to her power at the plate she was also magnificent on the mound in pitching a perfect game in that first contest, striking out nine of the 15 batters she faced in the ballgame. Photo by Macie Hill. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Kee softball team competed in its busiest week yet, playing a total of nine games in five days and putting seven of those games in the win column to improve to 19-4 on the season, including a yet unblemished 8-0 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play. Four more wins in UIC play began with home doubleheader sweeps of 10-0 and 11-1 over Starmont, both in five innings, Monday, June 11 and 12-0 and 15-0, both in four innings, over Turkey Valley Wednesday, June 13, with a 5-4 victory at Sumner-Fredericksburg placed neatly in between those twinbill triumphs Tuesday, June 12. The Lady Hawks then split four games to finish sixth at the West Delaware Tournament over the weekend, including a 6-4 win over East Buchanan to start the tournament followed by a 2-1 loss to Dyersville Beckman to wrap up Friday, June 15 action before Kee came back in the Saturday, June 16 competition to dominate Cascade with a 13-0 mercy-rule win in six innings and then fall by just a 1-0 defeat to Linn-Mar in nine innings.
The Hawks are next scheduled for another very busy week that will include a trio of varsity doubleheaders in Upper Iowa Conference play, including hosting Central Elkader Monday, June 18, playing at North Fayette Valley Wednesday, June 20 and hosting South Winneshiek Thursday, June 21 in a rescheduled date from May 30 before playing in the Decorah Tournament June 23. Kee’s diamond dwellers will then wrap up their regular season with two final UIC doubleheaders on the road, Monday, June 25 at MFL/MarMac and Wednesday, June 27 at West Central, before playing in the Don Bosco Tournament Friday and Saturday, June 29 and 30.
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