Depleted Waukon football team has repeat championship hopes dashed in 48-12 loss to perennial power Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley in Class 2A Semifinals


Semifinals send-off ... Members of the Waukon football team carry their Class 2A Semifinalist trophy toward their fans after having their season ended, 48-12, in the Class 2A semifinal round by Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley Saturday, November 10 at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. This season’s trip to the semifinals marks the second consecutive semifinals berth for the grid Tribe and its third such advancement in the past six seasons, with the Indians having ended Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley’s Class 2A state title defense in last season’s semifinal round and having that favor returned this season. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.

A much anticipated match-up between the past two Class 2A State Champions featured a rematch of last season’s Class 2A semifinals between the Waukon football team and Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley (BHRV) Saturday, November 10 at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.

What wasn’t anticipated was the absence of the grid Tribe’s offensive leader, the eventual loss of both Waukon’s defensive leader and BHRV’s own offensive leader during the contest, four lost Indian turnovers and the eventual 48-12 loss suffered by the football Indians to have their 2018 season brought to a close. The grid Tribe’s leading offensive threat, junior Dawson Baures, played just two downs in the contest due to illness - the first of those being a 68-yard touchdown reception out of the backfield and the second being one of the Indians’ three lost fumbles in four first half turnovers that fueled BHRV to a 28-6 halftime edge.

The Indians wrapped up their 2018 campaign with a 10-2 season record that included the first-ever undefeated district championship for the Tribe grid program in its Class 2A era of football. The Indians book-ended a 10-game winning streak with a 24-20 season-opening loss to Class 3A State Play-Off quarterfinalist Decorah before their season-ending defeat this past Saturday.

BHRV will now advance to their second Class 2A State Championship game in the past three seasons, the Nighthawks’ season-ending loss to the Indians being their only roadblock last season. The Nighthawks will face an undefeated PCM-Monroe team that has outscored its opponents by a combined 574-103 this season. That Class 2A State Championship match-up is scheduled to take place this Friday, November 2 at 2 p.m. in the UNI-Dome.

“One advantage they have is their 27 seniors, and over 100 kids on their 9-12 teams,” Coach Beermann said of BHRV’s recent dynastic run of three consecutive Class 2A semifinal appearances continuing to build on a more than decade-long streak of State Play-Off appearances in both Class 2A and 3A. “You see that out of several of those teams from the largely Dutch northwest Iowa teams. They have a number of tall, rangy, athletic kids, and just enough pluggers up front on defense to eat up blocks and let their athletes run to the ball on defense. On offense, they do a nice job of getting those kids into space and letting them make some plays. PCM is not quite as explosive, but could have some success. BHRV’s mix of players and philosophy are especially tough in the Dome.”

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