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Home ›Waukon boys basketball team opens Class 2A District Tournament with 57-48 win at home over North Fayette Valley; rematch with Beckman Tuesday night
The Waukon boys basketball team took a successful first step down the postseason trail this past week, fending off another spirited effort from North Fayette Valley (NFV) in a Class 2A District 7 semifinal contest at home Thursday, February 17. Having pulled out just a 67-64 victory at home over the TigerHawks during the regular season in mid-January, the Indians used a 15-6 second quarter outscoring to end up accounting for the final scoreboard margin in a 57-48 Tribe victory that moved the Indians down that postseason road.
The win extended the Indians’ current win streak to five games and improved their season record to 15-5 to include a mark of 9-3 that represents the Tribe’s best NEIC result since the 2006-2007 season and ended up landing the Indians in second place after Decorah (10-2 in NEIC) edged Crestwood (8-4 in NEIC), 52-51, in a final NEIC regular season game played this past week. The Indians are now scheduled to play Dyersville Beckman Tuesday, February 23 in the Class 2A District 7 championship game, beginning at 7 p.m. Beckman owns the last loss the bucket Tribe has suffered this season and the Indians’ only loss in its last 12 games, a 70-65 non-conference defeat January 23 in the third game played by the Tribe during three a stretch of three consecutive nights of basketball.
The winner of that district finals contest advances on to play in the Substate 4 championship game this Saturday, February 27, beginning at 7 p.m. at a site to be determined, for the right to advance to the Class 2A State Tournament. That Substate opponent will be the winner of a West Branch vs. Anamosa district finals match-up.
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