Kee track girls finally get to compete outdoors, place fifth at Waukon Early Bird


Foursome wins pair of relays ... The relay quartet of (left to right in the three surrounding photos) junior Alaina Bakewell, sophomore Mallory Mohn, junior Jaylyn Walleser and senior Haley Meyer topped a pair of relay fields at the Waukon Early Bird Invitational Tuesday, April 12. The foursome won the distance medley in a clocking of 4:29.25, and wrapped up the meet with a victory in the 4x400 in a time of 4:28.01. Meyer also added another pair of individual golds to her evening’s work, besting the 3000 meter run field with a clocking of 11:19.03, as well as the 800 meter run in a time of 2:26.35. View and find out how to purchase these photos and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.

For the first time in four scheduled tries, the Kee girls track team was finally able to compete outdoors this past week, but still was only able to get one of its two scheduled meets in for the week. The Lady Hawks competed at the Waukon Early Bird Invitational Tuesday, April 12 but had their Thursday, April 14 MFL/MarMac Invitational canceled due to cold, windy weather.

Within their first outdoor competition of the season, the Kee girls tallied 80 points to finish fifth in the meet’s field of eight teams. Half of those points came from the Lady Hawks’ four first-place event finishes, with Kee also adding a second-place finish to that mix.

The Kee girls were next slated to compete Tuesday, April 19 at Crestwood before hosting their own home invitational Thursday, April 21, details of which are printed in a shaded box elsewhere on these Sports pages. The Hawks will then take part in the Clayton Ridge Invitational Tuesday, April 26 and then the MFL/MarMac Invitational Thursday, April 28 before competing at Edgewood-Colesburg Monday, May 2 and then at the Upper Iowa Conference Meet at Postville Thursday, May 5.

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