Busy week of eight games all end up in win column for Kee baseball, including sweeps of Decorah, Turkey Valley, MFL/MarMac and Shooky Fink Tournament


Game-one pitching win ... Kee baseball senior pitcher Dalton Dibert unloads a pitch in the Hawks’ home doubleheader sweep of Decorah Monday, May 23. Dibert secured the game-one victory on the mound and also scored three runs and drove in one more throughout the two non-conference victories. Photo by Anissa Stanley.

Following an initial week of just one game that started the 2022 season off with a loss, the Kee baseball team’s schedule and momentum picked up considerably this past week as the Hawks played a full slate of eight games and pushed every one of them to the win column. Kee’s undefeated week included home doubleheader sweeps of Decorah Monday, May 23, 7-2 and 11-6, and Turkey Valley Tuesday, May 24, 6-0 and 7-3, before a road doubleheader sweep at MFL/MarMac Thursday, May 26, 8-2 and 20-4. The Hawks then swept through a pair of Class 1A foes at their own Shooky Fink Tournament in New Albin Saturday, May 28, blasting Wapsie Valley by a 14-0 count in five innings and doing similarly to Alburnett, 8-0, to complete their undefeated week of competition and improve Kee’s season record to 8-1 overall with a 4-0 start to its Upper Iowa Conference schedule.

The Kee boys were next scheduled to host Postville Tuesday, May 31 and North Fayette Valley Thursday, June 2 before traveling to Eddysville-Blakesburg for a Friday, June 3 game against New London and Saturday, June 4 tournament action. The Hawks will then host Clayton Ridge for a varsity doubleheader Monday, June 6 and play Nashua-Plainfield at Upper Iowa University in Fayette Tuesday, June 7 before playing at South Winneshiek Thursday, June 9, returning to Upper Iowa Friday, June 10 to play Don Bosco and then playing in the St. Ansgar Tournament Saturday, June 11.

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