Kee boys basketball team gets off to strong start but has season ended with 83-63 loss at Wapsie Valley in second round of Class 1A District play
Senior drive ... Kee boys basketball’s lone senior Jacob Rolfs drives to the hoop in the Hawks’ 83-63 loss at Wapsie Valley in the second round of Class 1A District Tournament play Monday, February 13. Rolfs fired in a three-pointer and converted a free throw for four points before being sidelined by an injury in the game’s second quarter. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
The 2022-2023 season was brought to a close for the Kee boys basketball team in the second round of Class 1A District 6 Tournament play, but not before the Hawks served early notice that they were going to try their best to extend this season’s campaign deeper into postseason tournament play. Playing Monday, February 13 at the home of a Wapsie Valley squad that boasted a 16-4 season record coming into the contest but had just squeaked by them at home by a 64-61 count just before the holiday break in December, the bucket Hawks sprinted out of the gate to a double-digit lead right away in the first quarter of their District 6 rematch with the Warriors, but had those tables turned on them over the next three quarters to suffer an 83-63 season-ending loss.
The loss ends the Hawks’ 2022-2023 season with a 7-15 overall record that includes a 6-10 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play to place the Kee boys sixth in the final nine-team league standings. Wapsie Valley went on to also win its District 6 semifinals match-up with Nashua-Plainfield, 68-52, Thursday, February 16, advancing to a Tuesday, February 21 District 6 championship tilt with Central City that was scheduled to be played at Starmont High School.
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