PLAY-OFF BOUND! Waukon football team blasts its way into the Class 2A State Play-Offs with 52-21 home win over New Hampton


Following the front line to a career-high ... Waukon football senior Graine Curtin (left) follows the blocking lead of fellow seniors Preston Dietrich and Ethan Baker (left to right at right) on his way toward the end zone in the Indians’ 52-21 home win over New Hampton Friday, October 18. Behind the blocking efforts of his front line and some tough yards after contact, Curtin racked up a career-best 138 yards and four touchdowns on 13 carries in the win. Baker also led Waukon’s defense with six solo tackles, while Curtin and Dietrich each added two solo stops. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.

Indians to open Class 2A State Play-Offs at 10th-rated Anamosa this Friday

Much more was at stake in the Waukon football team’s Friday, October 18 final regular season game at home against New Hampton than just another win or loss in the two teams’ recent rivalry of close games late in the season, as the game winner would earn qualification for the Class 2A State Play-Offs, while the losing team would see its season come to a close at the end of its regular season schedule.

With so much riding on this latest installment in the series that’s produced a combined scoreboard margin between the two teams of just three points in its last two games, the Indians established early in the ballgame that their current string of Class 2A State Play-Off qualifications was not going to end this season. Jumping out to a 24-0 headstart in the first quarter and benefiting from four Chickasaw turnovers throughout the contest, the grid Tribe claimed a 52-21 triumph and its eighth consecutive Class 2A Play-Off berth, qualifying for that season finale series for the 11th time in the past 13 seasons.

Finishing their regular season with a 3-5 overall record that includes a 2-3 mark in Class 2A District 3 play, the Indians secured the fourth and final qualifying spot in this season’s District 3 team standings. That fourth-place district finish earned the grid Tribe a first-round Class 2A Play-Off match-up this Friday with one of the seven championship teams from the other Class 2A Districts in the state, that first-round contest being at District 4 champion Anamosa at 7 p.m.

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