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The Kee baseball team played a half dozen games this past week and ended up winning four of those six contests. The Hawks split a pair of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) games at home with Clayton Ridge Monday, June 1, winning by an 11-10 final result before falling by a 12-1 count in the nightcap. Kee then defeated MFL/MarMac at home Wednesday, June 3 by a 7-1 final result and claimed a 15-0 mercy-rule win over Postville Thursday, June 4 before splitting another pair of games at the Madrid Invitational Tournament, falling to eventual tournament champion Estherville Lincoln Central, 8-1, in the opening round before winning the tournament’s consolation championship with a 21-0 triumph over Des Moines North.

The Kee softball team played through a busy week of eight games this past week, putting five of those contests in the win column. That fuller schedule started with a sweep of two games at West Central Monday, June 1 by scores of 13-4 and 14-3, both in mercy-rule endings of five innings each. They then began splitting the rest of their week’s results, including a home doubleheader with Crestwood Wednesday, June 3 with an 8-7 loss in eight innings and a 6-3 victory. Four games played over two days at the North Fayette Valley Tournament Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6 also ended up in a split result both days, including a 12-2 loss to Oelwein followed by a 7-2 win over Maquoketa in Friday’s action, and then a 10-8 win over Independence followed by an 11-3 loss to Dyersville Beckman in a pair of Saturday games.

Mother Nature was the only one the Waukon baseball team couldn’t finish in front of this past week, as the Indians won three games they were able to complete early in the week but had their final two games of the week claimed by weather, including a Thursday, June 4 home game with New Hampton that was suspended in the fourth inning and is scheduled to be completed June 23, beginning at 5 p.m. The Tribe’s Friday, June 5 non-conference date at Cascade was also postponed due to wet field conditions, with a make-up date yet to be determined at this point.

The three games the diamond Tribe was able to complete all ended up in the win column in fairly convincing fashion against Upper Iowa Conference opponents. The Indians first swept a road doubleheader at Crestwood Monday, June 1 by scores of 12-1 in five innings and 19-3, before picking up another road victory at Turkey Valley Wednesday, June 3 by a 13-4 final result.

The Waukon softball team played through six games this past week, putting one of those games in the win column. The diamond Tribe dropped a pair of games at South Winneshiek Monday, June 1 by scores of 9-0 and 8-5 before splitting two games at West Central Wednesday, June 3, falling in game one by a 7-4 result before winning the nightcap, 3-1. The week wrapped up with two losses Saturday, June 6 at the North Fayette Valley Tournament, with the Waukon girls first falling to Boyer Valley by a 5-2 result before also coming up a bit shy against Waverly-Shell Rock, 4-0.

The Waukon baseball team played through an initially busy week of four nights that got a little less busy when the first of those, a Tuesday, May 26 home game with Clayton Ridge, was suspended by lightning in the third inning with the Indians holding a 4-0 lead. Preliminary plans are to finish that game Tuesday, June 9 at 6 p.m.

The remainder of the week saw the Indians put two of their remaining games in the win column, as the baseball Tribe suffered its lone loss of the week, 7-6, at home to Decorah Wednesday, May 27. Waukon’s diamond dwellers wrapped up the week with two final road games they put in the win column, including a 10-2 victory at North Fayette Valley Thursday, May 28 and a 12-2 triumph at Sumner-Fredericksburg Friday, May 29.

The Waukon softball team got its 2026 season underway with three games played this past week, putting one of those three contests in the win column. The Lady Indians opened their season splitting a home doubleheader with Clayton Ridge Wednesday, May 27, falling by a 23-6 final result in five innings in game one but bouncing back to win the nightcap by an 11-10 result in eight innings. The diamond Tribe wrapped up the week with a 16-3 loss at home to Oelwein in five innings Friday, May 29.

The softball Indians were next scheduled to play an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) varsity doubleheader at South Winneshiek Monday, June 1 and play the same at West Central Wednesday, June 3 before playing two games in the North Fayette Valley Tournament Saturday, June 6 against Boyer Valley and Waverly-Shell Rock. The Waukon girls will then play another UIC varsity doubleheader at MFL/MarMac Monday, June 8 before hosting Postville for the same Wednesday, June 10.

The Kee baseball team played a total of seven games from Saturday to Saturday of this past week, winning three of those seven games. Prior to the Memorial Day holiday, the Hawks played two games at the Don Bosco Tournament Saturday, May 23, falling to Waterloo Columbus by a final score of 6-4 and also surrendering an 8-3 loss to the host Dons. Kee secured its first win of the season in splitting a home doubleheader with Decorah Monday, May 25, winning game one by an 11-9 result before falling in the nightcap, 6-0. The Hawks recorded a 7-0 win at Crestwood Tuesday, May 26 before wrapping up the week splitting two games at their own Shooky Fink Tournament Saturday, May 30, falling to Class 1A fourth-rated Wapsie Valley, 12-4, but bouncing back with a 7-5 win over Starmont.

Senior Brandon Leppert runs to 800 meter All-State honors, joins forces with fellow seniors Kelby Cahalan and Sam Stock, sophomore Parker Knox for same in 4x800

The Waukon boys track and field team had nine young men competing in a total of five events where all high school track and field athletes long to be this past week. The performances turned in by that collection of three seniors, two juniors and four sophomores at this year’s Class 2A State Track and Field Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Thursday-Saturday, May 21-23 resulted in a trio of top-10 finishes that include a pair of All-State finishes within the top eight of this season’s Class 2A State Meet field and a pair of new school records along the way.

Lady Indians’ 4x800 and 4x200 relays set new school records; Shuttle hurdle relay claims All-State finish

The Waukon girls track and field team took one of its largest contingencies ever to every high school track and field team’s ultimate destination during the latter half of this past week, having 14 young ladies compete in nine different events Thursday-Saturday, May 21-23 at the Class 2A State Track and Field Meet held at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. That sizable representation brought home a trio of top-10 performances in a field of Class 2A competitors who turned in some of the best results in the history of the Class 2A season grand finale, with two of the Lady Indian efforts resulting in the best performances in the history of the Waukon girls track and field performances with new school records.

Lady Indians have 14 different young ladies qualify in total of nine events for season grand finale

An extensive weather delay full of lightning and rain that pushed the finish of the Class 2A State Qualifying Meet at North Fayette Valley Thursday, May 14 into more than an eight-hour ordeal that ended just past midnight certainly proved to be worth the wait for the Waukon girls track and field team to accomplish something that had not been done in 40 years.