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The Waukon baseball team played to a winning record for the week for the first time this season, winning three of five games played on four consecutive nights. The Indians opened the week with a 13-1 dismantling of Clayton Ridge on the road in five innings Tuesday, June 11 before splitting a Northeast Iowa Conference home doubleheader with Crestwood Wednesday, June 12, suffering just a 2-1 loss before pulling out a 10-9 triumph in the nightcap. The baseball Tribe then recorded a 13-4 win over Osage at home Thursday, June 13 before finishing up the week with a 17-4 loss in five innings at home to Charles City.

The Waukon baseball team will host its annual Jeff Houg Tournament this Saturday, June 22, originally planning to host three other teams in a four-game bracketed tournament but having the team from Tripoli pull out of the tournament this past week. So, the tournament is currently slated to be played in round-robin format as of the Tuesday morning print deadline for this issue.

The tournament is scheduled to begin with a 10 a.m. match-up between the Indians and South Winneshiek, with Kee and South Winneshiek then slated to play at 12:30 p.m. The tournament will then wrap up with Kee and Waukon scheduled to play a 3 p.m. ballgame.
 

The Waukon softball team played a comparatively light schedule this past week in comparison to recent competition, ending up with a single win in three games. The Indians opened the week with a 6-0 loss at Crestwood Monday, June 10 before suffering a 10-8 road loss at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, June 11. The softball Tribe wrapped up the week returning home to post a 10-2 non-conference victory over Osage Thursday, June 13.

Now holding a 9-10 overall record that includes a 2-6 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians were next scheduled to host Charles City Monday, June 17 before playing a NEIC doubleheader at Decorah Wednesday, June 19, hosting Oelwein for the same Thursday, June 20 and returning to Decorah Saturday, June 22 for the Decorah Tournament. The softball Tribe will then play another NEIC double-dip at New Hampton Tuesday, June 25 before hosting Crestwood for the same Thursday, June 27.

The Kee baseball team played just a pair of doubleheaders this past week, but that limited schedule of just two dates, both on the road, carried some heavy weight as to where the baseball Hawks currently stand just beyond the midway point of their season. Having moved into the Class 1A top-10 of the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association rankings, the Kee baseball boys first traveled to Class 2A seventh-rated Cascade Tuesday, June 11 and earned a hard-fought split with the host Cougars, winning game one by a 7-5 count before falling in the nightcap, 6-3. The Hawks then traveled to previously Class 1A top-10 ranked South Winneshiek Thursday, June 13 for a battle between Upper Iowa Conference unbeatens, but came up just a run short in each game of the league twinbill by scores of 5-4 and 1-0.

The Waukon softball team played to a 2-3 record in its five games this past week, first riding a rollercoaster in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) competition early in the week before splitting two games played at the Riceville Tournament Saturday, June 8. The Indians first fell to Decorah at home, 17-4, Monday, June 3 before pulling out a 9-7 victory at Oelwein in eight innings Wednesday, June 5 and then falling to New Hampton at home, 8-3, Thursday, June 6. The Tribe then competed in the four-team Riceville Tournament Saturday, June 8, beginning with a 9-1 loss to eventual tournament champion St. Ansgar before finishing as the tournament’s third-place team with a 12-4 win over Osage.

The Kee softball team played to its first undefeated week of the season, improving its Upper Iowa Conference winning streak to now 66 consecutive games with a sweep of two more league opponents this past week. Those sweeps included two 12-0 home thumpings of Postville in four mercy-rule innings each Monday, June 3 before the Lady Hawks also swept Clayton Ridge in a pair of road games Wednesday, June 5 by scores of 15-3 in five innings and 9-7. In between those two UIC twinbills Kee was supposed to also travel to Crestwood Tuesday, June 4 but had that game postponed by weather to a date yet to be rescheduled.

The Waukon baseball team brought an end to a recent 11-game slide with a win in the middle of a five-game schedule this past week, posting a 10-0 mercy-rule win in six innings over Turkey Valley Wednesday, June 5. On each side of that win, the baseball Tribe suffered a 6-0 loss at Sumner-Fredericksburg Monday, June 3 and a 14-4 defeat in six innings to Oelwein at home Tuesday, June 4 before being swept in a Northeast Iowa Conference doubleheader at Decorah Friday, June 7 by scores of 13-3 in five innings and 15-0 in four frames.

The Kee baseball team played its way to its first undefeated week of the season, sweeping all four of its games this past week, all of them played on the road on just two different dates. The Hawks first kept their Upper Iowa Conference record unblemished with a Monday, June 3 sweep at Clayton Ridge by scores of 15-3 in six innings and 9-2. The Kee boys then traveled to St. Ansgar for a Saturday, June 8 three-team tournament, first defeating Charles City by a 4-3 result before doing likewise to the Class 1A ninth-rated host Saints by an 8-3 final result to win this year’s tournament title.

The Waukon baseball team played through a consistently busy week with five games played over four consecutive nights, with a single inning or play in a majority of those games making a difference between at least some of them ending up in the win column and the actual result of all five games missing that mark. Having the week book-ended with facing a pair of top 10-rated opponents in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians began the week with an 8-2 loss at Class 2A 10th-rated New Hampton Tuesday, May 28 before falling in the final inning at MFL/MarMac by an 8-7 final result Wednesday, May 29. A third consecutive road loss for the week, 7-4 at North Fayette Valley Thursday, May 30 in a make-up game from May 21, then gave way to the completing half of that high-end NEIC book-end, a pair of home losses to Class 3A ninth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock by just a 12-10 result in game one but by a 15-0 final count in four innings in the nightcap.

The Kee baseball team played to a nearly perfect week on the diamond, opening its Upper Iowa Conference schedule with final result perfection in winning four of five games this past week. That initial Upper Iowa Conference sweep came at home against MFL/MarMac by scores of 6-0 and 6-3 Tuesday, May 28 before the Hawks ventured on an overnight road trip that began at AGWSR with a 6-1 victory Friday, May 31. That road trip wrapped up in Newell-Fonda Saturday, June 1, where the Kee baseball boys took on two other teams that had just one loss so far on this young season. The Hawks first fell to Kingsley-Pierson, 10-0 in five innings, before bouncing back with a 9-8 win over the host Newell-Fonda squad.