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The Waukon boys basketball team got the 2022 portion of its schedule underway with its busiest week of the season, saving its best for last for the week with its only win of the week and its second victory of the season, a 63-58 edging of Turkey Valley at the Upper Iowa University Winter Classic in Fayette Saturday, January 8. Prior to that triumph, the Indians opened the new year with three consecutive losses, 64-60 at home to Kee Monday, January 3, 59-44 at home to Crestwood Thursday, January 6 in a game rescheduled from December 10, and a 71-67 loss at Charles City Friday, January 7.

The Waukon girls basketball team returned to action following the holiday break, playing in its busiest week of the season and ending up with its most successful week of the season by winning all four games. That undefeated effort began with wins of 56-33 at home over Kee Monday, January 3 before three consecutive nights of triumph to end the week. That final streak included a 41-38 home edging of Crestwood Thursday, January 6 in a game rescheduled from December 10 by winter weather, a 66-36 road rout of Charles City Friday, January 7 and a 58-42 win over Wapsie Valley Saturday, January 8 in the Winter Classic at Upper Iowa University in Fayette.

Senior Reagan Mudderman becomes Kee girls basketball’s all-time leading scorer

The Kee girls basketball team returned to the court following its holiday break, returning to the win column just one time in a busy week of three games for its first week of the new calendar year. That lone Lady Hawk victory of the week also featured some Kee girls basketball history, as a 44-32 home win over South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 4 saw Lady Hawk senior Reagan Mudderman become the program’s all-time leading scorer early on in her 25-point performance in the contest, surpassing the previous mark of 1,364 points scored by Chandran (Duffy) Lapel during her Kee girls basketball career during the 2004-2007 seasons.

The Kee boys basketball returned from its holiday break to play its busiest week of the entire season, finding some early success before losing some steam in its fourth and final game for a lone loss of the week. That early success began with back-to-back nights of victory in a pair of close ballgames, 64-60 at Waukon Monday, January 3 and 60-55 Tuesday, January 4 at home against South Winneshiek, with a third straight victory of the new year coming at home Friday, January 7 against West Central, 74-44. Kee’s fourth game of the week, and its second of a second pair of back-to-back battles, saw the bucket Hawks run out of gas a bit in falling to Hudson by a 74-49 result as part of a multi-team, multi-game Winter Classic event hosted by Upper Iowa University in Fayette Saturday, January 8.

Waukon High School 2014 graduate Parker Hesse had a career day, thus far, in the Atlanta Falcons’ 29-15 loss at Buffalo Sunday, January 2. Hesse was called up to the active roster from the Falcons’ practice squad prior to Sunday’s game after starting tight end Hayden Hurst was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list Wednesday, December 29 when he tested positive for COVID-19.

The Kee girls basketball team played a pair of games early in this past week just prior to their holiday break, ending up with different results at different locations in and out of the Upper Iowa Conference. The Lady Hawks first fell in a non-conference battle at Wapsie Valley Monday, December 20 by a 61-42 final result before bouncing back Tuesday, December 21 with a 46-40 victory at home over Clayton Ridge in Upper Iowa Conference play to currently hold a 4-4 season record that includes a 3-2 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play.

Since starting the season with three consecutive wins, the Kee boys basketball team has been in the grips of a four-game losing streak, adding two more games to that skid on back-to-back nights of competition just prior to the holiday break. The Hawks were first dealt an 83-55 non-conference loss at Wapsie Valley Monday, December 20 before falling by a 56-48 result at home to Clayton Ridge Tuesday, December 21 to currently hold a 3-4 season record that includes a 2-2 start to their Upper Iowa Conference schedule.

The Waukon boys basketball team wrapped up the 2021 portion of its season schedule with a split of two games at home to earn the Indians’ first victory of the 2021-2022 season. Playing on back-to-back nights early in the week prior to starting the holiday break from school and competition, the bucket Tribe pieced together a 51-47 comeback triumph over Oelwein Monday, December 20 before suffering a 93-33 loss to Decorah the following night, Tuesday, December 21.

The Waukon girls basketball team had just one game on its schedule this past week heading into the holiday break, that being a home Northeast Iowa Conference contest against Decorah Tuesday, December 21. Playing the visiting Vikings even in each of the latter quarters in the game’s two halves, those even frames were not enough to overcome the slight Decorah advantages in both the first and third periods of the contest that ultimately led to a 63-56 Indian defeat.

The Waukon girls basketball team got its Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) season underway this past week, earning a split against its first two league foes. The Lady Indians first secured a 49-45 win at New Hampton Tuesday, December 14 before falling at home to Waverly-Shell Rock by a 36-26 final result. Holding a 3-4 season record that includes a 1-1 start to their NEIC schedule, the Indians were next scheduled to host Decorah Tuesday, December 21 to wrap up the pre-holiday portion of this season’s schedule. The Tribe will return to action after the holidays Monday, January 3 when they host Kee before hosting a January 6 make-up date with Crestwood, traveling to Charles City Friday, January 7 and then playing Wapsie Valley at Upper Iowa University in Fayette Saturday, January 8.

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