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The Waukon softball team played through a winless week of non-tournament games, scoring just a single run in five games played prior to weekend tournament action. The Lady Indians dropped an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader at home to New Hampton Monday, June 15 by scores of 9-0 and 17-0, fell at Decorah, 10-0, Tuesday, June 16, and were swept at Kee Wednesday, June 17 by scores of 11-1 and 8-0. Waukon’s girls were also scheduled to play four games in the West Delaware Tournament Friday and Saturday, June 19-20, with coverage results of those games to be reported in a future edition of The Standard.

The Kee baseball team had a comparatively light schedule this past week lightened even further by Mother Nature, as a Thursday, June 11 opportunity to play at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville against Underwood was canceled by rainy weather and is not likely to be made up this season. The three games the Hawks were able to play this past week resulted in a single win, 7-4 in a rain-shortened contest at Waukon Wednesday, June 10, before Kee took part in the Bettendorf Tournament and fell to a pair of much larger schools, 14-4 to Class 3A Davenport Assumption and 21-4 against the tournament host from Class 4A.

The Kee softball team played a total of six games this past week, putting all but one of those in the win column and having that lone loss come by just a single run to currently hold a 10-6 season record that includes a mark of 6-4 in Upper Iowa Conference play. The Lady Hawks’ lone loss of the week came right away in their first game played as they split a Wednesday, June 10 Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader at New Hampton with a 5-4 loss in eight innings followed by a 10-5 victory. A Monday, June 8 home doubleheader with Turkey Valley had been postponed to Friday, June 12 but still resulted in a Kee sweep of the Trojans by mercy-rule scores of 10-2 in six innings and 9-1 in five innings. Kee then wrapped up its week sweeping two games at the Riceville Tournament, including a 5-1 triumph over Class 3A 12th-rated Osage and an 8-4 victory over Riceville Saturday, June 13.

Although weather once again played a role in a week of Waukon baseball this past week, the Indians were able to play four games and put three of those in the win column to improve to an 8-3 season record that includes a 6-1 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play at this point in the season. The diamond Tribe had a Monday, June 8 home doubleheader with North Fayette Valley postponed to two different dates, one game of which was made up this past Friday, June 12 and resulted in a 15-3 triumph, and the other now being part of a June 29 two-game set that will also involve MFL/MarMac.

In what turned out to be its only competition of this past week, the Waukon softball team ended up on the short end of a couple narrow battles in an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader played at MFL/MarMac Friday, June 12. Originally scheduled for Monday, June 8, that original date was rained out and rescheduled, as was a Wednesday, June 10 home doubleheader with Postville that had to be rescheduled to July 2 due to wet field conditions.

In Friday’s dramatic double-dip, the Indians seemed to have the upperhand in opportunities, out-hitting the host Bulldogs by a 15-8 result but not necessarily being able to capitalize on those chances in falling by scores of 2-0 in game one and by an 11-10 result in a marathon contest that lasted 10 innings. The diamond Tribe stranded a total of 27 runners on base in the two games combined, including 14 of those in scoring position and leaving the bases loaded in two different innings.

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.