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The Kee boys basketball team remained in search of its first win of the new year after having two games played this past week against Large School division Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) foes both end up shy of halting what has now grown to a nine-game losing streak for the basketball Hawks that began over a month ago. Kee first traveled to the home of one of the frontrunners of that Large School division, falling by a 73-29 result at South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 13, before being dealt a 61-45 loss at home by MFL/MarMac Friday, January 16. A Saturday, January 17 non-conference game with Valley Lutheran was called off due to weather conditions, with a make-up date yet to be announced.

After having its season-opening undefeated streak snapped just two games into the new year, the Waukon boys basketball team began a new streak this past week, playing through an undefeated week of three games to now win four more games in a row since this season’s lone loss. Those three wins included a 60-31 non-conference victory at Independence Monday, January 12 before recording back-to-back victories against Upper Iowa Conference teams from the Small School division, 76-50 at home over Central Elkader Thursday, January 15 and 55-40 at Turkey Valley Friday, January 16.

The Indians were next scheduled to host South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 20 before playing another back-to-back pair to end this week, hosting MFL/MarMac Friday, January 23 before playing Dubuque Wahlert Saturday, January 24 in the Upper Iowa University Shootout played in Fayette. The Waukon boys will then play at New Hampton Tuesday, January 27 and then at Charles City Friday, January 30.

The return to the court following the holiday break was a busy one for the Waukon boys basketball team, as the Indians played four games in a span of seven days. That return also saw the end to the bucket Tribe’s undefeated start to this winter’s campaign, as fellow former Northeast Iowa Conference squad Crestwood handed the Indians their first loss of this season in a battle for the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) lead between two teams yet to be beaten in UIC play, a 52-46 Waukon defeat in a Thursday, January 8 road make-up game from a December 9 weather postponement.

The Waukon girls basketball team returned to competition after the start of the new year, playing three games within its first week back on the court and winning just one of those. The Lady Indians started the new year with a 51-38 victory over Grand Meadow, MN Saturday, January 3 in the annual Iowa-Minnesota Border Battle hosted by Luther College in Decorah. They then fell in back-to-back road games in Upper Iowa Conference play, losing at Crestwood by a 38-30 result Thursday, January 8 before suffering a similar fate, 50-46, at Kee Friday, January 9.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to play at Independence Monday, January 12 before hosting Central Elkader Thursday, January 15 and playing at Class 1A ninth-rated Turkey Valley Friday, January 16. They will then host a pair of Upper Iowa Conference foes, including South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 20 and MFL/MarMac Friday, January 23.

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The Kee girls basketball team opened the new year taking on a trio of former Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) teams, recording wins over two of those three larger school squads and having some program history rewritten along the way. That stretch began with a 54-34 loss at Class 4A Decorah Friday, January 2 before the Hawks recorded back-to-back victories over former NEIC teams that are now members of the Upper Iowa Conference, including a 68-46 triumph at New Hampton Tuesday, January 6, and a 50-46 victory at home over Waukon Friday, January 9.

The Kee boys basketball team was looking to make the start of the new year the start to a new direction for its results after finishing off the 2025 portion of its schedule with five consecutive losses. Playing a pair of larger schools that just became members of the Upper Iowa Conference this season, the Hawks couldn’t quite reverse their fortune, falling at New Hampton by a 68-42 result Tuesday, January 6 before battling fellow Allamakee County squad Waukon to a 48-41 loss at home Friday, January 9.

A final busy stretch prior to the holiday break for the Kee girls basketball team saw the Lady Hawks play three games over a five-day span and put two of those three games in the win column. The only loss in that pre-holiday series came to Class 3A 14th-rated Center Point-Urbana, 52-48 in overtime, in a game that was recently scheduled for Monday, December 22. On each side of that lone loss that was close to not even happening, Kee’s girls posted a pair of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) victories at home, including a 55-49 win over UIC newcomer Crestwood Friday, December 19 and a 48-32 triumph over Central Elkader Tuesday, December 23 in a game rescheduled from December 9 due to winter weather.

The Kee boys basketball team entered the holiday break in the grips of a five-game non-winning streak, falling in two more games that included one on each side of the final weekend before this year’s holiday break began. The Hawks first fell at home to Crestwood by a 77-40 final result Friday, December 19 before suffering a 61-42 home loss to Central Elkader Tuesday, December 23 in a game rescheduled from a December 9 winter weather postponement.

The Hawks will return to court action following the holiday break Tuesday, January 6 to play at New Hampton before hosting Waukon Friday, January 9. They will then play at South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 13 before playing back-to-back games at home, including Friday, January 16 against MFL/MarMac and Saturday, January 17 against Valley Lutheran.

In its only competition of the week prior to the holiday break from school, the Waukon girls wrestling team took part in another large tournament event when the Lady Indians competed in the Bubba Randles Winter Classic hosted by Cedar Rapids Prairie Saturday, December 20. A total of 26 teams involving nearly 200 wrestlers were competing in the tournament, and the Indians had 11 wrestlers taking to the mat for them, with four of those mat ladies bringing home placewinnings within the top eight of their respective weight class to help the mat Tribe tally 47.5 team points and finish 17th in the final team standings.

The Waukon girls basketball team played a single game to start this past week, hosting a single-win Clayton Ridge squad Tuesday, December 16 and taking care of business fairly easily. Holding the visiting Eagles scoreless through the entire first quarter of play, the bucket Tribe’s defense didn’t allow Clayton Ridge to score more than seven points in any of the game’s four frames while tallying double digits in each period to end up with a 49-15 win.

The Lady Indians had a Thursday, December 18 home game with Decorah postponed to February 5 due to winter weather and were also scheduled to play at West Central Friday, December 19, with results of that game to be printed in the December 31 edition of The Standard due to an earlier print deadline. The Waukon boys will return to the court after the holidays with a Saturday, January 3 non-conference game against Grand Meadow, MN at Luther College in Decorah.