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The Waukon girls wrestling team was able to fit in just one competition this past week prior to the early print deadline for this week’s edition of The Standard due to the Christmas holiday. The Lady Indians hosted both Decorah and Riceville in a double-dual Tuesday, December 17, falling to the Class 1A top-rated Vikings by a 60-15 end result before recording a dual win over the visiting Wildcats by a 54-15 final count. Decorah also took care of Riceville by a 66-9 tally in the other dual contested on the mat that night.

The Waukon boys wrestling team made its season debut in front of its hometown fans and came away with a split result in its double-dual event featuring Decorah and Riceville Tuesday, December 17. The Indians first surrendered a 57-21 defeat to the visiting Vikings before wrestling Riceville to a 45-28 victory in the nightcap dual. Decorah handed Riceville a 63-18 defeat in the other dual wrestled at the event by those two squads.

In its only game played prior to the early print deadline for this week’s edition of The Standard due to the Christmas holiday, the Kee girls basketball team continued its early-season roll over its Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) foes, recording a third consecutive UIC victory where they surpassed 60 points on the scoreboard while limiting their foe to a score in the 20s. The Clayton Ridge Eagles became that latest doubled-up victim in a Tuesday, December 17 home match-up, as the Lady Hawks recovered from an early deficit where they allowed their Clayton Ridge guests their only double-digit quarter scoring of the ballgame before dominating the game’s remainder on the way to a 61-22 triumph.

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The Kee boys basketball team played through a busy week of three games this past week, putting two of those games in the win column, and each in a big way. The Hawks opened the week falling in an intra-county clash at home with Waukon by a 68-51 final result Monday, December 9, but then bounced back with two of their highest team scoring totals in several years, handling Postville at home with an 83-31 victory Tuesday, December 10 for the highest Hawk point total since consecutive 89- and 90-point games in February of 2022. Kee then rolled to even greater production to end this past week in a 105-52 romp at West Central Friday, February 13, scoring a new program record 74 points in the first half of the contest but coming up shy of the program’s single-game mark of 127 points.

The Kee girls basketball team played through its busiest week of competition thus far with three games played in five nights, putting two of those games in the win column to suffer its first loss of this young season. That initial defeat came in a close intra-county battle at home with Class 3A Waukon by just a 55-53 final margin Monday, December 9, but the Lady Hawks bounced back with decisive wins in Upper Iowa Conference play for the rest of the week, 64-24 at home over Postville Tuesday, December 10 followed by a 62-29 triumph at West Central Friday, December 13.

The Kee girls were next scheduled to host Clayton Ridge Tuesday, December 17 and Central Elkader Friday, December 20 prior to the holiday break. They will then return to the court in the new year to play at North Fayette Valley Friday, January 3 before playing at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, January 7 and then hosting Decorah and South Winneshiek back-to-back nights, Thursday, January 9 and Friday, January 10.

After starting off this 2024-2025 campaign with a pair of double-digit losses against non-conference foes the week prior, the Waukon boys basketball team balanced out that result with a pair of wins by double-digit totals on back-to-back nights this past week to play to an undefeated week’s worth of competition. The Indians broke free in the final minutes of an otherwise tight ballgame in non-conference action to get their first win of the season, 68-51, at Kee Monday, December 9 before opening up Northeast Iowa Conference play in convincing fashion with a 76-47 home victory over New Hampton Tuesday, December 10.

The past week started out much better for the Waukon girls basketball team than it ended, as the Lady Indians posted back-to-back wins on consecutive nights of play early in the week before having a three-game win streak snapped to end the week. Those wins included a 55-53 win at Class 1A sixth-rated Kee Monday, December 9 followed by a 67-52 home triumph over New Hampton to start Northeast Iowa Conference play Tuesday, December 10, but that victorious trend was brought to a close with a 56-33 loss at home to sixth-rated and undefeated Caledonia, MN Thursday, December 12.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to play at Decorah Tuesday, December 17 and at Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, December 19 to wrap up the pre-holiday portion of their schedule. They will return to the court in the new year with a Friday, January 3 game at Oelwein before playing at Crestwood Friday, January 10.

After the first two weeks of the season without a victory, the Waukon girls basketball team broke that trend during a busy past week of three games played in five nights. The Lady Indians book-ended that full week of competition with their first two victories of this winter’s campaign, posting a 47-30 win at MFL/MarMac Monday, December 2 before pulling off a comeback triumph, 68-67, at Spring Grove, MN Friday, December 5. In between those two wins, the bucket Tribe fell at home to North Fayette Valley Thursday, December 4 by a 47-34 final result.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled for another busy week with three more games, playing at Kee Monday, December 9 before hosting New Hampton Tuesday, December 10 and Caledonia, MN Thursday, December 12. The Waukon girls will then play at Decorah Tuesday, December 17 and at Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, December 19 to wrap up the pre-holiday portion of their schedule.

The Waukon boys basketball team got its 2024-2025 season off to a non-conference start this past week, playing a pair of Upper Iowa Conference squads to book-end the week’s worth of play. Both of those ballgames ended up falling shy of the win column for the bucket Tribe, as the Indians first fell at MFL/MarMac Monday, December 2 by a 67-45 final result and then suffered a 56-46 defeat at home to North Fayette Valley Thursday, December 5.

Waukon’s boys were next scheduled to play at Kee Monday, December 9 before hosting New Hampton Tuesday, December 10. A final busy week before the holiday break will include a Tuesday, December 17 contest at Decorah followed by a non-conference road game at Sumner-Fredericksburg Thursday, December 19 and then hosting Charles City Friday, December 20.

The Kee boys basketball team got its 2024-2025 season underway on the opposite ends of many spectrums this past week, playing two games that were split between away and home, non-conference and Upper Iowa Conference (UIC), larger school and smaller school, and ultimately, loss column and win column. The bucket Hawks opened this season falling to one of just three teams to beat them during last season’s historic campaign, suffering a similar but much closer fate in falling at Class 3A Charles City Tuesday, December 3 by a 66-57 final result in overtime. They bounced back in considerable fashion from that first loss with a 70-40 domination at home of UIC foe Turkey Valley Friday, December 6.