Sports

The Waukon bowling program continues to modestly grow, as head coach Jerry Keenan looks forward to the start of his third season of the newest athletic activity at Waukon High School. The 2018-2019 Waukon bowling team will feature its largest boys’ squad ever with 19 competitors, while the girls squad grew just a bit from last season and now has eight young ladies taking part.

The coaching staff of the 2018 Waukon seventh grade football team says the team may not have ended up with the record it had set as a pre-season goal, but that there’s also much more to football than the season record. Coaches say this year’s team members showed perseverance as they came together as a team. They worked hard to improve not only skills but their knowledge of the game. Pictured above, left to right, are members of this year’s Waukon Indian seventh grade football team. Left to right - Front row: Dylan Hogan, Lucas Byrnes, Philip Clocksin, Jacob Courtney, Drew Weymiller, Allen Ludeking, Mason Wasson. Second row: Manager Danny Hennessy, Isaac Ericson, Bralin Regan, Ryley Burington, Wyatt Baxter, Drake Baures, Ryan Kolsrud, manager Ethyn Kelly. Third row: Gabe Waters, Tristian Dundee, Jack O’Neill, Thomas Fossum, Kaden Waters, Bryce Berg, Brody Gress.

The Waukon cheerleading squad has had a very busy and very successful initial month of its competition season, claiming several top finishes among many other high finishes in three recent team competitions and ultimately culminating in another State Championship. Pictured above holding their State Championship trophy in the Class 2A Time Out Division of competition at that State Championship held Saturday, November 3 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines are members of the Waukon cheerleading squad’s Time Out team. Left to right - Front row: Taya Duehr, Brittney Troester, Michaela Dehli, Harli Holzwarth, Cassidy Young. Back row: Coach Lexie Bieber, Allie Bieber, Chloe Johnson, Angel Flack, Hally Holzwarth, Hailey Howes, Coach Amy Bieber. The squad also finished seventh in the Class 2A Stunt competition, that team consisting of Taya Duehr, Michaela Dehli, Hally Holzwarth, Chloe Johnson and Allie Bieber.

The Kee girls basketball program comes off its most successful season in school history to further add to its most successful era in program history. A best-ever 22-2 season record last winter capped off an overall 82-14 record over the past four seasons for the Lady Hawk hoops program, with key pieces to both of those historical puzzles now having graduated.

Despite that graduation loss of five seniors from last winter’s squad, four of whom graced the Hawks starting line-up for multiple seasons and, thus, took a great deal of statistical and other leadership with them, the work ethic and intangible pieces of that success are seeds planted for others to harvest from in future seasons. A total of eight young ladies from last season’s roster of 14 players return this season ready to work on maintaining the recent trend of Kee girls basketball success as best they can.

A much anticipated match-up between the past two Class 2A State Champions featured a rematch of last season’s Class 2A semifinals between the Waukon football team and Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley (BHRV) Saturday, November 10 at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.

What wasn’t anticipated was the absence of the grid Tribe’s offensive leader, the eventual loss of both Waukon’s defensive leader and BHRV’s own offensive leader during the contest, four lost Indian turnovers and the eventual 48-12 loss suffered by the football Indians to have their 2018 season brought to a close. The grid Tribe’s leading offensive threat, junior Dawson Baures, played just two downs in the contest due to illness - the first of those being a 68-yard touchdown reception out of the backfield and the second being one of the Indians’ three lost fumbles in four first half turnovers that fueled BHRV to a 28-6 halftime edge.

Waukon football varsity assistant coach Jed Hemann has been selected as one of two coaches in Class 2A to be honored as an Iowa Football Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year for their efforts this season. Hemann and Union, La Porte City assistant coach Todd Carson will each receive the honor during halftime of the Class 2A State Championship game scheduled to be played this Friday, November 16 at 2 p.m. at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Hemann was nominated for the honor by Waukon head football coach Chad Beermann, meeting the criteria of being a currently active assistant coach for at least seven years from the freshman through varsity levels.
 

A Friday, December 7 event will see the Waukon High School gymnasium dedicated in honor and in the name of a man who likely spent more time and touched more lives in that same gym and during his coaching and teaching career than anyone else. During that Friday, December 7 home game series against Oelwein, a ceremony will be held between the junior varsity and varsity contests to unveil what will be the newly dedicated Dave Schoeberlein Gymnasium at Waukon High School.

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank in Waukon recently presented a check in the amount of $1,140.00 to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club from proceeds the bank received through its Homecoming tailgate party held Friday, October 5 at Waukon High School. Serving hamburgers and hot dogs grilled by the Allamakee County Cattlemen, the bank accepted free will donations with all proceeds being donated to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club. Pictured above at the check presentation to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club are, left to right, Patricia Kammeyer, Mary Jo Goodman and Peggy Berns of Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank, Danette and Dwight Jones of the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club, and Teresa Sommer of Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank. Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank has donated $11,763.08 to the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club in the nine years this event has been held.

The Waukon girls basketball team will be hosting a scrimmage series Monday, November 12, playing three levels of games against Sumner-Fredericksburg at the Waukon High School gym. The event will begin at 5 p.m. with a freshman contest, with the junior varsity game to be played at 6:15 p.m. and the varsity contest wrapping up the event at 7:30 p.m.

Admission to the event will be one canned food item per person. Those food items will then be distributed to the Allamakee County Food Shelf. The event is scheduled to be a competition against Sumner-Fredericksburg and is slated to be held again next season at Sumner-Fredericksburg to support that community’s local food shelf.
 

The Waukon football team won a defensive battle in the second half of its Friday, November 2 home game in the Class 2A State Play-Off quarterfinal round, scoring the only touchdown of the game's second half to overcome a 21-18 halftime deficit and win a 24-21 thriller over Algona. With its 24-21 triumph, the football Indians have earned their way to the Class 2A State Play-Off semifinal round for the second consecutive season and for the third time in the last six seasons. The grid Tribe’s continued play-off success has earned the Indians a repeat match-up with Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley this Saturday, November 10 at 4 p.m., the first of two Class 2A State Play-Off semifinal games to be played that evening in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
For full coverage of the football Tribe's quarterfinals victory over Algona, as well as information on the Indians' Class 2A semifinals rematch with Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley, pick up a copy of the November 7 Standard newspaper.