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The Kee boys basketball team played its way to a 4-17 record this winter, battling through its lowest per game scoring average in the past 10 seasons. That 47.2 points per game average posted by this season’s squad couldn’t quite keep pace with the 57.8 points per game the Hawks allowed on defense this winter.

“As a team, we came close to knocking off Turkey Valley in the first round of the tournament, but poor free throw shooting at the end of the game allowed Turkey Valley to extend a narrow lead and take the victory,” Coach Sullivan remarked.

The Waukon boys track team began its 2017 season at the Northeast Iowa Conference Indoor Meet hosted by Decorah High School at Luther College in Decorah Tuesday, March 21. The Indians rattled off 13 top-five event finishes at the meet, which did not keep track of an official team score.

The Indians were next scheduled to take their efforts outdoors for the first time this season, competing at Sumner-Fredericksburg’s Frostbite Invitational Tuesday, March 28 before hosting their own Early Bird Invitational at Waukon Thursday, March 30, details of which appear in a shaded box elsewhere on this same Sports page. The track Tribe is then scheduled to compete in a quadrangular meet at Decorah Monday, April 3 before traveling to Postville Thursday, April 6.

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The Kee boys track team got its 2017 season underway with the Upper Iowa Conference Indoor Meet Monday, March 20 hosted by South Winneshiek at Luther College in Decorah. The Hawks tallied eight top-10 event finishes at the meet to help score 18 team points and finish in a tie for 10th place with MFL/MarMac.

TEAM SCORES
South Winneshiek 105.5; Edgewood-Colesburg 105.5; North Fayette Valley 69; Clayton Ridge 63.5; Turkey Valley 60; Starmont 52; Central Elkader 31.5; Postville 27; West Central 25; MFL/MarMac 18; KEE 18

The Hawks are scheduled to take their efforts outdoors for the first time this season, being scheduled to compete at the Early Bird Invitational at Waukon Thursday, March 30. Kee will then compete at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, April 4 before traveling to Postville Thursday, April 6.

Registration for the Waukon Youth Sports Foundation (YSF) 5th and 6th grade tackle football program has been scheduled for Sunday, April 2 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Waukon Wellness Center. Registration is open to any boy or girl currently in fourth or fifth grade.

The Waukon Youth Football program, a division of the Youth Sports Foundation, is available to any Waukon area youth entering into fifth or sixth grade in the fall of 2017. The tackle football program begins in August and includes introduction to skills for tackle football, a Jamboree kick-off event, and a Sunday afternoon game schedule throughout the fall.

Both parent (guardian) and player must attend registration, as players will be fitted for equipment at this time. Total cost to participate in the program is $100, which includes all equipment necessary to play, except cleats.

Entry Name Score
Neal Corwin 88
Betty Estebo 87
Karen Mathis 86
Miles Hansmeier 84
Francis Ottaway 84
Brady Hogan 83
Val Reinke 82
Bob Stilwell 82
Annabelle Dibert 82
Samantha Herman 82
Kelly Bucher 82
Harvey Estebo 81
Rosanne Wicks 81
Molly Ottaway 81
Tami Stilwell 80
Jarod Dahlstrom 79
Marlene Houg 79
James Bucher 79
Jennifer Moose 78
Randy Hesse 78
Morgan Weymiller 77
Jim Winters 76
Jaxon Brinkman 76
Mary Engrav 76
Kristina Dibert 76
Brenda Houg 76
Randy Bloxham 76
Paul Norton 75
Bob Kubitz 75
Amy Opperman 75
Logan Houg 75
Kent Schultz 75
Ken Krambeer 75
Jack O'Neill 75
Cindy Barness 75
Chance Adam 74
*Trey Cota 74
Chad Wilson 74
Damon Micheal Weber 74
Bobbi Hansmeier 74
Mike Kramer 74
Crystal Corwin 74

The Waukon Park & Recreation Youth Soccer Program is for boys and girls in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Basic fundamentals of soccer will be taught along with team participation.

Teams will be grouped together as follows: Kindergarten participants will have their own league, first and second graders will be together, third and fourth graders will be together, and fifth and sixth graders will be together. Different size fields and balls will be used to accommodate the lower ages and skill levels. All players must wear shin guards and they must be covered by socks or pants; cleats are optional.

Games will be played Saturday mornings starting April 8 and will run for five weeks, all played at the soccer fields on the west edge of Waukon, across the street from the Waukon Wellness Center. There will not be games held April 15 due to Easter weekend.

The Waukon girls track team is fielding 41 team members for its 2017 campaign, with more than half of this season’s team members being listed as returning letterwinners from last season. A total of 22 varsity veterans return for this season, some of them not only returning with experience at the highest level of Iowa high school competition with State Meet qualification, but also winning medals at that season grand finale last spring.

The Kee girls track team will field 21 members for the 2017 season, with just over half of this year’s squad returning with letterwinning experience. Within that returning veteran experience lies an even greater benefit for the Lady Hawks with a pair of those veterans bringing back with them experience from every high school competitor’s ultimate destination, the State Meet.

A squad of 55 members holds a great deal of promise for the 2017 Waukon boys track team this spring, but that promise won’t have a great deal of experience to benefit from. Just 10 of this year’s Indian track and fieldsters return with varsity letterwinning experience, as the track Tribe graduated a large group of strong competitors last spring.

Those veteran 10 are led by six seniors in Austin Day, Adam Gruman, Hunter Jensen, Tyler O’Neill, Brandon Regan and Blain Swenson. Juniors Evan Armstead, Abe Schwartz, Mitchell Snitker and Isaiah Welch round out this season’s returning letterwinning experience.

The Kee boys track team is fielding one of its largest squads in recent seasons, as 23 young men have reported for early-season duty this spring. While the old saying goes “there is strength in numbers,” the numbers where the strength of varsity letterwinning experience comes from are not all that high, with just four varsity veterans returning this season.

“There are a lot more boys out this year than in the past,” Kee boys track coach Nick Mooney said. “However, very few of them have significant experience and I will be looking to those more experienced guys to help out at practice by setting a good tempo and sharing their knowledge of skills.”