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The Kee girls basketball team extended its current winning streak to five games with a pair of victories late in this past week, exacting a bit of revenge in the process. After having a Tuesday, January 24 home game with Starmont postponed to Monday, January 30 due to winter weather, the Lady Hawks paid back an Upper Iowa Conference loss to Clayton Ridge from earlier in the season with a 40-34 triumph at Guttenberg Thursday, January 26 before defeating Spring Grove, MN Friday, January 27 at home by a final count of 62-41.

The Waukon bowling team competed in a busy final two days of this past week, competing in a home dual meet and a first-ever team tournament. The Indian bowlers split that home dual with Sumner-Fredericksburg Friday, January 27, the Waukon girls falling to the visiting Cougars by a score of 1883-2103 and the Indian boys securing a home victory by a 2247-2049 final result. The bowling Tribe then competed in a first-ever team tournament, taking on nine to 10 other teams in the North Iowa Conference Tournament hosted by Waterloo Columbus High School Saturday, January 28. Both the girls and boys teams were eliminated from the tournament in the second round of head-to-head competition.

The Waukon girls basketball team had a busy week shift from early in the week to later, having the game’s final results also shift within that timeframe. The Lady Indians opened the week with a 44-33 home triumph over Prairie du Chien, WI Monday, January 30 before falling on back-to-back nights to a pair of Northeast Iowa Conference teams ranked within the top 10 of their respective classes, including a 68-28 home loss to Class 3A third-rated Crestwood Thursday, January 26 in a game rescheduled from January 24, with that being followed by a 53-33 loss at Class 4A 10th-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 27.

A busy end to this past week for the Waukon girls basketball team ended up on each side of the win-loss column, as the Lady Indians split a pair of games on consecutive nights. The Indians were also supposed to make up a January 3 home game with Decorah Monday, January 16 but had that game postponed once again, now to February 4. The busy end to the week saw the Indians come away with a 40-29 home win over South Winneshiek Thursday, January 19 before falling at Oelwein Friday, January 20 by a 43-38 final result.

In what turned out to be its only competition of the week due to icy conditions that postponed a Tuesday, January 17 game at North Fayette Valley, the Kee girls basketball team coupled a double-digit scoring effort in each of its four quarters at Central Elkader Friday, January 20 with a single-digit defensive effort in three of those four quarters to come away with a 55-31 Upper Iowa Conference victory. The Lady Hawks nearly doubled-up the host Warriors in each of the game’s three first quarters to build as much as a nearly 30-point lead before having the fourth quarter play out nearly even.

Having played the Oelwein Huskies to just an eight-point road victory in early December during a back-and-forth battle through alternating quarters, the Waukon boys basketball team, instead, used a dominating third quarter to pull away from an otherwise much tighter contest when they hosted the Huskies in their second match-up of the season Friday, January 20. In a swing of momentum that actually began with a 5-0 run to end the second frame, the Indians furthered that momentum with a 24-8 outscoring of the visiting Huskies in that third period to distance themselves on the way to their highest point total of the season and an 81-57 victory.

The Waukon wrestling team prepared for its final tournament run of the season by wrapping up its dual meet season and then bringing its regular season tournament schedule to a season-best finish this past week. The Indians matched up in their final dual meets of the season in a double-dual at Charles City Thursday, January 19, falling to both the host Comets, 46-34, and then Class 3A fifth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock, 78-5. The mat Tribe bounced back from that double-dual sweep with its first tournament championship of the season, winning the six-team Cat Invitational hosted by Riceville High School Saturday, January 21.

The Indians wrapped up their dual meet season with a 9-16 overall record, including a 1-5 mark in the Northeast Iowa Conference that placed them in a tie for sixth place with Charles City. The wrestling Tribe will now prepare to host the Northeast Iowa Conference Wrestling Tournament Saturday, January 28, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Waukon High School gym.

The Waukon girls basketball team looked to be riding a post-holiday wave of momentum, adding a third consecutive win early in this past week before building a double-digit second half lead in its fourth game since the new year began. That early win was a 46-43 comeback triumph over North Fayette Valley Monday, January 9 before the Tribe had that comeback table turned in suffering a 62-55 loss at home to New Hampton Friday, January 13.

The Waukon boys basketball team started out its busy three-game slate pretty well this past week, but couldn’t maintain that success rate as the week came to a close. The basketball Tribe opened the week with a 76-45 manhandling of North Fayette Valley at home Monday, January 9 before falling in back-to-back contests that included an 81-46 Northeast Iowa Conference loss at New Hampton Friday, January 13 followed by a 63-58 loss at home to Waterloo East Saturday, January 14.

Now holding a 3-6 season record, 1-4 in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the basketball Tribe was scheduled to make up its postponed January 3 game at Decorah Monday, January 16 before hosting Oelwein Friday, January 20. The Indians will then play at Spring Grove, MN Monday, January 23 before traveling to Crestwood Tuesday, January 24 and then playing at Class 3A top-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 27.

After ending the previous week with rare back-to-back losses, the Kee girls basketball team remedied that ailment quickly with an undefeated effort this past week. The Lady Hawks swept two Upper Iowa Conference opponents on consecutive nights, downing Edgewood-Colesburg, 47-25, in a Thursday, January 12 road contest that had been postponed from Tuesday, January 10 before posting a 53-41 victory at home over MFL/MarMac Friday, January 13.

Now holding an 8-3 overall season record, including a 6-2 effort in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play, the Class 1A sixth-rated Kee basketballers were scheduled to play at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, January 17 and then at Central Elkader Friday, January 20. The Lady Hawks will then host Starmont Tuesday, January 24 before playing at Clayton Ridge Thursday, January 26 and then hosting Postville Friday, January 27.