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Knowing full well what needed to be done on its own behalf to secure the best possible State Play-Off seeding it could, the Waukon football team more than took care of its own business in ending the 2015 regular season with a 46-12 romp at single-win Oelwein Friday, October 23. With their own part of securing the greatest margin of victory allowed (13 points) for any play-off seeding tie-breaker well in hand, the Indians needed further help with a loss by North Fayette Valley and only a single-digit win by Dyersville Beckman to ascend the play-off seeding ladder as best it could.

If ever a three-set loss could provide a sense of pride, the Waukon volleyball team may very well have experienced just that in its first-round regional tournament loss at New Hampton Monday, October 26. The volleyball Indians were swept in three straight sets by the host Chickasaws, 21-25, 18-25 and 11-25, but gave New Hampton a much better fight than in any of the previous matches the two teams squared off in this season.
The Indians wrapped up their 2015 season with a 6-28 overall record, including a 1-5 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play that placed them sixth in the final seven-team standings. With the win, New Hampton advanced on to play Osage this Thursday, October 29 after the Green Devils also swept Crestwood by scores of 25-14, 25-19 and 25-12 in first-round action.

The Waukon football team did its part in clinching its best possible seeding for the Class 2A State Play-Offs by wrapping up the 2015 regular season with a 46-12 rout at Oelwein Friday, October 23 for an 8-1 overall record and 5-1 mark in Class 2A District 3. Unfortunately, North Fayette Valley, the only team to defeat the Indians this season, also did its part on its own behalf, defeating New Hampton, 19-0, to wrap up the top play-off seed in Class 2A District 3. But the Indians did get some help from Dyersville Beckman in clinching the number-two play-off seed and a first-round home play-off game. The Indians needed Beckman to either lose, or only win by nine or fewer points while the Indians needed to win by at least four points more than any single-digit Beckman winning margin.

Heading to the home of the top-rated team in Class 2A, the Waukon cross country boys knew they would have their work cut out for them if they wanted to advance out of their Class 2A State Qualifying Meet at Monticello Thursday, October 22. Even though they couldn’t quite keep pace with the meet’s championship total of just 32 points scored by the highest-regarded host Panthers, the Indians did improve on their State qualifying third-place finish from last season by placing second at Thursday’s meet with a team total of 106 points.
The top-rated Panthers of Monticello claimed three of the top four individual finishes at the meet and placed all five of their team-scored runners within the meet’s top 16 individuals on their way to those 32 championship points. A top-15 individual finish is required for advancement on to the State Meet, as well as a top-three finish for an entire team to advance.

The Waukon volleyball team wrapped up its regular season this past week, recording its first Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) match victory of the season, but failing to repeat that accomplishment in the NEIC season-ending tournament. The Indian netters pulled off their lone NEIC triumph at Decorah in their final regular season dual match of the season, winning in four sets by scores of 25-20, 27-25, 18-25 and 25-22, but were then defeated by all six other conference teams at the NEIC Tournament Saturday, October 17 at Waverly-Shell Rock to finish seventh at that tournament.
The Indians wrapped up their regular season with a 6-27 overall record, including a 1-5 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play that placed them sixth in the final seven-team standings. The Indians are scheduled to begin postseason tournament play Monday, October 26 at and against New Hampton.

After being denied a third consecutive State Play-Off qualification last season, the Waukon football team has played its way back to the postseason, clinching that reservation with a 44-17 triumph over Center Point-Urbana (CPU) to wrap up the Tribe’s home regular season schedule Friday, October 16. In a bit of gridiron justice, the play-off securing win over the Stormin’ Pointers comes after CPU had denied that Indian quest of continuing its play-off qualification streak last season with a 27-20 loss that went down to the final moments of play.

The Kee cross country team competed among all other Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) teams in the UIC Meet hosted by Central Elkader Thursday, October 15. The Hawk boys ran just enough runners, five, to formulate a team score, tallying 249 team points, while Kee’s lone high school girl, sophomore Nicki Wood, ended up competing in the junior varsity race, placing third in that field with a time of 22:50. The Hawks will next compete in their Class 1A State Qualifying Meet scheduled for this Thursday, October 22 at Birdsall Park in Cedar Falls.

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The Waukon boys cross team claimed a pair of individual All-Conference finishes on the way to a third-place team finish at the Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Meet at New Hampton Tuesday, October 13. In a very tight battle behind the dominant championship effort of Decorah placing all seven of its varsity runners within the All-Conference top 15, the Indians scored 87 team points to finish just two points behind runner-up Charles City and a mere single point ahead of fourth-place Waverly-Shell Rock, with all seven teams NEIC teams being able to field full teams and team scores.
The Indians will next compete in their Class 2A State Qualifying Meet Thursday, October 22 at Monticello, with further details of that postseason venture printed elsewhere on these Sports pages in a shaded box.

The Kee volleyball team wrapped up its regular season with a couple opportunities to reign supreme over the Upper Iowa Conference  (UIC) this past week, both in dual match and tournament play. Unfortunately for the Hawks, standing in the way of that feat was defending UIC champion Starmont, who denied the Hawk netters both chances by handing Kee two of its four match losses from this past week.

The Waukon girls cross country team ran to a sixth-place team finish out of six teams being able to field team scores at the Northeast Iowa Conference Meet hosted by New Hampton Tuesday, October 13. With all seven Indian varsity runners finishing within the latter half of the meet’s overall field of 44 runners, the Tribe scored 158 team points. The Indians will next compete in their Class 2A State Qualifying Meet this Thursday, October 22 at Monticello High School.