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The Kee cross country team competed in a single meet this past week, taking part in the Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22. The Hawk boys finished 12 out of a dozen teams in the varsity boys race, with sophomore Nicki Wood being the lone high school girl to compete for Kee at the meet, placing 33rd out of 64 runners in a time of 23:15.

The Hawks were scheduled to compete Tuesday, September 29 at the Jesup Invitational. Kee will then have just over a week until its next competition scheduled for Thursday, October 8 at New Hampton.

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One of the most anticipated match-ups on the Iowa high school football schedule from this past Friday, September 25 turned out one of the least anticipated results, as the top-five rated Waukon football team suffered a 48-8 loss at top-10 rated North Fayette Valley in Class 2A District 3 play. In a match-up touted as the Indian air game vs. the TigerHawk ground game, host North Fayette Valley racked up 430 yards on the ground while the Indian passing attack still managed 171 yards, but accounted for just one touchdown of just one yard and also gave up four interceptions in a 14-for-40 passing effort on a night when the Indian ground game managed just 86 yards.

The new press box at the Waukon High School football/track and field stadium was dedicated in honor of 2004 Waukon High School graduate and student-athlete Mitch Einck at halftime of the Friday, September 18 Waukon football home game, a 14-3 victory over Dyersville Beckman. Bryan Einck, older brother of Mitch and a 2001 Waukon High School graduate, spoke on behalf of the family as friends and former teammates of Mitch also joined members of the Einck family and Allamakee Community School District administrators during the dedication presentation. Allamakee Community School District Superintendent Dave Herold accepted a donation check in the amount of $26,500 from Dave and Nancy Einck, parents of Mitch Einck, to help fund the new press box. Those donated funds were the product of the generosity of family members and friends of the Einck family at the second annual Mitch Einck Memorial Golf Outing held in June of 2014.

The Waukon girls cross country team competed in its only meet of the week Tuesday, September 15 at the Starmont Invitational. In another unique scoring system, the meet features an overall team score for all teams but also compiles team scores for Class 1A teams only, as well as for Class 2A and Class 3A teams combined. The Lady Indians ran to a 13th-place overall finish out of 20 teams in all classes at the meet, as well as an eighth-place finish out of 11 teams in the Class 2A/Class 3A team scoring.
The Indians were scheduled to host their own Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22 and will next compete Saturday, October 3 at the Crestwood Invitational.

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Off to a 0-3 start to the season and making a long bus trip to Central City to play football in the pouring rain would likely not forecast a very favorable outcome for most teams. But, for Coach Chad Winters and his Kee football team, it was quite the contrary as the Hawks brushed off all of those obstacles, along with a constant challenge from the host Wildcats, to record their first win of the 2015 season, a 28-26 triumph that went right down to the final minutes of play.
Now sporting a 1-3 overall record, 1-1 in Eight-Player District 4, the Hawks remain on the road this week to continue Eight-Player District 4 play, traveling to Cedar Valley Christian in Cedar Rapids this Friday, September 25. The Huskies have just a single win on the year and come off a 76-6 road loss at Central Elkader this past Friday.

The Kee volleyball team had a busy latter portion of the week that proved fairly successful overall, as the Hawks won four of six matches this past week. The Kee netters posted their first Upper Iowa Conference road victory of the season in four sets at Central Elkader Thursday, September 17 by scores of 25-27, 25-19, 25-21 and 25-22 before playing to the championship semifinals at the Waukon Tournament Saturday, September 19. The Hawks won two of three pool play matches at the tournament before splitting two championship bracket matches, both of Kee’s match losses at the tournament coming to the eventual tournament champion, Class 3A New Hampton.

The Kee cross country team battled through a second consecutive week of two meets, continuing a stretch of what will amount to five meets in two weeks’ time. The Hawks took part in the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15, where the boys placed 26th overall and 13th among Class 1A teams, and then placed sixth in the Central Elkader Invitational Thursday, September 17. Sophomore Nicki Wood is still the lone high school girl competing for Kee, placing in nearly the top one-third of all competitors at both meets.
The Hawks were scheduled to compete at the Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22 and will then have a week to prepare for the Tuesday, September 29 Jesup Invitational. Kee will then have just over a week until its next competition scheduled for Thursday, October 8 at New Hampton.
 

The Waukon boys cross country team took part in just a single meet this past week, competing at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 15 in a meet that features both overall team scoring, as well as separate scoring for just Class 1A teams and Class 2A and Class 3A teams combined. With that double-scoring in place, the Indians ran to a fourth-place overall team finish, as well as a third-place team finish among the Class 2A and 3A teams competing at the meet.
The Indians were scheduled to host their own Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22 and then won’t compete again until Saturday, October 3 at the Crestwood Invitational being held in Cresco.

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The Waukon volleyball team experienced both ends of the broom this past week, suffering the down side of sweeping action to begin and end the week but doing their own bit of that for three match wins between those two match losses. The Indians opened the week by falling at Oelwein in three straight sets, 17-25, 11-25 and 16-25, Tuesday, September 15 before winning all three of its pool play matches but falling in the opening round of championship bracket play at the Tribe’s own Waukon Invitational Tournament Saturday, September 19.
Holding a 5-10 season record, 0-2 in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians were next scheduled to host Class 4A 11th-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 22 before hosting MFL/MarMac Monday, September 28 in a match rescheduled from September 8 and then traveling to New Hampton Tuesday, September 29.

It took the most balanced overall effort of the season for the Waukon football team to remain undefeated Friday, September 18 when the Indians faced cool, rainy weather and Dyersville Beckman, the first of back-to-back opponents from their own district who played all the way to the Class 2A State Play-Off Semifinals last season. A season-low 142 yards through the air were complemented nicely by a season-high 162 yards on the ground for the Indians, but a staunch defensive effort that limited the visiting Trailblazers to just 149 yards of total offense furthered that complete balance to result in a 14-3 victory for the Indians.