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The Kee baseball team played to an 11-22 season record under first-year head coach Jim Mauss. Compounding the fact that the first-year head coach was facing back-to-back seasons where the Hawks had graduated two-thirds of their starting line-up was the unfortunate reality of injury that took two more of last season’s young starters out of the mix for this entire season.
Still, Coach Mauss is not one to look for excuses and expects better results from himself and his charges. “This season was very tough on me, but I understand what I need to improve on and what the guys need to improve on,” Coach Mauss said. “No one feels bad that Kee is finally down, so we need to put in lots of hours and improve before the beginning of May 2016.”

The Waukon baseball team played its way to the most wins in a single regular season since the summer of 2011, compiling an overall record of 12-17. But with a majority of this season’s losses coming during a 4-14 Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) campaign, the Indians still found themselves looking up at the remaining six teams in the final NEIC standings.
“Our challenge will always be the competitiveness of our schedule and league,” Waukon baseball coach Jerry Keenan said. “It is a solid league from top to bottom and we are facing a good opponent every time we take the field. But facing competition like that will make us better and we will continue to work hard and be a challenge for them as well.”

The Waukon softball team played to a season record of 7-19 during its 2015 campaign, coming within a handful of runs of playing to an overall even record for the season, as half a dozen of the Indians’ losses came by three runs or fewer. More than half of this season’s losses featured one decisive inning in which the softball Tribe allowed enough runs to turn an otherwise competitive contest into a loss or one by a more decisive margin, proving the Indians were competitive more often than not, no matter who the opponent.

The Waukon baseball team had its 2015 season brought to a close in a Class 3A first-round district tournament loss at the home of fourth-rated West Delaware Friday, July 17. The host Hawks proved their high regard in limiting the Indians to just a single hit while knocking around 13 of their own on the way to a 14-0 Indian loss in five innings. The loss brings the Tribe’s 2015 season to a close with a 12-17 overall record that includes a mark of 4-14 to place the Indians seventh in the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standings. West Delaware went on to defeat Independence - 14-11 first-round winners over Decorah - by a 2-1 final result in the Monday, July 20 district championship game to earn a Wednesday, July 22 Substate 3 championship game match-up with second-rated Waverly-Shell Rock, 4-2 winners over Charles City in Monday, July 20 district championship play. That substate winner will advance on to next week’s Class 3A State Tournament.

The Kee baseball team had its 2015 season brought to a close in the opening round of Class 1A district tournament play Tuesday, July 14, suffering a 10-2 loss to Wapsie Valley in the first half of a district tournament doubleheader played that evening in Jesup. The Hawks had just faced their Warrior opponents one week earlier, pulling out an 11-10 road victory, but could not come up with a similar offensive response and allowed a seven-run fifth inning to open up a 2-2 scoreboard knot enroute to the loss. The loss ended Kee’s season at an 11-22 overall record that includes a mark of 6-10 that placed the Hawks sixth in the final nine-team Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) standings. With the win, Wapsie Valley advanced on to face Jesup, 6-1 first-round winners over Central City.

The Kee baseball team wrapped up its 2015 regular season with a pair of wins in a busy week of six games this past week, finishing the season with an overall record of 11-21 that includes a mark of 6-10 that placed the Hawks sixth in the final nine-team Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) standings. The Kee baseballers opened their week by having a Monday, July 6 UIC doubleheader at Edgewood-Colesburg postponed by rain to create a very busy Tuesday, July 7, where the Hawks fell at Edgewood-Colesburg by narrow margins of 2-1 and 3-1 before traveling to Wapsie Valley later that same evening and pulling out an 11-10 victory. Kee then had a late rally fall short in a 10-8 loss at Nashua-Plainfield Wednesday, July 8 before wrapping up its regular season with a split at home against Riceville Friday, July 10 that included a 1-0 triumph and a 9-3 loss.

The Waukon baseball team brought its regular season to a close this past week, winning one of its final four games on the regular season schedule to finish that slate with a 12-16 overall record that included a mark of 4-14 to place the Indians seventh in the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standings. The Indians were first swept at Class 2A eighth-rated New Hampton, 11-2 and 10-0 in five innings, Tuesday, July 7 in the Chickasaws’ quest for their first NEIC season championship in 43 years. The baseball Tribe then played to a split at Crestwood Friday, July 10 in its regular season finale, pulling off a 9-8 victory but also falling by a 6-2 end result.
The Indians will now prepare for their first-round Class 3A District Tournament game at fourth-rated West Delaware to be played in Manchester this Friday, July 17, beginning at 7 p.m.

The Kee softball team had its 2015 season brought to a close just short of its quest for a return trip to the Class 1A State Tournament, venturing down that postseason trail to win two of three games to come up only a single run short of another shot at a State Championship berth. The Lady Hawks first made their way through some familiar territory with back-to-back regional tournament wins at home over fellow Upper Iowa Conference teams Central Elkader, 10-1 Wednesday, July 8 in quarterfinal action, and 7-6 over Turkey Valley in the regional semifinals Friday, July 10.

The 2015 season came to a close for the Waukon softball team in the opening round of its Class 3A District Tournament at North Fayette Valley in West Union Wednesday, July 8. The Indians were out-hit by a 10-2 count and committed five defensive errors in falling by a 10-0 final result in six innings.
The softball Indians wrapped up their 2015 season with a 7-19 overall record that included a mark of 2-13 that placed them sixth in the final Northeast Iowa Conference standings. North Fayette Valley went on to fall to Class 3A sixth-rated Waterloo Columbus by a score of 9-0 in their Friday, July 10 regional semifinals match-up.

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The Waukon softball team finished up its regular season this past week, starting off on a high note before surrendering its final four games of the regular season to end up with a 7-18 regular season record that included a 2-13 mark that places the Indians sixth in the final Northeast Iowa Conference standings. That positive start to this past week saw the softball Tribe pull out a 7-6 home win over New Hampton Monday, June 29 in a game rescheduled from June 11 before the Chickasaws returned that favor twice as hard the following night by scores of 15-7 and 7-5. The Indians then closed out their regular season with a home doubleheader loss to Class 3A 14th-rated Crestwood by scores of 9-3 and 12-2 in six innings Thursday, July 2.
A Wednesday, July 1 home game with Kee was canceled due to Kee having to make up its June 29 Upper Iowa Conference game with MFL/MarMac.