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The Decorah High School swim team hosted its only home swim meet of the season, competing against Waterloo Thursday, September 1 at Luther College in Decorah. The host Vikings dominated the meet, defeating Waterloo by a 143-43 final scoreboard result.

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The Waukon boys cross country team competed in the uniquely-scored Dick Pollitt Go-Hawk Classic hosted by Waverly-Shell Rock Thursday, September 8 after the meet was postponed from Tuesday, September 6 due to weather. The Indians ended up in 11th place in the final overall 12 scoring team standings based on the meet’s grade competition format and unique scoring system.

With the meet matching each grade level in a race - seniors running only against seniors, etc., and the finishes of only two runners from each grade race being allowed to count in the overall team score, the Indians finished with 107 team points.

The Indians were scheduled to compete at the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 13 and will then prepare to host their own Waukon Invitational the following Tuesday, September 20. Further details of the Indians’ only home meet of the season can be found in the shaded box printed elsewhere on these same Sports pages.

The Waukon football team wrapped up its non-district schedule locked in a defensive battle that featured a total of nine turnovers between the Indians and the visiting New Hampton Chickasaws Friday, September 2. The football Tribe fell victim to five of those miscues, including four in a scoreless second half and three fourth quarter interceptions that helped a 20-14 Indian halftime advantage wilt away to a 21-20 defeat.

Having their season record even out at 1-1 so far this fall, the Indians will begin Class 2A District 4 play this Friday, September 9 at Dyersville Beckman. The Blazers are also 1-1 on the season, opening the season with a 28-14 victory at Clayton Ridge and suffering a 28-17 loss at Western Dubuque this past Friday, September 2.

The Kee volleyball team finally got to open its 2016 season, hosting Edgewood-Colesburg (Ed-Co) Thursday, September 1 after having had its first match of the season postponed due to the flooding that gripped northeast Iowa a week earlier. Whether it was a case of first-match jitters or the difference between the Hawks playing their first match and the visiting Vikings already having six matches under their belt this season, the Kee netters had difficulty maintaining any momentum in being swept by Ed-Co by scores of 11-25, 21-25 and 6-25.

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The Kee cross country team took part in its second meet of the season, competing in a seven-team scoring field at the MFL/MarMac Invitational held at Luana’s Tri-City Golf Course Thursday, September 1. Both the girls and boys varsity teams were able to compile team scores, the Lady Hawks finishing in second place behind top-rated Central Elkader and the boys placing fifth.

The Hawks were next scheduled to compete in the Clayton Ridge Invitational at Guttenberg Tuesday, September 6. Kee will pull double duty next week, competing Tuesday, September 13 at Starmont and Thursday, September 15 date at Elkader.

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The Kee football team opened its home schedule with a slug fest Friday, September 2 against Riceville in the Hawks’ final of two season-opening non-district battles. The Kee gridiron gang took an 8-0 lead early in the battle but allowed the visiting Wildcats to control the middle two frames before coming up just short in a fourth quarter comeback effort that was left unrealized at a 22-14 Kee defeat.

The Hawks are scheduled to travel to Central City this Friday, September 9 to open their District 3 schedule. The Wildcats are also winless yet on this young season, suffering a trio of lopsided losses so far, 63-22 at Lone Tree in Week 0, 55-13 at Springville in Week 1, and 55-12 to Easton Valley this past Friday. Kee will then prepare for its Homecoming game against Tripoli Friday, September 16.

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The Kee cross country team got its 2016 season underway in a somewhat reversal of fortune from previous seasons at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational held Tuesday, August 23 at Edgewood. The cross country Lady Hawks were able to put together their first team score in recent history, doing so in successful fashion with a third-place finish in the 10-team scoring field. Meanwhile, the Kee cross country boys were one varsity runner shy of being able to compile a team score in their 2016 season debut at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational.

With six returning letterwinners and a total of nine seniors on this year’s squad of 45 high school girls, the 2016 Waukon volleyball team enters the season with an abundance of familiarity. However, a new face will emerge at the top of that Indian volleyball totem pole, as first-year head coach Madison Wagner has taken the reins of the varsity volleyball head coaching position.

Wagner is in her first year of teaching at Waukon Middle School and is a native of Lancaster, WI. She earned her teaching degree from Ashford University in Clinton, where she played college basketball after a multi-sport high school athletic career.

The Waukon football team got its 2016 season underway in strong fashion, rolling over Class 1A MFL/MarMac by a 54-8 final result Friday, August 26 in Monona. The Indians amassed nearly 200 yards each on the ground and through the air, while also benefiting from seven turnovers by the host Bulldogs, five of which the football Tribe pushed to the scoreboard to help build a 48-0 lead by the halftime break.

“I did not expect the score to be quite so lopsided,” Waukon football coach Chad Beermann said. “MFL/MarMac has improved up front, and they did give us some problems there. The big difference seemed to be the skill players in space, on both offense and defense. And, they did give us plenty of turnovers.”