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The Waukon wrestling team wrestled another full late-week slate of six dual matches, winning half of those bouts to come away with a consolation championship at the Decorah Duals Tournament over the weekend. Prior to their consolation title, the Indians were once again victimized by the three forfeits they have to give up, falling to Decorah at home by a 51-24 final result after battling the Vikings to a 21-21 tie early on. The Tribe’s Decorah Duals competition saw them wrestle to a third-place finish in a four-team pool with losses of 46-30 to South Winneshiek and 54-21 to Western Dubuque and a 55-15 win over Decorah’s junior varsity squad before winning its four-team consolation bracket with dual wins of 48-20 over Turkey Valley and 66-6 over Postville and not having to wrestle Decorah’s JV again due to their previous pool round win over the younger Vikings.

The Waukon boys basketball team sandwiched a big win between its two biggest losses of the season in a second consecutive three-game week of competition. The Indians opened the week with a 91-63 loss at Spring Grove, MN Monday, January 12 and ended it with a 76-48 home loss to Class 3A top-five rated Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 16. In between those two setbacks, the Indians dealt out a convincing defeat of their own, 74-51, at Oelwein Tuesday, January 13.
Currently holding an 8-5 overall record, 2-4 in the Northeast Iowa Conference, the Indians were slated to play at Charles City Tuesday, January 20 before hosting Decorah Friday, January 23. The Tribe will continue its Northeast Iowa Conference slate with a Tuesday, January 27 home game against New Hampton before traveling to Crestwood Friday, January 30.

The Waukon girls basketball team came within one half (two quarters) of an undefeated week, winning two-and-a-half of its three games this past week to double its win total for the season. The Indians opened the week with back-to-back victories, posting a 54-40 non-conference road victory at North Fayette Valley Monday, January 12 before defeating Oelwein at home, 63-53, Tuesday, January 13. The basketball ladies then fell at Class 4A sixth-rated and undefeated Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 16 by a 46-30 final result, but not before serving notice to the high-powered Go-Hawks by playing to a 22-21 halftime lead.

The Kee boys basketball team remained in search of an end to what has become a double-digit non-winning streak, coming as close as the Hawks have been able to during that stretch. The Hawk hoopsters came up just short by their narrowest of margins so far, 63-61, at Edgewood-Colesburg Tuesday, January 13 before falling just five points shy in suffering a 50-45 loss at Postville Friday, January 16.
Holding a 1-12 overall season record, 1-9 in the Upper Iowa Conference, the Hawks were scheduled to return home for two consecutive home games, against Turkey Valley Tuesday, January 20 and De Soto, WI Thursday, January 22, before traveling to West Salem, WI to play Coulee Christian Friday, January 23. Kee will then finish out its regular season at home, starting that final three-week stretch Tuesday, January 27 against Starmont and Friday, January 30 at West Central.

The Kee girls basketball team chalked up another three victories to push its current win streak to the brink of double digits with nine victories in a row, doing so with results on each end of the success spectrum from very narrow to very wide margins, and even one in between. The Lady Hawks pulled out a strong threat to that streak with a 56-54 win in overtime at Edgewood-Colesburg Tuesday, January 13 before winning back-to-back games to end the week, including a 54-43 home win over MFL/MarMac Thursday, January 15 and a 62-24 rout at Postville Friday, January 16.
The Hawks were scheduled to host Turkey Valley Tuesday, January 20 in an effort to avenge their only loss on the season so far. Kee will then have a week off from competition to prepare for its final stretch of the regular season, which begins with a Tuesday, January 27 home game with Starmont and a Friday, January 30 home contest with West Central.

The Waukon girls basketball team ended up playing just one game this past week, as Mother Nature claimed the Indians’ second contest of the week, a Thursday, January 8 home game with MFL/MarMac now postponed until January 29 due to winter weather. In its single game this past week the Tribe suffered a 74-44 loss at Class 3A eighth-rated Crestwood. Falling to a 2-7 overall record, 1-4 in the Northeast Iowa Conference, the Indians were next scheduled to play back-to-back nights, at North Fayette Valley Monday, January 12 and at home against Oelwein Tuesday, January 13, before traveling to Class 4A sixth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 16. The Indians will then host Charles City Tuesday, January 20 before playing at Decorah Friday, January 23.

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The Waukon boys basketball team played to an undefeated week in a busy schedule of three games to extend its current winning streak to four games since the holiday break. The Tribe opened the week with back-to-back home triumphs, 70-39 over Kee Monday, January 5 and 67-49 over Crestwood Tuesday, January 6, before pulling out a 59-58 home thriller over Prairie du Chien, WI Saturday, January 10.
“We’ve talked to the guys about not being satisfied,” Waukon boys basketball coach Jed Hemann said. “We expected to play better after the holiday break. We have been playing better, but these are not the best games we will have all season.”

The Kee girls basketball team posted a pair of victories in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play this past week to improve its season record to 11-1, 7-1 in the UIC, and extend its current winning streak to six games. The Lady Hawks had little trouble at single-win West Central with a 57-32 win Tuesday, January 6 before pulling off a 43-42 thriller at home against Central Elkader Friday, January 9 in a game rescheduled from the night before.
The Hawks were scheduled to play at Edgewood-Colesburg Tuesday, January 13 before hosting MFL/MarMac Thursday, January 15 and then traveling to Postville Friday, January 16. Kee will then host Turkey Valley Tuesday, January 20 in an effort to avenge its only loss on the season so far.

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The Waukon wrestling team ended up having a very busy 24 hours to end this past week without a team score victory in six contested duals, facing some schools they rarely, if ever, get to see on the wrestling mat. The Indians fell to Charles City, 53-12, in a Friday, January 9 Northeast Iowa Conference dual at Decorah rescheduled from the previous evening due to winter weather. They were also originally scheduled to wrestle the host school at that same event, but both teams opted out of that match-up since they will be facing off later this week in another Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet in Waukon and each also had a full tournament slate the next day. The mat Tribe then came up shy in five dual meets wrestled at the New Hampton Duals the next day, Saturday, January 10, falling to the host school, 57-16; to Southeast Polk, 41-22; to South Tama, 57-19; to Waterloo East, 40-26; and to Austin, MN, 42-33.

The Kee boys basketball team suffered from some slow starts it could never quite recover from in falling in all three of its contests this past week. The Hawks fell in back-to-back nights of road games, 70-39 at Waukon Monday, January 5 and 76-42 at West Central Tuesday, January 6, before suffering a similar fate at Central Elkader, 64-52, Friday, January 9.
“It was a tough week in a variety of ways,” Kee boys basketball coach Pat Wagner said. “Our schedule was strong. We played arguably the two best teams on our schedule on back-to-back nights and then traveled to Elkader Friday after weather problems kept us out of the gym on Wednesday and Thursday. And we cannot afford to not be in a gym.  However, we can’t and won’t make any excuses; we simply  have to get better.”