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The Kee softball team had a busy week of playing games on five of six nights this past week get a little less busy when the Hawks’ Wednesday, June 12 home doubleheader with Clayton Ridge was postponed by stormy weather to June 21. On each side of that postponement, the Kee girls played to five wins in the seven games they did play, currently holding a 9-10 season record that keeps them undefeated in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play at 4-0. Their two UIC wins this past week came by mercy-rule finals, 12-2 in five innings and 22-1 in three innings, at Postville Monday, June 10 before they claimed a 9-5 road win over Marquette Catholic Tuesday, June 11.

The Kee baseball team played to three wins in its five games this past week to currently hold a 17-5 season record that includes a 9-1 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play. The Hawks opened the week with a home doubleheader sweep of Turkey Valley Monday, June 10 by scores of 6-0 and 5-0 before posting a 13-1 mercy-rule win at Postville Thursday, June 13 and then falling in two games against Moravia in a varsity matinee doubleheader Saturday, June 15 at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, 4-1 and 15-5 in six innings. Details of those two Saturday games will be printed in the June 26 edition of The Standard due to an early print deadline for this June 19 edition because of the Juneteenth postal holiday.

The Waukon softball team played a total of six games this past week, putting one of those in the win column to currently hold a 6-9 season record that includes a mark of 1-5 in Northeast Iowa Conference play. The Lady Indians fell in a home doubleheader with Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, June 11 by scores of 14-1 in five innings and 8-2 before winning one of four games played  at the two-day West Delaware Tournament to end up in 12th place in the 16-team tournament, including a 13-0 loss in four innings to Class 3A third-rated Dubuque Wahlert and a 13-1 win in four innings over Class 5A Cedar Rapids Washington Friday, June 14 before playing to an 11-1 defeat in five innings against Independence and a 6-2 loss to Monticello Saturday, June 15. Details of those two Saturday tournament contests will be printed in the June 26 edition of The Standard due to an early print deadline for this June 19 edition of The Standard due to the Juneteenth postal holiday.

The Waukon baseball team played just three games this past week, putting one of those three in the win column to currently hold a 3-9 season record that includes a mark of 2-6 in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. Hosting Class 2A seventh-rated New Hampton Wednesday, June 5, the Indians surrendered a 12-2 loss before allowing an 8-4 loss to get away in the final inning. The diamond Tribe then posted a 14-4 win at Edgewood-Colesburg Thursday, June 6.

The Indians were next scheduled to host Crestwood for two varsity games in NEIC play Monday, June 10 before playing two NEIC games at Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, June 14 and then one game at Riceville Saturday, June 15. They will then host Turkey Valley Monday, June 17 and Decorah Wednesday, June 19.

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A strong early start to this past week of five games saw the Waukon softball team put three of those contests in the win column as the Tribe now holds a 5-4 season record that includes a mark of 2-2 in Northeast Iowa Conference play. The Lady Indians opened the week with a 13-2 home win over Central Elkader in just five innings Monday, June 3 before recording a 6-3 win at home over South Winneshiek Wednesday, June 5. They then played to a split at New Hampton Thursday, June 6 with an 18-12 win followed by a 14-2 loss in three innings before wrapping up the week with an 8-0 loss at NEIC-leading Charles City Friday, June 7.

The softball Indians were next slated to host Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, June 11 before playing in the large West Delaware Tournament Friday and Saturday, June 14-15. They will then play at Crestwood Tuesday, June 18 and at North Fayette Valley Thursday, June 20 before hosting New Hampton Friday, June 21.

The Kee baseball team had a busy week stopped short of being even busier when the two-game Cedar River Classic the Hawks were scheduled to play in at St. Ansgar Saturday, June 8 was canceled due to wet conditions. The five games the Kee boys did play over the course of the first four days of the week all ended up in the win column, improving their season record to 14-3, including a 6-1 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play.

The Hawks swept a doubleheader at Clayton Ridge with wins of 7-0 and 12-6 Monday, June 3 before recording an 11-0 win in six innings at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, June 4. They then shut out Nashua-Plainfield by a 7-0 count at home Wednesday, June 5 before battling MFL/MarMac to a 1-0 triumph at home Thursday, June 6 to wrap up their undefeated but abbreviated week.

One late inning in its first game of the Riceville Tournament over the weekend kept the Kee softball team from putting all four of its games this past week into the win column, as the Lady Hawks won three of those contests to currently hold a 4-8 season record that has them off to a 2-0 start in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play. Those two UIC wins came at home Wednesday, June 5 when Kee’s diamond dwellers swept Central Elkader by mercy-rule scores of 12-0 in three innings and 10-0 in six innings. The Lady Hawks wrapped up their week splitting two games at the Riceville Tournament Saturday, June 8, first falling to St. Ansgar by a 5-1 result after a sixth-inning Saint outburst but then regrouping for a 6-3 win over the tournament host.

Playing another busy week of six games over a span of five days, the Kee baseball team put all but one of those half dozen contests in the win column this week to improve to a 9-3 season record that includes a 2-1 start to the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) season. The Hawks opened this past week with a home doubleheader sweep of Postville Tuesday, May 28, 15-0 in three innings and 15-5 in five innings, before also defeating Waukon at home, 2-0, Wednesday, May 29. Kee suffered its only loss of the week, 7-2, in a UIC matchup with South Winneshiek played at the home of the Minnesota Twins, Target Field in Minneapolis, MN, Thursday, May 30, and then swept two games played in the Coon Rapids-Bayard Tournament Saturday, June 1, defeating Pleasantville by a 6-2 result in game one before clinching the tournament title with a 12-6 win over the host school, Coon Rapids-Bayard.

The Waukon baseball team played through another fairly busy short stretch of five games in four nights this past week, once again putting just one of those games in the win column to currently hold a 2-7 season record that includes a mark of 2-4 in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. The Indians opened this past week with a doubleheader loss at Decorah Tuesday, May 28 by scores of 8-2 and 7-3 before also falling at Kee, 2-0, Wednesday, May 29. The diamond Tribe wrapped up the week splitting its second NEIC road doubleheader of the week, opening with a 9-0 win at Charles City before falling by a 7-5 count in the nightcap Friday, May 31.

The Indians were next scheduled to host New Hampton Wednesday, June 5 before playing at Edgewood-Colesburg Thursday, June 6. They will then host a NEIC double-dip with Crestwood Monday, June 10 and Osage Thursday, June 13 before playing two games at Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, June 14 and then one game at Riceville Saturday, June 15

The Kee softball team played five games this past week, beginning with a slower, single-game start to the week before finishing with four games in just over 24 hours at the two-day North Fayette Valley Tournament to end the week. The Lady Hawks began that stretch battling Class 3A Crestwood to just an 8-7 loss at home Tuesday, May 28 before falling in two games Friday, May 31 at that weekend tournament, 4-0 to Edgewood-Colesburg and 6-0 to Don Bosco, and then splitting two Saturday, June 1 games, including a 6-4 win over Oelwein for their first victory of this young season and a 14-0 loss to previously-ranked Class 2A Osage in three innings of play.