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The Waukon boys basketball team continued its winning ways to start the season, as the Indians added another win to its early-season undefeated stroke when they hosted Clayton Ridge in Upper Iowa Conference play Tuesday, December 16. Suffering its only deficit very early in the first half, and holding off an Eagle charge early in the second half, the bucket Tribe survived both of those three-point-aided efforts to remain undefeated on the season with a 56-41 victory.

The Indians had a Thursday, December 18 home game with Decorah postponed to February 5 due to winter weather and were also scheduled to play at West Central Friday, December 19, with results of that game to be printed in the December 31 edition of The Standard due to an earlier print deadline. The Waukon boys will return to the court after the holidays with a Saturday, January 3 non-conference game against Grand Meadow, MN at Luther College in Decorah.

The Waukon girls and boys bowling teams bowled a second consecutive meet at home this past week, this time hosting North Fayette Valley (NFV) Friday, December 19. As similar as their second consecutive meet at home was the end results for the bowling Indians, as the Waukon girls claimed another win, 2158-2028, and the Indian boys fell by a 1913-2225 result.

The Waukon bowlers will return to the lanes for back-to-back nights of competition after the holidays, bowling at Denver Thursday, January 8 and then hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 9 in a meet rescheduled from a December 5 weather postponement. The Indians will then host Decorah Friday, January 16 before taking part in the North Fayette Valley Baker Tournament Tuesday, January 20 and then competing at Oelwein Friday, January 23.

The Waukon girls wrestling team had this past week’s schedule trimmed to just a single weekend tournament date, as a quadrangular event at Janesville scheduled for Tuesday, December 9 was called off due to winter weather and has been postponed to Thursday, January 8. That lone competition of last week for the Indian mat ladies came at the South Winneshiek Tournament that took place at Luther College in Decorah Friday, December 12, where the Waukon girls compiled 88 team points on the strength of one individual champion and a pair of fourth-place individual finishes to end up in sixth place in the final team standings that involved 27 squads from throughout the Midwest.

The Waukon boys basketball team was limited to just a single game this past week after a Tuesday, December 9 game at Crestwood was postponed by winter weather and has been rescheduled for January 8. In the game the Indians were able to play this past week - a Friday, December 12 home game against North Fayette Valley (NFV), they were also able to keep their undefeated start to the season intact, overcoming a first quarter deficit with consistent outscoring efforts in the game’s final three frames to pull away to a 52-35 home victory over the visiting TigerHawks.

The Kee boys basketball team ended up playing just one game this past week, as a Tuesday, December 9 home game against Central Elkader was postponed by winter weather to Tuesday, December 23. The lone contest the Hawks did play ended up not quite going their way, as they traveled to Clayton Ridge Friday, December 12 and came home with a 73-65 defeat to suffer their first loss on the season, battling back from an early deficit to hold a brief lead before halftime and nearly pulling off another comeback effort late in the contest.

The Hawks were next scheduled for a busy week, playing De Soto, WI Monday, December 15 at Prairie du Chien, WI before playing at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, December 16 and hosting Crestwood Friday, December 19. Kee’s boys are slated to make up that December 9 home postponement against Central Elkader Tuesday, December 23.

The Waukon girls and boys bowling teams returned to the lanes after being idled last week by a weather postponement, hosting their first meet of the season when New Hampton came to town Friday, December 12 to bowl at Grumpy’s Lanes. The bowling Indians split that home match-up, as the Waukon girls posted a 2247-1557 win over the visiting Chickasaws but the boys ended up on the other side of their result to suffer a 1962-2681 loss to their New Hampton bowling counterparts.

The Waukon bowlers are next scheduled to wrap up their pre-holiday schedule with another home meet Friday, December 19 against North Fayette Valley. They will return to the lanes for back-to-back nights of competition after the holidays, bowling at Denver Thursday, January 8 and then hosting Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, January 9 in a meet rescheduled from that December 5 weather postponement.

The Waukon boys wrestling team got its 2025-2026 campaign off to a promising start, utilizing its full line-up to sweep three teams at a home quadrangular before coming up one place shy of a tournament win as well. The Indians dominated a home quadrangular event Tuesday, December 2 with wins of 78-3 over Tripoli, 78-6 over MFL/MarMac and 71-11 over Postville, before wrestling their way to second place in the 15-team Chris Davis Invitational hosted by Wapsie Valley High School Saturday, December 6, having three wrestlers bring home runner-up finishes from the tournament.

The Waukon boys basketball team got its 2025-2026 season off to an undefeated start against one foe each that is familiar and - like the Indians - new to the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC). The bucket Tribe got its winter campaign off to a thrilling start with a 54-53 triumph at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, December 2 before the Indians more easily handled fellow former Northeast Iowa Conference opponent New Hampton at home, playing to a 79-47 victory Friday, December 5.

The Indians were next scheduled to play at Crestwood Tuesday, December 9 and then host North Fayette Valley Friday, December 12. The final week before the holiday break will see the bucket Tribe host Clayton Ridge Tuesday, December 16, host Decorah Thursday, December 18 and then play at West Central Friday, December 19.

The Waukon girls basketball team split its pair of contests this past week, both of them being played within the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) and ending up with nearly identical point totals, just not necessarily both in the Lady Indians’ favor. The bucket Tribe began its week of competition suffering a 50-33 loss at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, December 2 but bounced back convincingly by handling New Hampton at home by a 53-33 final result to currently hold a 3-2 overall record in this early season, including a mark of 2-1 in UIC play.

The Waukon girls were next scheduled to play at Crestwood Tuesday, December 9 and host North Fayette Valley Friday, December 12. A Tuesday, December 16 home game vs. Clayton Ridge will be followed by back-to-back nights of competition prior to the holiday break, including a Thursday, December 18 home contest against Decorah followed by a Friday, December 19 road  battle at West Central.

The Waukon girls wrestling team had a busy four-day stretch this past week that started with dual matches against some of the smaller teams the Lady Indians are likely to face this season and ended with its biggest tournament of the season. The mat Tribe rolled through those first two dual matches of its 2025-2026 campaign with relative ease, posting wins of 66-6 over Postville and 53-15 over MFL/MarMac Tuesday, December 2 before taking part in the large, two-day Dan Gable Donnybrook in Coralville, finishing 33rd as a team in the 46-team tournament field from throughout the Midwest, with three Indians claiming finishes within the top-12 of their weight class brackets of at least 32 wrestlers.

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