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The Waukon boys golf team had a busy early part of this past week before sitting idle for its remainder, playing on back-to-back nights to start last week. The Indians first shot a 158 to finish in second place behind the host squad at the Waverly-Shell Rock triangular Monday, April 20 before winning a dual match at home with New Hampton, 153-164, Tuesday, April 21.

The Indians were next schedule for a busy week this week, playing in a quadrangular hosted by Clayton Ridge at Guttenberg Monday, April 27 and then playing in a triangular at Sumner-Fredericksburg Tuesday, April 28 and in another triangular at West Delaware Thursday, April 30 before hosting both Caledonia and Houston from Minnesota Friday, May 1. The golf Tribe will then prepare for its Upper Iowa Conference Tournament hosted at Big Rock Country Club in Fayette Monday, May 4.

The Waukon boys golf team remained undefeated at home when the Indians topped the three-team field of their own home triangular Monday, April 13. The golf Tribe had all four of its scored golfers finish within the top seven individuals at the triangular, including a tie for medalist honors, to compile a team score of 154 strokes that finished ahead of MFL/MarMac’s team score of 162 strokes and the 173 strokes tallied by Central Elkader.

The Indians were next scheduled to play at Waverly-Shell Rock Monday, April 20 against the host Go-Hawks and New Hampton. They will then host New Hampton Tuesday, April 21 in a girl-boy dual meet for each squad before playing in a Clayton Ridge quadrangular at Guttenberg Monday, April 27, playing at Sumner-Fredericksburg Tuesday, April 28 and competing in the West Delaware 18-hole quadrangular Thursday, April 30. They will begin the month of May with a May 1 home triangular against Caledonia and Houston out of Minnesota.

In what turned out to be its only competition this past week, the Waukon girls golf team was the gracious host of a Monday, April 13 triangular. Having all four of their scored rounds end up in the 50s, the Lady Indians tallied 227 team strokes to end up in third place in the final three-team standings, behind the winning total of 201 strokes turned in by MFL/MarMac and just beyond the second-place tally of 224 strokes turned in by Central Elkader.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to join the Waukon boys in hosting New Hampton Tuesday, April 21 and then play in the seven-team New Hampton Invitational Thursday, April 23. The Waukon girls will then play in a North Fayette Valley quadrangular Monday, April 27 before hosting Decorah Tuesday, April 28, hosting Caledonia and Houston, MN Friday, May 1 and playing in a Decorah quadrangular May 2.

Addison Winters rewrites her own long jump and 400 meter hurdles school records, Lilah Strong ties high jump record, as both qualify for Drake Relays

The Kee girls track and field team ended up with just one meet on its competition schedule this past week but made the most of that opportunity with some record-setting and showcase-qualifying performances at the MFL/MarMac Invitational Thursday, April 16. The Lady Hawks claimed four event victories to lead the way to 92 team points and a third-place finish in that invitational field, with three of those wins resulting in school record results and two also securing another pair of qualifications for the Kee girls at the Drake Relays scheduled for later this week.

Lady Indians’ 4x100 crew of Schullo, Olson, Berns and Troendle qualifies for Drake Relays

The Waukon girls track and field team ended up having just one meet this past week, but made some recent history at that lone competition. The Lady Indians had their own Early Bird home invitational canceled Tuesday, April 14 due to weather conditions but came back strong in their lone competition of the week to win the New Hampton Invitational, racking up 98 team points behind five event victories that included a 4x100 win in a time that has qualified the Lady Indians for this week’s Drake Relays for the first time in 10 years.

The Waukon boys golf team played through a busy week of three events this past week, including a pair of late-week 18-hole events. The Indians found considerable success in that trio of competitions, winning two of the three and finishing runner-up in the other. Those wins included topping the three-team field of a Tuesday, April 7 home triangular before doing likewise in the Big Rock 18-Hole Tournament of five teams played at Fayette Thursday, April 9. The golf Tribe ended up in second place out of six teams playing in the South Winn Invitational Saturday, April 11.

The Waukon girls golf team played through a busy week of three events this past week, with all three of them ending up on consecutive days to end the week. The Lady Indians finished third in the four-team Big Rock 18-Hole Tournament Thursday, April 9 before making up a Tuesday, April 7 weather postponement Friday, April 10 and finishing second at that South Winneshiek Triangular. Waukon’s girls wrapped up their whirlwind latter half of the week placing third out of six teams at the South Winneshiek Invitational Saturday, April 11, with three of those teams not having enough players to formulate a team score.

The Kee girls track and field team took part in a busy week of what turned out to be three competition dates for some team members. The Lady Hawks finished third out of nine teams at the Bossom Relays hosted by Postville Tuesday, April 7 before coming in ninth out of 11 teams from all class sizes at the Decorah Invitational Thursday, April 9. Senior Addison Winters and junior Lilah Strong wrapped up the week competing at the Eastern Iowa Track & Field Festival hosted by Iowa City West High School Saturday, April 11, bringing home top-10 finishes in all five events they competed in, including four of those within the top-four individuals competing from all class sizes.

The Kee boys track and field team took part in its largest outdoor competition of this early season when they participated in the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31. Kee’s boys claimed a pair of first-place event finishes and one runner-up placewinning to headline their way to an eighth-place finish in the 10-team meet field with 46.5 team points.

The Hawks were also scheduled to compete at the Waukon Early Bird Invitational Thursday, April 2 but had that meet canceled by rainy weather. They were next scheduled to take part in the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, April 7 before competing in Postville’s Foster-Kiesau Relays Thursday, April 9. They will then take part in the Decorah Relays Monday, April 13 before taking part in the MFL/MarMac Coed Invitational Thursday, April 16.

The first outdoor competition of the season for the Waukon boys track and field team proved to be a promising early success, as even though the Indians were a bit short-handed due to attendance by some team members at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference early in this past week, they were still able to top the 10-team field of the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31. The track and field Tribe recorded four event wins, half of which were coupled with runner-up finishes to claim  a pair of one-two event sweeps that helped rack up 145 team points to claim team championship honors over the 10-team meet field.