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The Kee football team knew it would have its hands full heading into its Friday, September 14 home game with a Central City team that was undefeated, was averaging just under 60 points per game and featured one of the state’s leading rushers in senior Trey Holub with a per carry average of just over 24 yards per carry. Although the football Hawks held Holub nearly a third below his per carry average, he still managed to rack up 139 yards of offense and three touchdowns while getting considerable help from his teammates in finishing right near the Wildcats’ scoring average with a 60-12 Kee defeat.

The Kee volleyball team played through a winless week of competition, remaining in search of its first Upper Iowa Conference win of the season before being swept in a weekend tournament. The Hawks first opened their home volleyball schedule with a loss in four sets to Upper Iowa Conference foe North Fayette Valley Thursday, September 13 and then had three consecutive matches taken away from them in two straight sets each for a relatively short day at the Waukon Tournament Saturday, September 15.

Sporting a 2-13 match record on the season, the volleyball Hawks were next scheduled to play at Central Elkader Tuesday, September 18 before hosting West Central Thursday, September 27. Kee’s netters will then pull double duty with a road date at Clayton Ridge Tuesday, October 2 before playing at home against West Central Thursday, October 4.

The Kee cross country teams had their busiest week of the season, competing in a pair of meets within a couple days of one another. One of those meets was likely the largest the Hawks will compete in during the regular season, the Starmont Invitational Tuesday, September 11, where the Kee girls finished third and the Kee boys placed 20th. The Hawks then took part in the Central Elkader Invitational Thursday, September 13, the Lady Hawks returning to the top of that meet field and the Kee boys finishing fourth.

The Hawks were next scheduled to compete at the Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 18. Kee will then participate in the Jesup Invitational Tuesday, September 25.

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The Tuesday Night Men’s League at the Waukon Golf and Country Club completed its season with a championship match between the team of Kyle Halverson/Robert Campbell (pictured left to right above) and the team of Dan Headington/Kris Krueger. The Halverson/Campbell team won the final play-off match with a two-hole sudden play-off to become the 2018 Men’s League Champions. Seventeen two-man teams competed in the Tuesday Night Men’s League at the Country Club. The Men’s League has been held each summer at the Country Club since 1977. The season is made up of eight weeks of team matches between three different divisions, including match and medal play. Play-off qualifiers were involved in a five-week play-off. Submitted photo.
 

The Kee cross country teams finally returned to the race course after more than two weeks idle from competition, with the Lady Hawks returning right to the top of their team race and the Hawk boys placing fifth in their first team-scored race of the season at North Fayette Valley Thursday, September 6. The Hawks sat completely idle two weeks ago when the August 28 Oelwein Invitational and August 30 Charles City meet addition were both canceled due to weather, and then had the Tuesday, September 4 Clayton Ridge Invitational also canceled before finally being able to compete at North Fayette Valley.

The Waukon volleyball team got its Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) season off to a successful start this past week before playing in a weekend tournament in Cresco. The Indian netters swept Decorah in three sets to open both their NEIC and home season Tuesday, September 4 before winning four of six matches to finish third at the annual Kepros Tournament hosted by Crestwood High School in Cresco Saturday, September 8.

The volleyball Indians will now prepare to host their own home tournament this Saturday, September 15, details of which appear in a shaded box elsewhere on these Sports pages. The Tribe netters will then host Oelwein Tuesday, September 18 and will then host New Hampton Monday, September 24 before traveling to Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 25.

The Waukon football team continued its early-season non-district schedule against fellow Northeast Iowa Conference teams, traveling to New Hampton Friday, September 7. Although the two squads have waged war in some classic battles with postseason implications in recent years, this latest match-up was anything but that as the Indians rolled to a 46-21 victory over a New Hampton squad they eliminated in last season’s play-off run but whose now 0-3 season record provides evidence that it has obviously not rebounded from last year’s graduation loss as well as the Indians.

The Kee football team made one of its longer road trips Friday, August 31 when the Hawks traveled to Rockford for their final non-district game of the 2018 season. The senior-led host Warriors had racked up a 74-18 victory in their first game of this season on the strength of a high-powered running game, and that trend proved to continue as the Hawks were dealt a 70-14 defeat.

That Rockford ground game chewed up 415 yards against the Hawk defense, with all but two of the Warriors’ nine touchdowns coming on the ground. The Rockford senior tandem of Kaden Lyman and Jacob Staudt accounted for 141 and 273 yards, respectively, ending up with averages of 17.6 and 30.3 yards per carry in the contest, with Staudt racking up five touchdowns along the way.

After looking far and wide for its first competition of the season following weather cancellations, the Waukon boys cross country team ended up competing just a short distance away from home to open its 2018 season at the MFL/MarMac Invitational with a third-place team finish. The Indians first had their originally scheduled Tuesday, August 28 Oelwein Invitational canceled due to rainy weather, and then also had a schedule-added Charles City meet Thursday, August 30 canceled due to remnants of that rainy weather, before ultimately ending up competing at the Tri-City Golf Club near Luana Thursday, August 30.

The Indians got a pair of top-five individual efforts and ultimately had all their five scored runners finish in the top 25 individuals of the 55-runner varsity field. That effort was good enough for third place in the nine-team varsity field, just two points behind Class 1A fourth-rated South Winneshiek.

It was a bit of a challenge for the Waukon girls cross country team to gets its first competition of the season this past week, but once they did the Lady Indians made the most of it, sweeping the MFL/MarMac Invitational at both the varsity and junior varsity levels with some domination of the top-10 individual placewinnings. The distance Tribe first had its originally scheduled Tuesday, August 28 Oelwein Invitational canceled due to rainy weather, and then also had a schedule-added Charles City meet Thursday, August 30 canceled due to remnants of that rainy weather, before ultimately ending up just about 20 minutes down the road to top all teams at the Tri-City Golf Club near Luana Thursday, August 30.