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The 2020-2021 Waukon wrestling season came to a close for all but one Indian matman Saturday, February 6 as the mat Tribe competed for extension of its season at its Class 2A Sectional Tournament at Decorah. That lone Indian continuing his season is sophomore Jakob Regan, who wrestled to a runner-up finish at 120 pounds to advance to the Class 2A District Tournament to be wrestled at New Hampton this Saturday, February 13.

Behind the lead of that runner-up finish, the Indians scored 76 team points to place sixth in the tournament’s six-team final standings. Eight different Indians competed in the tournament, with the Indian point total also benefiting from a pair of third-place finishes, one each of fourth- and fifth-place finishes and three sixth-place finishes out of this past weekend’s postseason competitors.

The Waukon wrestling team had a busy latter portion week of this past week, competing in four dual meets late in the week before competing in a final weekend tournament prior to postseason competition. The Indians first competed in that four-dual event at MFL/MarMac Thursday, January 28, securing their first two dual meet victories of the season with wins over Clayton Ridge, 48-12, and over Oelwein, 45-34, but also falling to Postville, 44-30, and to the host Bulldogs, 66-9. The mat Tribe then competed in the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Saturday, January 30 at Decorah, finishing sixth in the final team standings while having sophomore Jakob Regan wrestle to a team-best individual runner-up finish at 120 pounds.

The wrestling Tribe is next scheduled to prepare for its Class 2A Sectional Tournament at Decorah this Saturday, February 6, beginning at 12 noon.

For the second time this season, both the Waukon girls and boys bowling teams came away victorious from a scheduled date, both squads recording victories at home over Sumner-Fredericksburg Friday, January 29. The Indian girls came away with a 2096-1876 victory for their fourth meet victory on the season and the Tribe boys completed the sweep by pulling out a close triumph, 2534-2509, to pick up their third victory of this 2020-2021 campaign.

The Indians had a winter weather threat cancel their Conference Tournament that had been scheduled for Saturday, January 30 at Cadillac Lanes in Waterloo.

The Waukon girls basketball team continued its recent winning ways with another undefeated week to its credit, adding three more games to a now eight-game winning streak. That latest string of success began with a 50-28 home win over Clayton Ridge Monday, January 25 before handling New Hampton at home as well, 52-30, Tuesday, January 26. The bucket Tribe wrapped up the week with a 57-36 victory at Charles City Friday, January 29.

The Kee boys basketball team was within one quarter of playing to an undefeated week, winning two of its three games this past week. The Hawks opened the week avenging an early-season loss to MFL/MarMac and snapping a losing streak to the Bulldogs that dated back to 2002 with a 67-62 road triumph Tuesday, January 26. They closed out the week with a split of two consecutive nights of competition, finishing a regular season sweep of Central Elkader with a 65-40 road win Thursday, January 28 before coming up just a quarter short at Upper Iowa Conference-undefeated North Fayette Valley, 60-50, Friday, January 29.

The Waukon wrestling team returned to competition late this past week after a two-week absence from competition due to weather postponements a week earlier. That return to action amounted to seven dual meets for the mat Tribe within 48 hours, starting with a double-dual loss at home Thursday, January 21 to both Charles City, 60-24, and Caledonia, MN, 56-18. The Indians then competed at the Denver Duals Tournament Saturday, January 23, falling in all five of those meets by scores of 57-20 to New Hampton/Turkey Valley, 40-39 to North Linn, 45-30 to North Fayette Valley, 60-24 to the host Denver squad and 40-34 to Dyersville Beckman.

The wrestling Tribe is next scheduled to wrap up its regular season dual meet schedule Thursday, January 28 at MFL/MarMac before wrestling in the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Saturday, January 30 at Decorah. The Indians will then prepare for their Class 2A Sectional Tournament at Decorah Saturday, February 6.

The Waukon boys basketball team came up just shy of a second consecutive undefeated week, adding its first two games of this past three-game week in three consecutive nights to what became a six-game win streak before having that winning stretch snapped by a 70-65 loss at Dyersville Beckman Saturday, January 23. Prior to the end of that streak, the Indians posted considerable victories on the two consecutive nights prior, blasting MFL/MarMac on the Bulldogs’ home court, 86-55, Thursday, January 21 before snapping what had amounted to a 25-game losing streak to Waverly-Shell Rock spanning 12 seasons with a 76-68 home win over the Go-Hawks Friday, January 22.

The Kee girls basketball team split its pair of games this past week in battles with fellow Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) teams near each end of the league standings at this point in the season. The Lady Hawks opened the past week with a 66-22 tripling up at winless Postville Tuesday, January 19 before falling for the second time this season to recently-ranked Turkey Valley by a 51-38 final margin at home Friday, January 22.

Now holding an even 7-7 overall record, 6-5 in Upper Iowa Conference play, the Kee girls were next scheduled to play at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, January 26, make up a January 15 postponed date at Central Elkader Thursday, January 28 and play at UIC-undefeated North Fayette Valley Friday, January 29 before returning home Tuesday, February 2 against Clayton Ridge. The Lady Hawks will then host South Winneshiek Friday, February 5 before wrapping up their regular season with a home non-conference date against East Buchanan Monday, February 8.

The Waukon girls basketball team had just one game on its schedule this past week, but what a game it turned out to be. The Lady Indians traveled to Riceville Saturday, January 23 to take on a Wildcat team that held a 14-2 season record that included an eight-game win streak, with the Indians putting an end to that streak but needing an overtime period to do so, 44-42. Defense was the name of the game in this rare Saturday match-up, as the Indians were held to their lowest four-quarter point total of the season in playing to a 34-34 scoreboard knot at the end of regulation play, with the only other games where they were held to as few as 44 points total this season both being losses to Class 4A seventh-rated Waverly-Shell Rock.

The Waukon girls basketball team played its way to an undefeated week in a busy three-game slate this past week that took them on the road and back home, and in and out of the Northeast Iowa Conference. That week’s worth of wins improved the Tribe’s current win streak to four games and started with consecutive nights on the road that included a 59-51 triumph at previously undefeated North Fayette Valley Monday, January 11 followed by a Tuesday, January 12 win at Crestwood, 64-40. The Indians wrapped up the week with a 55-23 home win over Oelwein Friday, January 15.