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The Waukon softball team wrapped up its regular season this past week, playing four final games in four days. With three of those games being played against Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) foes, the Lady Indians opened the week with a doubleheader loss at Charles City by scores of 7-4 and 5-0 Tuesday, June 27 and ended the week with a 3-2 home loss to Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, June 30. In between that NEIC slide, the diamond Tribe recorded its lone win of the week, a 14-0 triumph in five innings at MFL/MarMac Wednesday, June 28.

The Lady Indians finished their regular season with a 15-14 season record that includes a 6-9 mark that placed them fourth in the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) standings. The Lady Indians are next scheduled to open their Class 3A Regional Tournament Thursday, July 6 at home against Crestwood.

The Waukon baseball team saved its best for last this past week, ending an early-week losing streak of four games with a final doubleheader sweep. That week began with home losses of 13-1 in five innings and 3-2 to Class 2A ninth-rated New Hampton Tuesday, June 20 before the diamond Tribe had a pair of games get away in the late innings Thursday, June 22 for losses of 8-4 and 6-5 in 10 innings at Oelwein. The Indians bounced back from that series of losses to payback a doubleheader sweep of Decorah with a sweep of two games on the road Friday, June 23 by scores of 13-9 and 7-3.

Now holding an even 15-15 season record that includes a mark of 8-10 in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play, the Indians were next scheduled to wrap up their regular season schedule with a NEIC doubleheader at Charles City Monday, June 26 before playing at MFL/MarMac Wednesday, June 28. They are then scheduled to begin Class 2A District Tournament play Wednesday, July 5 at New Hampton.

The Kee baseball team played to an even split of six games played this past week, with all of those wins coming in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play. The Hawks opened the week with a pair of narrow losses at UIC-leading South Winneshiek, 6-5 and 3-1, Monday, June 19 before posting a pair of wins at home over Postville Tuesday, June 20, 18-0 in four innings and 12-2 in six frames. The Kee boys also posted a 6-0 win at home over Clayton Ridge Thursday, June 22 before playing in the South Winneshiek Tournament Saturday, June 24, falling to Osage by an 8-7 result before having a second game of the tournament with Williamsburg rained out in just the first inning.

An abbreviated week of competition saw the Waukon softball team win two of three games. Book-ending this past week were two dates on the diamond Tribe’s schedule that ended up not being played, including a Monday, June 19 game at North Fayette Valley called off due to lack of umpires and the Indians opting not to play in the Decorah Tournament Saturday, June 24.

In between those two schedule adjustments, the Lady Indians handed the Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC)-leading Decorah Vikings just their second NEIC loss of this season, playing to a split of a Tuesday, June 20 home doubleheader with Decorah that included an 8-3 loss in game one but a 9-7 triumph in the second game. The Tribe wrapped up its week with a 13-8 victory at New Hampton Friday, June 23.

The past week played out to another undefeated week of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) games for the Kee softball team before ending with mixed results in a large weekend tournament. The Lady Hawks posted a pair of UIC sweeps at home, including wins over Postville Monday, June 19 by scores of 12-0 and 14-0 - both in just three innings, and the same over Central Elkader Wednesday, June 21 by final results of 4-2 and 7-2. Kee’s girls then played in the two-day Don Bosco Tournament Friday and Saturday, June 23-24, with the Hawks falling in two games Friday, 13-3 in five innings to Cedar Falls and 12-4 to Jesup. Saturday’s competition wrapped up the Lady Hawks’ week with a 10-2 win over Janesville shortened by rainy weather, which also cut short the remainder of the tournament, including Kee’s final game with Hudson.

The Harpers Ferry Fireflies traveled to West Des Moines Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11 for the Granny Basketball State Tournament. The Fireflies won five of six games they played in the tournament, with their lone loss coming in the championship game to make the Fireflies this year’s State Tournament Runner-Up.

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The Waukon baseball team was just a game away from an undefeated week, winning five of six games played this past week. The baseball Tribe opened the week with a home doubleheader sweep of Crestwood Monday, June 12 by scores of 16-6 in five innings and 11-4 before claiming a 7-2 win at Dubuque Senior Tuesday, June 13. The wins kept coming at Osage Thursday, June 15 with an 8-2 triumph, before the Indians split a home doubleheader with Waverly-Shell Rock Friday, June 16, falling in game one by a 9-1 result before bouncing back with a 4-1 win in the nightcap.

The Waukon softball team played through a busy week with better than average results of four wins in seven games. The softball Tribe opened the week with a doubleheader sweep at Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, June 13 with wins of 5-1 and 11-5 before being tripped up by a 6-5 result at Crestwood Wednesday, June 14. The Indians then played four games at the West Delaware Tournament, evenly splitting those games for the tournament and on each day of the event, including an 8-4 win over Dyersville Beckman followed by a 10-0 loss to Class 3A second rated Davenport Assumption in five innings Friday, June 16 and then another split Saturday, June 17 that included a 13-1 loss in four innings to Class 1A top-rated North Linn and a 7-2 win over Independence to finish in seventh place in the 16-team tournament.

The Kee baseball team played one of its lightest weekly schedules of the season this past week and came within a single run of making it an undefeated week of competition. The Hawks opened the week with a 9-6 win at Janesville Monday, June 12 before pulling out a 2-1 triumph at home against Turkey Valley Tuesday, June 13. Kee then brought home a 6-1 win from MFL/MarMac Thursday, June 15 before suffering its only loss of the week, a 2-1 loss in the bottom of the seventh inning at Wapsie Valley Friday, June 16.

In a week heavy on each end but light in the middle, the Kee softball team won half of its six games played this past week. The Lady Hawks opened the week with a sweep of an Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader at MFL/MarMac Monday, June 12 by scores of 13-1 in four innings and 12-7. They then played four games at the two-day West Delaware Tournament this past weekend, falling in two games Friday, June 16 by scores of 12-3 to Class 4A fifth-rated Western Dubuque and 6-5 to Edgewood-Colesburg before splitting two games Saturday, June 17 with an 8-2 win over Class 5A Cedar Rapids Washington followed by a 5-0 loss to North Fayette Valley to finish in 14th place in the 16-team tournament.