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The Waukon bowling teams returned to competition following the holiday break, playing host to North Fayette Valley Friday, January 4. That return proved to be a sweeping success, as both the girls and boys teams recorded victories over the visiting TigerHawks, the Indian ladies posting their second win of the season in five competition tries, 2121-1158, and the Waukon bowling boys holding on for a 2698-2638 victory for their fourth win of the season against just one defeat.

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The Waukon boys basketball team returned from the holiday break looking to put an end to a four-game losing streak and yet winless Northeast Iowa Conference start to the season. The Indians came within a couple seconds and a couple points of doing both, falling by just a 78-76 result at home against Charles City Friday, January 4 before suffering a 63-54 loss to Dike-New Hartford Saturday, January 5 at Wartburg College in Waverly.

Now holding a 2-7 season record, the basketball Tribe will next play a busy schedule of three games this next week, including back-to-back nights hosting North Fayette Valley Monday, January 7 and then playing at MFL/MarMac Tuesday, January 8 before playing at New Hampton Friday, January 11. The Indians will then host Oelwein Friday, January 18.

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The Waukon wrestling team returned from its holiday break with a busy latter half of the first week of the new year. The mat Indians first wrestled in a double-dual at Decorah Thursday, January 3, falling to both Decorah, 57-18, and Sparta, WI, 58-24. The wrestling Tribe then competed at the annual Flanagan Invitational hosted by Crestwood High School in Cresco Saturday, January 5, finishing 10th in the final 11-team standings of that tournament event.

The wrestling Tribe was next scheduled to wrestle at Caledonia, MN Friday, January 11 before competing in the Decorah Tournament Saturday, January 12. The Indians will then take on both Waverly-Shell Rock and Charles City at Waverly Thursday, January 17 before competing in the Riceville Tournament Saturday, January 19.

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The Kee girls basketball team played a pair of busy book-ends to the holiday break, winning three of four games that were spread evenly on each side of the new year. The basketball Lady Hawks split the first half of that book-end competition, winning at De Soto, WI, 58-24, Thursday, December 20 before suffering their first loss in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play since the 2016-2017 season, 47-28, to a yet undefeated MFL/MarMac squad Friday, December 21 prior to the holiday break. When the Kee girls returned to the court, they also returned to their winning ways, sweeping back-to-back games with wins of 63-17 at West Central Friday, January 4 and 51-33 at Mabel-Canton, MN Saturday, January 5.

Now holding a 10-2 record on the season, including a 7-1 mark in UIC play, the Lady Hawks were next scheduled to play host to South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 8 and then Postville Friday, January 11. The Kee girls will then play at Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 15.

The Kee boys basketball team returned from the holiday break much like it entered it, traveling to take on an Upper Iowa Conference foe. Fortunately, the Hawks’ returning result was not the same as its entrance a couple weeks earlier, as they posted a 52-34 victory over a winless West Central squad Friday, January 4 to improve to a 2-7 season record that includes a 2-6 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play.

The Hawks were next scheduled to host a pair of Upper Iowa Conference foes, including South Winneshiek Tuesday, January 8 and Postville Friday, January 11. The Kee boys will then travel to Clayton Ridge Tuesday, January 15 before also hitting the road to take on Houston, MN Thursday, January 17.

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The Waukon girls basketball team played host to a yet winless Decorah team just prior to the holiday break Friday, December 21. The hardcourt Tribe  held the visiting Vikings to just six total field goals in the contest, with just one of those coming in the first half on the way to an early dominating lead and eventual 50-20 Indian victory.

Improving to a 7-1 overall season record, and now with a 4-1 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Lady Indians are scheduled to return to action after the new year with a Friday, January 4 Northeast Iowa Conference contest at Charles City.

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Senior Michael Sweeney scores 1,000th point of his high school career

The Waukon boys basketball team’s Friday, December 21 Northeast Iowa Conference contest at Decorah featured an early Christmas gift for Waukon senior Michael Sweeney, as a three-pointer he hit late in the ballgame pushed him to the Waukon boys basketball elite status of being just the fourth player in program history to score 1,000 points in his career. However, the host Vikings tossed in a total of 12 three-point bombs throughout the contest to help methodically pull away from the basketball Tribe on the way to a 60-49 Indian defeat.

The Indians were next scheduled to return from the break with a Friday, January 4 home game against Charles City before playing at Wartburg College Saturday, January 5.

A troublesome second quarter for the Kee boys basketball team proved to loom large in the Hawks’ 72-48 loss at MFL/MarMac prior to the holiday break Friday, December 21. The Kee boys were outscored by a 19-4 count in that fateful frame, with much smaller margins in the remaining quarters not allowing the Hawks to make up any of that lost ground.

The Hawks were scheduled to return to the court following the holiday break this Friday, January 4 at West Central.

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The Waukon wrestling team wrapped up the 2018 portion of its season schedule with a split of two non-conference dual meets at home, hosting both Fillmore Central out of Minnesota and South Winneshiek Tuesday, December 18. The double-dual also marked the end of the mat Tribe’s home schedule for this season, the Indians earning a split of that final home affair by pulling off a comeback effort over Fillmore Central for a 39-33 triumph before falling to South Winneshiek by a 30-45 final.

South Winneshiek swept the mat event with a win over Fillmore Central as well, also defeating the Wolves from Minnesota by a 47-30 final result.

The wrestling Tribe will return to action following the holiday break Saturday, January 5 by competing in the Crestwood Tournament.

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Senior Maddie Ahlstrom becomes new career assist record holder in rare win over Caledonia

The Waukon girls basketball team bounced back from its first loss of the season late in the previous week to open this past week with a pair of non-conference victories, clipping the wings of the Clayton Ridge Eagles for a 48-17 home victory Monday, December 17 before returning home with a rare victory, 64-59, from Caledonia, MN Tuesday, December 18. That win over Caledonia not only snapped a six-season losing streak to the Warriors but also featured the achievement of a new school record for assists in a career by senior Maddie Ahlstrom, whose five assists in the contest pushed her past the previous record of 210 career assists compiled by 2010 Waukon High School graduate Tatum (Meyer) Wagner.