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The Kee baseball team had its 2016 season brought to a close in one of the most unexpected fashions, bringing a more typical Kee baseball season of 20-plus wins to an end in not so typical Kee baseball fashion. After a rare first-round postseason tournament loss to Wapsie Valley last season, the Hawks opened this summer’s postseason tournament with a bit of revenge, paying back those Warriors with a 7-1 defeat in the Class 1A District 7 quarterfinals Tuesday, July 12 at home. That win matched the Hawks up with fellow Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) squad Edgewood-Colesburg, a team Kee had swept in two previous UIC contests but that soundly turned the tables on the Hawks to hand them their worst defeat of the season, a 19-0 season-ending loss in four innings in a District 7 semifinal game played at Jesup Thursday, July 14.
The loss ends Kee’s 2016 season with a 24-15 overall record that included an Upper Iowa Conference season championship mark of 14-2. The semifinal win by Edgewood-Colesburg advanced the Vikings on to the District 7 championship game Saturday, July 16 at and against eighth-rated Jesup, who defeated Turkey Valley by a 13-1 semifinal result in five innings. Edgewood-Colesburg went on to also upset Jesup by a 7-1 count in that Saturday match-up, advancing to the Class 1A Substate 4 championship game Tuesday, July 19 at Manchester to play fifth-rated Alburnett for the right to advance to the Class 1A State Tournament.
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