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Ranked Vikings, Vikettes aiming to qualify for State at Regional CC event

Derek Dinderman has been among the leaders for the Viking CC team all season. Derek Dinderman and Lily Horst are leading the Vinton-Shellsburg cross country teams as the runners prepare for the Regional contest Thursday at Hart Ridge Golf Course near Manchester. The Regiona...

Vikings to participate in Waverly-Shell Rock Pink Night, Friday

The Waverly-Shell Rock and Vinton-Shellsburg football teams and coaches are teaming up in a national effort to fight cancer through the American Cancer Society’s Coaches vs. Cancer program a...

Former Vikes help college teams to gridiron wins

Former Vikes Troy Hallberg (61)  & Marshall Mullinex (86) with their families at a recent IWC game. Former Vinton-Shellsburg Viking Gunner Tranel sacked the University of Wisconsin-Stout quarterback, broke up a pass, and made a career-high 15 total tackles in Wartburg's 45-14 win on Sept. 20...

Union Knights dominate at homecoming 49-0 over East Marshall‏

The Union Knight defense opened up with fumble recovery by senior Justin Carey on the first series of the game at La Porte City on Friday night and the offensive scored quickly when Tate Hadachek ...

Carrying the ball: VS Cross country teams continue unique Homecoming tradition

XC/FB tradition: Jordan Evans hands the Homecoming game ball to Viking senior center Warren Rouse. In certain parts of eastern Iowa, on certain fall Friday afternoons, drivers have slowed down, to look at an unusual sight: Teenagers jogging along the shoulder of the road while carrying a footbal...

Mustangs spoil VS Homecoming, 29-12

Austin Bohnsack caught two passes late in the 2nd quarter and scored the Vikings' first TD. After playing a scoreless first quarter in its Homecoming game vs. Independence, Vinton-Shellsburg fell behind, 14-0 after two second quarter touchdowns by the Mustangs.  Late in the seco...

Meet VS Hall of Fame inductee Gary Tharp

VS Hall of Fame: Gary Tharp was among the first Viking wrestlers when the program began in 1958. Forty six winters ago Gary Tharp was a ninth-grader when he became one of the first-ever Vinton Viking wrestlers. During that season of 1958-59 and over the next three, he set several “firsts...

From Vikette guard to \'Library Lady:\' Hall of Fame honoree Wendy Heineman Ewoldt

Wendy Heineman Ewoldt was a starting guard (as a sophomore) on the 1978 Girls Basketball Team that placed 3rd in State (still at a time when there were no "classes" and the Vikettes compe...

Shellsburg athlete Brian White joins VS Hall of Fame

The Viking-Vikette Hall of Fame includes those who competed for their hometown schools of Shellsburg and Garrison before those schools merged with Vinton. One of the 2014 inductees is Brian White, ...

Viking Hall of Fame to add Kory Winsor

VS Hall of Fame: Kory Winsor played basketball, baseball and football for the Vikings. The Viking-Vikette Hall of Fame adds for new members this year, including Kory Winsor. Kory  was member of member of the 2000 Viking Football team to win the first District Championship an...