Sports

Viking swimmers set many personal bests at season-ending District Meet

Facing Mason City, Decorah and five Mississippi Valley Conference schools we finished eight, not too far behind Waterloo East and Cedar Falls.  The boys capped a good season with another stro...

Four Viking wrestlers advance to Districts

Max Wehage was  2nd at 113 at the sectional meet. Four Vinton-Shellsburg wrestlers placed first or second at the ectional Wrestling Meet at Union High School on Saturday, February 8. They included first place winners Nick Hyland (132 pounds) a...

Senior Night: VS bowlers win all three contests vs. Waterloo Columbus

Alyssa Bunge led the Vikette bowlers with a 173/339 performance. Jacob Gosse ended his last game with a turkey – three strikes in a row, for those of you unfamiliar with bowling terminology – and scored a team high 203 during Friday’s final hom...

Hawkeye Dirt Tour schedule announced; Vinton event May 13

The fifth annual XSAN Hawkeye Dirt Tour takes the best Modified drivers from in and around Iowa to 11 different tracks this season.  IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds race for a minimum ...

Three-pointers, turnovers doom Vikings in 46-42 loss to Benton

Chase Overton drives to the basket. With a minute and ten seconds left to go in the third quarter, the Vinton-Shellsburg basketball team held its biggest lead of the night: 6 points. Ten seconds later, they were behind by on...

Nolan Sagan named KCRG Athlete of the Week

Athlete of the Week nominee: V-S Viking Nolan Sagan leads his team and conference in scoring. Nolan Sagan, the Viking leading scorer who is also near the top of the Wamac West scoring statistics, is this week's KCRG Athletes of the Week  The station will feature Nolan duri...

CPU edges Vikings in final seconds, 38-35

Grif Williams attempts a shot at CPU on Friday. The Vinton-Shellsburg boys basketball team continued its trend of last-second games on Friday, but this time they came up short.  For the second time this year, the Vikings lost by 3 ...

Vikings improving weekly after rough start, defeat No. 4 Solon

Opposing boys basketball teams may look at the Vinton-Shellsburg record (4 wins, 8 losses) and stat sheet (no conference leaders in any major category) and think that this year's team could...

Benton County Speedway to be part of 2014 IMCA Late Model Series

A dozen dates at three different tracks comprise the inaugural IMCA Late Model Sunday Series. Benton County Speedway in Vinton, I-35 Speedway in Mason City and Stuart Speedway each host four e...

Viking wrestling results; VS defeats Cascade, CCA and Marion

The Vinton-Shellsburg wrestling team won three of four contests recently. The Vikes defeated Clear Creek-Amana, Marion and Cascade, but lost to CPU. Vinton-Shellsburg (VISH) 45.0 Cascade (CASC) 30...