Sports

VS Diamond Update: Struve could reach 500 milestone tonight; Vikettes blank ST

After two wins at East Marshall on Wednesday, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings are 2-1 on the 2013 season, and Coach Jim Struve is two wins away from joining the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association 500...

\'Play Ball!\' Vikings, Vikettes begin 2013 season

Luke Moen started the opening game for the Vikings. The high school soccer players and golfers put away their clubs and plastic cleats and traded their spheroids and gloves and footwear for those of a different type. Baseball and softball season...

Tiffany Auen leads Red Cedar Shooters in last home meet; State event next

Caleb Svoboda The Vinton-Shellsburg Red Cedar Shooters Trap team won its final meet of the regular season Saturday at the Izaak Walton League, hosting Cedar Rapids Jefferson in a dual meet. The Red Cedar Sh...

Vikettes 3rd at Regional golf contest; Randall, Ketchen advance to State

Girls pose for photos at the Regional event.   The Vinton-Shellsburg Vikettes came within just six strokes of earning a trip to the team State Golf Meet at the Regional contest on Monday, finishing in third place. Seniors Erin R...

Pitching coach Kauten's team returning to D-II National Championships

  A year after helping coach Heartland Community College of Normal, Illinois, to third place in the 2012 D-II National Championships, Vinton native Josh Kauten and the coaching staff and ...

Soccer, VS end season with 3-1 loss at Independence

Will Hancock attempted to score a goal with this header. The second season of Vinton-Shellsburg boys soccer ended Monday night with a first-round Sub-State loss at Independence, 3-1.  The Vikings and Mustangs remained scoreless until halfway thr...

VS at State Track: Personal best leads Sagan to 8th in 800

Payton Leonard competed in the 200 and 400 M dashe at State for VS. Nolan Sagan shaved nearly 5 seconds off his first-place finishing time in the District 800M dash during the State Track Meet finals on Saturday, finishing second in his heat and 8th overall in Clas...

Vikettes edge Benton at Tara Hills, 190-193

The Vinton-Shellsburg girls golf team defeated Benton Community by only three strokes on the Bobcats' lowest-scoring outing of the season. Coach's report: May 16, 2013 Benton &n...

Des Moines bound! Track teams leave VSHS; to compete this evening, tomorrow

Coach Heather Kalous speaks during the pep rally for VSHS State Track athletes. The eight Vinton-Shellsburg athletes who qualified for the State Track Meet loaded into school vans this morning after a pep assembly. They will compete tonight and/or tomorrow in Des Moines. ...

Hershey track meet winners earn right to advance to State event

Gracie Horst runs the 1600 during the Hershey Track Meet Tuesday. The Vinton Parks and Recreation held its annual Hershey Track Meet on Tuesday afternoon. Winners in each age/gender group earn the right to advance to the State eventl  Click HERE for ...