Sports

Soph Rippel leads Viking golfers at WaMaC Super Meet

Dylan Rippel made second-team all conference with a 79 (14th place), leading the Vinton-Shellsburg boys golf team at the WaMaC Super Meet Monday at Solon "I am very proud of him.  He ...

Vikette 8th graders win home track meet

Chloe Osborne carries the baton for the first-place 8th grade Vikette 4 x 800 team. The Vinton-Shellburg Middle School 8th grade girls won their home meet, the Little Vikette Invitational, on Tuesday evening. The Vikettes scored 136 team points, 37 more than second-place Monticell...

Illinois driver Waterman wins Dirt Tour main event in Vinton

  VINTON – The first out-of-state driver to win a JR Motorsports Hawkeye Dirt Tour main event was the winner when the IMCA Modified series opened Tuesday night at Benton County Spee...

\'85 grad Jim Womochil gives up opportunity at ISU to lead VS football team

Jim Womochil has been working for Paul Rhoads at Iowa State University since December. But the 1985 Vinton graduate and former Viking and UNI Panther football player is giving up the college coachi...

VSHS Soccer: Vikings get first team win

Goalie Kyle McAbee stops a shot against Independence. The Vinton-Shellsburg High School boys soccer team, one of the first-year teams in Iowa this year, is celebrating its first win. The Vikings defeated Independence Tuesday evening in Vinton. The...

Former Vikette Shelby Beyer places in three events for UNI

4 x 100 handoff: VS alum Shelby Beyer receives the baton from a teammate. UNI freshman and 2011 VS graduate Shelby Beyer enjoyed success throughout her freshman year on the UNI track team. Shelby's mom, Dawn, reports that Shelby's last track meet was at the M...

WaMaC girls golf: Vikettes sixth, Natalie Ketchen earns honorable mention

The V-S Girls Golf team finished in sixth place in the WAMAC conference Super Meet at Gardner Golf Course (par 72), on May 7. Team Results: Dyersville Beckman 348 Western D...

Flanagan among winners at Benton County Speedway, May 6

Nathan Ballard Patrick Flanagan won the Modified feature by a bumper, edging past Joe Docekal at the checkered flag Sunday in Vinton. The winners of the feature races Sunday at the Benton County Speedway inc...

WaMaC Super Meet: Vikings finish 9th, Vikettes 14th

Cheyenne Barnes runs the 100 M dash during the WaMaC meet in Vinton. The first-ever coed WaMaC Super conference track meet took place in Vinton on Thursday evening. Both boys and girls teams competed, with more than 800 athletes signed up for track and field events....

Vikettes earn some career bests, defeat Benton at Wildcat, 186-196

  Benton Community's girls golf team played its best round of the season, but the Vinton-Shellsburg girls were 10 shots better than that Thursday, as the Vikettes defeated the Bobcats,...