Sports

Hill sisters are opponents, but only for one night each season

Liz (left) and Sarah Hill shake hands before Game 2 of V-S/ CPU game in Center Point. Over the years, sisters Liz and Sarah Hill made a lot of history for the Vinton-Shellsburg softball program. Tuesday night, they made a little more.   After four years as teammates for...

Lebeda, Burroughs lead Red Cedar Shooters at State Trap Shooting event

The VSHS Red Cedar Shooters placed third in their second season. The Vinton-Shellsburg Red Cedar Shooters Trap Team competed at the Iowa State Trap Championships at the Cedar Falls Gun Club on Saturday June 5th.     This year, teams from...

Pitching gems for Noren, Seaton lead Vikings, Vikettes to victory at CPU

Lindsey Noren and Kody Seaton led V-S to victory with complete games at CPU Monday night. Lindsey Noren pitched the Vikettes to victory in Game 1 at Center Point, where V-S defeated CPU, 3-2 in the opener of a varsity double header. At the same time, Kody Seaton baffled CPU batters as t...

Pitching gems for Noren, Seaton lead Vikings, Vikettes to victory at CPU

Lindsey Noren pitched the Vikettes to victory in Game 1 at Center Point, where V-S defeated CPU, 3-2 in the opener of a varsity double header. At the same time, Kody Seaton baffled CPU batters as ...

Comeback bid fails as Vikings lose to Monticello 11-8 at Veterans Stadium

Starting pitcher Gunner Tranel is introduced as Vikings play at Veterans Stadium Friday. The Vinton-Shellburg baseball team came up short in its attempt for another come-from-behind win on Friday night.  In a varsity game against Monticello, the Vikings were down 11-8 going i...

Kositzky gets first career feature win in Vinton

Bill Whalen Jr. Vinton Sport Compact Winner Rainy weather held off long enough for the races to continue in Vinton Sunday, June 6. Bill Whalen won the Sport Compact Feature. Austin Kaplin was one Sport Modified Feature winner. Kent K...

Vikettes slay Knights, 6-0; get back to .500 mark

Catcher Ashley Boyer settles under a pop-up in front of the Union dugout. LA PORTE CITY – The Vinton-Shellsburg Vikettes put together another solid performance Saturday night, getting back to the .500 mark on the season with a 6-0 victory over the Union Knights...

Vikette bats back freshman pitcher Maddie Cornell, batter Anamosa, 3-1

Freshman Maddie Cornell held Anamosa to one run as the Vikettes win on the road, 3-1 at Anamosa. ANAMOSA – It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t bad. Coach Bari Parrott’s Vinton-Shellsburg softball team ended a three-game losing streak, downing Anamosa, 3-1 in a WaMaC C...

Viking boys come from behind again, sweep Anamosa 4-2 and 10-9

Vikings celebrate at home plate after Clint Ferguson's 2-run homer in inning 5 of Game 2. All the players on the V-S Vikings baseball team members were born after the original "Cardiac Kids," the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, which won the World Series by managing ...

Vikettes fight back, but lose to W Dubuque in extra innings, 11-5

VINTON – For a single WaMaC Conference softball game last night, the battle at Thole Field between Coach Bari Parrott’s Vikettes (2-4, 1-4 in the WaMaC), and Western Dubuque was actual...