Sports

2015 registration for VSBC/Marv Lindsey Softball and Baseball will be this Sunday at Tilford Elementary.  3rd/4th/5th/6th grade softball will be held at 4:00 pm, 10U/9U baseball at 4:45 pm and 12U/11U baseball at 5:15.  More information regarding cost and paperwork needed can be found on our website - www.eteamz.com/vintonbaseballsoftball.

Vinton-Shellsburg wrestlers competed vs. Central Clinton on 01/15/2015. Results are below: Varsity: Central Clinton (CCLN) 33.00 Vinton-Shellsburg (VISH) 32.00 106: Tyler Bossom (CCLN) over Carter Weeks (VISH) (Fall 1:26) 113: Bryant Woodford (CCLN) over Wes Haefner (VISH) (Fall 0:45) 120: Isaac Payne (CCLN) over Brayden Laton (VISH) (Fall 5:18) 126: Navon Dunlap (VISH) over Brett Henningsen (CCLN) (MD 10-2) 132: Max Wehage (VISH) over Eric Schoel (CCLN) (MD 19-6) 138: Nick Hyland (VISH) over (CCLN) (For.

A standing room only crowd, senior night and a tight, competitive meet.  Thursday night the fans of Viking swimming were treated to a great show as Vinton-Shellsburg faced Waterloo East at the Braille School pool. In a meet that couldn’t have been much closer the Vikings came through in the clutch to pull out a 49-45 victory.  During the eleven-event meet neither team led at any time by more than 4 points.

There must be something in the water in Grinnell.  For the second time in the past month the Viking swimmers had a hugely successful performance at the Grinnell College pool.  Facing host Grinnell and Oskaloosa in a double dual Tuesday night, the Vikings split the meets falling to Grinnell 109 - 54 while defeating Oskaloosa 76-65.  But the big story of the night was the tremendous improvement the team registered across the entire lineup as the Vikes clocked 26 new personal best times to include some significant time drops by a number of swimmers and in a pair of relays.

John Betterton and Austin Wroblewski each earned first-place honors at the Center Point-Urbana JV Invitational wrestling meet recently. Several other Vikings also placed. See results below: CPU JV INVITE Results for Vinton-Shellsburg HS 2 - Clint Hill's place is 2nd and has scored 4.00 team points. Round 1 - Clint Hill (Vinton-Shellsburg) won by fall over Jacob Worthen (Vinton-Shellsburg) (Fall 1:53) Round 3 - Jack Streicher (Mount Vernon) won by decision over Clint Hill (Vinton-Shellsburg) (Dec 5-0) HS 2 - Jacob Worthen's place is 3rd and has scored 0.

All four Vinton-Shellsburg High School bowling teams were successful in beating Tripoli on Friday, Jan. 9.   "The scores are reflecting the skill level and the depth of good bowlers we have," says coach Amber Pattee.   The Varsity Boys team was led by Ben Wood with 233 and 247, followed by Jacob Gosse with 213 and 236.

Down by 13 at halftime, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings fell behind even further in their game against Benton on Friday. But junior Tyler Rippel led the Vikings in a thrilling comeback, as VS scored 25 in the fourth quarter to defeat the Bobcats, 72-64.  Rippel scored 28 for the Vikings, who earned their second victory of the season. See the Vikings stat page HERE.

The Vinton-Shellsburg Viking wrestling team recently completed against Clear-Creek Amana and Williamsburg. The Vikings lost to the Raiders, 49-18. The Clippers edged the Vikes, 40-35. VS vs. Williamsburg:   Williamsburg (WILL) 49.00 Vinton-Shellsburg (VISH) 18.00 106: Grayson Kesterson (WILL) over Carter Weeks (VISH) (Fall 1:33) 113: Cole Lehn (WILL) over Wes Haefner (VISH) (Fall 0:56) 120: Brayden Laton (VISH) over (WILL) (For.

Although high school wrestling should be about wins and losses, says Dan Gable, sometimes it becomes a matter of dealing with life and death. Speaking in December to a Vinton-Shellsburg wrestling team still dealing with the death of coach Steve Johnson, Gable said throughout Iowa, the wrestling community is dealing with a series of untimely tragedies.

Attention, Iowa and Iowa State fans: I have some good news. Like you, I have been surprised and disappointed to see the struggles of the Cyclones and Hawkeyes over the past few years and the disappointing scoreboards of this past season.  But today, I have some good news. Remember how they changed the BCS championship system because they wanted to be fair, to let teams decide on the field who is best, rather than allow some computer geek on his mobile device come up with some formula that mulches and mixes stats and win-loss records to determine who is No.