Sports
VS Girls earn spot in State Cross Country meet
With three top 10 finishers, the Vinton-Shellsburg girls cross country team earned a place in the State meet.
Sophomore Lily Horst finished second during the qualifying meet Thursday, at Waverly. Bristi Gerber, another 10th-grader, came in 6th; and freshman Cassie Kenney was 10th.
The girls team will compete in the Class 3A State event at the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Nov. Amber Pattee to serve as coach for VSHS Bowling Team; fund-raiser Nov. 16
The Vinton-Shellsburg High School Bowling team are excited to announce that Amber Pattee has volunteered to be the bowling coach for this bowling season. We really appreciate Amber stepping up to be our bowling coach - Thank you Amber!!!
Now, that the coaching position has been filled the bowling team is rolling onto to their last hurdle.
Freshmen win again; defeat Williamsburg, 46-30
The Vinton-Shellsburg ninth grade football team has one final chance to ring the victory bell this Tuesday, when they host Crestwood in a home game.
The freshmen won at Williamsburg before the varsity game; the varsity lost, 43-0.
Freshmen Coach Tony Stenberg shared this summary of Friday's win:
We won the game 46-30 with the offenses on both teams putting up a lot of yards.
WAMAC Cross Country: Girls take 3 of top 5 places; boys 2nd in team standings
Vinton-Shellsburg Vikette sophomores Lily Horst and Bristi Gerber led the way at the WAMAC Conference cross country meet, finishing first and second in the varsity girls race, as freshman Cassie Kenney finished fifth.
Juniors Jordan Evens (8th place) and Derek Dinderman led the Vikings in the boys varsity event.
The varsity boys were second in team scoring while the girls team finished in third place. West Delaware outscores Vikings, 56-22
Going into the 2013 season, Vinton-Shellsburg Coach Jim Womochil predicted that Decorah and West Delaware would be the two best teams in the conference.
Their records (Decorah, 7-0 and WD, 6-1), as well as the scoreboard the last two Friday nights are convincing evidence of that.
West Delaware built a 35-0 lead en route to a 56-22 victory in Vinton. Horst continues winning; finishes first at North Linn by 14 seconds
The Vinton-Shellsburg cross country runners faced a larger field than usual at the 18-team meet at North Linn on Saturday, but the individual outcome in the girl's event was the same: Vikette sophomore Lily Horst finished first.
Horst was first among 136 varsity runners, with a time of 14:36, 12 seconds ahead of the second place finisher. Dinderman gets first win as VS cross country success continues
Vinton-Shellsburg boys finished first in varsity team scoring there, as well.
Those two things have happened throughout the year.
But on Monday, VS had one more reason to celebrate.
Derek Dinderman, who has led VS runners throughout the season, finished in first place. The Viking junior completed the 5K course in 17:23.01, a little less than a second ahead of second-place Eric Douglas of Clear Creek-Amana. Viking freshmen come from behind, win at West Delaware, 32-25
Facing a new style of offense they hadn't seen before, the Vinton-Shellsburg ninth grade football had to make some big adjustments and come from behind to win at West Delaware.
Coach Tony Stenberg shares the following report:
We defeated West Delaware 32-25 in come from behind fashion last night. Our first lead of the game came with 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter and we were able to hold on for the victory from there on out. VS freshmen win again, 22-6
With the Vikings leading 16-6, the Decorah freshmen were attempting a fourth quarter rally when VS defensive back Lane Rowe added another interception to his 2013 stat sheet. He returned this one for a TD, putting the game out of reach. The Vikings won 22-6.
Coach Tony Stenberg summarized Friday's game, and the Vikings' 5-1 season:
We knew Decorah would have a good football team so we emphasized to our guys all week that we needed to out physical them and get off to a good start. Decorah stretches win streak to 20 with win at VS
For more than 42 minutes, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings played the Decorah Vikings about just as close as anyone else has in the past two years. The VS Vikings held the other ones to just two touchdowns, while the VS offense twice entered the red zone.
But the first six minutes of Friday's game in Vinton left V-S down, 21-0 to the Decorah team that hasn't lost since the 2011 State Championship Game.