Sports

During the WaMaC wrestling tournament Saturday, four Vinton-Shellsburg wrestlers earned 6th place finishes. They include: Ryan Webster at 152; Jake Hessenius, 140; Ian Storey, 135; and Nathan Merchant, 119.  

 January 28, 2011   This Week's Results Coed Division               Sunday, January 23rd  Fareway / Tharp Design 34--2              Iron Shed / Hummel's 28--8  PHHF 26--10 Ron-Da-Voo 21--12 Diggers 20--13 Dominant Dingoes 18--15 Team Truax 9--27 Coots Materials 8--28  Natural Disasters 4--26  Koops 3--30   Dominant Dingoes 25--25--25 vs Koops 11--19--16 Fareway / Tharp Design 25--25--25 vs Team Truax 21--15--14 Natural Disasters 12--17--19 vs Ron-Da-Voo 25--25--25   Iron Shed / Hummel's 17--25--29 vs PHHF 25--20--27   Coots Materials 27--12--22 vs Diggers 25--24--25     Men's Division   Monday, January 24th Ron-Da-Voo 28--11 Neve's P.

       Benton Community avenged an earlier loss at Vinton, defeating the Vinton-Shellsburg boys, 59-50 on the court in Van Horne Friday night.      The Bobcats hit more than half of their three point tries, going 8 of 15 from behind the arc. Mitch Lester led the Bobcats with 17; Zach Twedt added 16.

       Vinton-Shellsburg Viking guard Logan Williams leads the entire state of Iowa among class 3A teams in assists. The Viking senior has recorded 88 assists in 15 games.      Williams is also fourth in scoring among all WaMaC West players, averaging 16.3 points per game. Brody Beatty is seventh, with an average of 15.

       The Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings ended their two-game losing streak with a 59-23 win at Waterloo Columbus Tuesday evening.      Brody Beatty led the Vikings with 19 points. Logan Williams added 14 and Jake Dyson, 10.      The Vikings travel to Van Horne on Friday to play Benton Community.

     With few high schools having swim teams, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings find themselves competing against the same swimmers several times throughout the season. Tuesday night, the Vikings hosted a home meet at the Iowa Braille School gym, where they again swam against the Decorah Vikings.        Coach Rob Levis submitted the following summary of the contest:        Despite a full house of supporters and their best performance of the year, the Vikings swimmers were unable to overcome a tough Decorah team last night at the IBSSS pool.

By Teresa Kuhn Give me G-R-A-N-N-I-E-S! Grannies??? These grannies aren't your ordinary grannies. These grannies come with hoops....and a basketball! While most teams have different colored jerseys with numbers, these gals have figured out that a simple thing like the color of socks that you wear also works, "that is how we tell the different teams.

       The Vikings Wrestling Club K-8th grade, Coached by Joel Neve, and assistant coaches Martin Halstead, Spencer Weeks, Steve Johnson and Pat Hyland, won second place at the Alburnett tournament Friday, Jan. 21.  They had a group of 19 wrestlers who competed and brought home a 2nd place trophy.      Pictured here are: Front row, from left: Cooper Sanders, Hunter Worthen, Brock Radeke, Jacob Worthen, Brady Ortner, Carter Weeks, Gabe Sanders, Keegen Scheeler, Michael Hoyle.

     The Vinton-Shellsburg boys and girls basketball team faced tough opponents Friday, and the girls on Saturday.     The girls hosted DeWitt Central Friday evening, while the boys traveled there. Vikettes lost 44-19, while the Vikings lost, 64-53.The Vikettes are now 7-7 in WaMaC  West Conference play, behind Williamsburg and Benton Community.

The Viking swimmers completed a demanding four-day stretch with a dual meet split Thursday night at Waterloo against East High and Decorah.  This was the Vikings third meet in four nights having travelled to Grinnell Monday and hosting East on Tuesday. Battling through tired legs and juggled line-up, Vinton-Shellsburg defeated a fired-up Waterloo East team 90 to 78 while falling to Decorah 106-64.