Sports
Hammar, Emrich lead Vikettes to victory at Clear Creek Amana
Erika Hammar led the Vinton-Shellsburg girls basketball team with 10 points as the Vikettes defeated Clear Creek-Amana, 42-29, Tuesday night. Allison Emrich added 9 to help the Vikettes earn a road win. The girls travel to Marion on Friday. See game stats HERE.
Beatty, Williams lead Vikings to win over CCA; Marion challenge next
Down by two early in the fourth period, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings looked to the guys who have led them in scoring throughout the season.
And Brody Beatty and Logan Williams came through. Beatty tied the game at 44 with two free throws. Williams hit a three. Beatty scored on a pass from Williams, was fouled and hit the free throw. Viking swimmers have 'best' performance at WaHawk Relays
We swam really well Saturday at the Wahawk Relays. This is a large, and very competitive, meet with an unusual format where nearly every event is set up as a relay. There were 8 schools and more than 190 athletes participating to include Cedar Falls, Iowa City West, Linn-Mar, Waterloo East, Waterloo West, Decorah, Newton and the Vikings.
Meet the Little Viking wrestlers
During last Thursday's home wrestling meet, the Vinton Parks and Recreation Department Little VIking wrestlers were introduced to the crowd.
The Little Vikings have their Vinton tournament this Sunday, Jan. 16. The older Vikings will celebrate Senior Night this Thursday when the VS wrestlers host Solon and Williamsburg. Free throws, Dyson three-pointers lift Vikings past Mustangs
Vinton Shellsburg left Independence with a win Friday night, and headed home for more tough games next week.
The Vikings ended a week of road games with a 58-46 win at Independence.
The Mustangs have struggled this season, but they gave the Vikings all they could handle. Vikings win at Union, play at Indepedence tonight
Bouncing back from a tough 5-point loss at Williamsburg on Tuesday, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings went to La Porte City on Thursday, where they defeated Union, 53-34.
Jake Dyson led the Vikings with 14 points, six of them on 3-point shots, while Logan Williams added nine.
The Vikings stay on the road, traveling to Independence tonight.
Latest VPRD volleyball standings
The team from Fareway/Tharp leads the co-ed division in the VPRD volleyball league. Ron-Da-Voo leads the men's division while Terry's Gutter service and Iron Shed/Hummel's lead the two women's divisions.
Click HERE to see the lastest Vinton Park and Recreation volleyball standings, as well as results from the latest contests.
Viking swim team finds more success
Once again the guys did a super job representing our school Tuesday night at Waterloo.
Despite some illnesses, we managed to hang in and beat Waterloo East 95-75 at their home pool. We fell to Decorah 109-61. We had three more event wins.
Our guys won two individual events with Brandon Tharp in the 100 Breast and John Levis in the 200 Free, and the 200 Free Relay team of Rico Carneiro, Levis, Josh Yerkes and Tharp also took home first place in their event.
Williamsburg rallies from 10 behind to defeat Vikettes, 43-41
Williamsburg only led for 11.4 seconds. But it was all they needed.
The Vinton-Shellsburg Vikettes resumed their season after the Christmas break Tuesday night, meeting Williamsburg. The Vikettes led 19-15 at the half, and 35-26 at the end of the third quarter.
But Williamsburg pressured the VIkettes throughout the fourth quarter, slowly chipping away at the lead. Dodgeball champions crowned
The Vinton Parks and Recreation Department held its Youth Dodgeball Tournament at the Recreation Center. The team's members, as pictured left to right:
3rd & 4th Grade: Scott Betterton, Brock Radeke, Luke Radeke
5th & 6th Grade: Scott Wirth, Connor Bendull, Josh Staab, Conner Miracle
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