Sports : Vikings improve to 14-8; to travel to DeWitt Central tonight

The Vinton-Shellsburg varsity baseball team won two of three games early this week and has double-headers tonight and a game at Mount Vernon on Friday before hosting rival Benton Community for a double-header on Monday. Coach Jim Struve summarized this week's games: Monday---Vikings split a conference double header with Clear Creek-Amana losing the first game 2-5 and winning the second game 9-3. Nathan Struve pitched 5 innings to pick up the Win and Scottie Wirth earned the Save with 2 innings of solid relief. Jordan Womochil, Jared Thompson, and Nathan Struve led the Vikings with 2 hits a piece.
Wednesday---The Vikings beat Hudson 5-3 in a non-conference game at Viking Field. Blake Bohnsack pitched 5 2/3 innings of relief and allowed no hits or runs to pick up his first Varsity Win. Jared Thompson highlighted the offensive attack with a 2 RBI Homerun. Jordan Womochil added 2 doubles, Nathan Struve and Will Edwards each recorded 2 hits a piece.
The Vikings are 14-8 on the season. See the team's stat/schedule/score page HERE.