Sports
After five years, VSHS Pink Night tradition continues to honor area survivors
Five years ago, at the first Pink Night, a few dozen breast cancer survivors gathered at Vinton-Shellsburg High School.
Members of the Vikette basketball team escorted them to the court, as the audience applauded their courage.
That first event in the winter of 2010 was the beginning of a new tradition at VSHS, a few new traditions in the Vinton community and led to the forming of a new organization – Benton County Breast Cancer Survivors. Coach of the Year: Rob Levis earns first award from new swim conference
Because Vinton-Shellsburg is the only Wamac Conference school with a swim team, the Vikings swimmers have joined a new conference known as the North Central Swim Conference.
At the inaugural NCSC meet last weekend, V-S came home with the Coaching Staff of the Year Award. Coaches include varsity boys coach Rob Levis, and girls coach Mike Dominick, who has filled in for the boys’ team when Levis has been out of town. Viking swimmers compete in first NCSC meet; District event Saturday
A season of significant improvement continued Saturday as the Viking swim team travelled to Decorah to participate in the first North Central Swim Conference (NCSC) Meet. Vinton-Shellsburg finished fifth in the six team meet won handily by Decorah.
The top Viking performances on the day included relay finishes of 7th in the 200 Free Relay (Ryan Levis, Caleb Kruckenburg, Matt Upmeyer and Anthony Dickerson), 8th in the 200 Medley Relay (Upmeyer, Levis, Dickerson and Jonah Blix) and 8th in the 400 Free Relay (Kruckenburg, Blix, Upmeyer and Levis).
Vikings lose to Decorah in final home swim meet of season
Vinton-Shellsburg faced off with Decorah Thursday evening in their final home meet of the season, falling in a competitive match by the score of 53-39.
The home team started the meet out with an exciting win in the 200 Medley Relay. The team of Matt Upmeyer, Ryan Levis, Anthony Dickerson and Jordan Evans edged Decorah’s A relay by 1/100thof a second.
Hyland wins Wamac title at 138; Wehage, Henry also place
Congratulations to Vinton-Shellsburg wrestler Nick Hyland, who finished first at the Wamac wrestling meet Saturday.
Other Vikings who placed during the event at Western Dubuque included Max Wehage, 3rd at 126; and Steve Henry, 4th at Heavyweight. Former Viking Cornell earns win for No. 25 Taylor in Florida
Former Vinton-Shellsburg standout pitcher Maddie Cornell earned her first win of the 2015 season this week, as her Taylor University Trojans defeated Northwood in Florida.
Cornell, the daughter of Dave and Kelly Cornell of rural Vinton, pitched a complete game shutout. She is a sophomore at Taylor, which is located in Upland, Ind. Although her team lost the first game in which she pitched (after giving up five unearned runs in one inning), Cornell has an ERA of zero after two games. VS wrestlers take on Grinnell
The Vinton-Shellsburs wrestlers competed vs. Grinnell vs. on Jan. 27. See results below:
Grinnell (GRIN) 51.00 Vinton-Shellsburg (VISH) 26.00
106: Carter Weeks (VISH) over Alexander Farmer (GRIN) (Fall 1:56) 113: Garrett Loftin (GRIN) over Wes Haefner (VISH) (Fall 2:44) 120: Lane Milner (GRIN) over Brayden Laton (VISH) (TF 15-0 5:46) 126: Max Wehage (VISH) over Kaiden Gosselink (GRIN) (MD 20-7) 132: Dalton Kies (GRIN) over (VISH) (For.
Knights of Columbus Free Throw Contest announces winners
The annual Knights of Columbus free throw contest was held last Saturday at Tilford elementary.
Winners of the contest were:
Kalli Burke, 9
Alyssa Griffith, 10
Curtis Erickson, 10
Kayla Griffith, 11
CJ Rickels, 12
Tia Burke, 13
Jack Shaw, 13
Jacob Stocker, 14
22 boys and girls competed. 20 from Vinton, and 2 from Benton Community. VS bowlers defeat Denver on Senior Night
Senior night is always the hardest night for me as a coach. It is great to see how these guys have grown even just over a years time. They are all great kids and I have loved working with them.
All four teams performed well at the meet and beat Denver on all levels.
The Varsity boys were led by Jacob Gosse 227, Cole Garwood 226, Ben Wood 223, Nick Stein 212 and Daniel Janssen 212.
Stein, Bunge place in Sires bowling event
Local bowlers enjoyed bowling a pins over average competition over the holiday break in Cedar Rapids. The Sires Classic Holiday Youth tournament bowlers divides into multiple groups by the their bowling average. After bowling three games, the bowlers took their score minus the bowling average that they had earned in their league bowling to reach their final score for the tournament.