Sports

Opening night races rescheduled due to postponed Frostbusters

Regular season openers at four IMCA sanctioned tracks have been rescheduled due to postponed Frostbuster specials. First local point races of the season at Southern Iowa Speedway will be Wedne...

VS spring sports schedule listed

Area soccer, track, golf and trap shooting fans can see the complete Vinton-Shellsburg athletic schedule, which includes high school and middle school teams, HERE....

Vikettes win soccer opener vs. Mount Vernon in OT, 3-2

Senior Ashley McKenna pursues the ball vs. Mount Vernon. Every year, says VS girls soccer coach Dave Cornell, the team will have a new look. That’s because every year, more underclassmen will have had one more year of pre-high school soccer exp...

Red Cedar Shooters place 5th in openers; home trap meet Saturday

The Vinton-Shellsburg High School "Red Cedar Shooters" trap shooting team kicked off their 2014 competition season by taking 5th place overall in 2 separate trap invitationals h...

Weather delays early VSHS athletic events

The continued cold has caused delays in some of the first Vinton-Shellsburg athletic contests of the season.  Boys and girls golf openers vs. Center Point-Urbana, originally scheduled for ...

Second-year racer Leah Wroten hopes to make more history in 2014

Leah Wroten celebrates her first feature win on July 2, 2013, in Independence. Last year, Leah Wroten became the first woman to win a feature race since 1971 at the Independence Motor Speedway, and came close to becoming the second woman to ever win a feature against male com...

Car show unites dirt track race drivers, fans

Although cold wet weather delayed this weekend's scheduled Frostbuster at the Benton County Speedway, the sun was shining Sunday afternoon when several of the drivers brought their machines to ...

Local bowlers compete in C.R. youth USBC tournament

2nd Place - Hammer Heads In March, some of our local league bowlers traveled to Cedar Rapids to participate in the USBC City tournament.  The bowlers compete against many bowlers from the Cedar Rapids area in many dif...

Jr/Sr Jets wrap up season

The Gutter Cleaners failed to live up to their name; they won the league championship. The Gutter Cleaners (Kyle Jorgensen, Bryce Meyers, Hunter Martin, Nick Schneider) failed to live up (or down?) to their name this season in the Jr/Sr. Jets Bowling League at Berry's Lanes. ...

Vikings learn 2014/15 football schedules; both seasons to begin vs. Benton

The Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings learned their 2014 and 2015 football schedules earlier this month when the Iowa High School Athletic Association announced them.  The Vikings will have five ...