The Vinton-Shellsburg boys cross country team won the Iowa Mennonite Cross Country Invitational Monday night.  Back Row; Nolan Sagan, Wyatt Lyons, Parker Oltrogge, Jordan Evans.

     The Vinton-Shellsburg Alumni Football team raised $800 for Vinton-Shellsburg athletic programs during its July game at Center Point Urbana.

By Cheyne Reiter This past Friday night, the Union Knights hosted the 3A District 5 leading Maquoketa Cardinals for homecoming. Union came in at 4-1 (2-1) while Maquoketa was 4-1 (3-0), so a win for the Knights would have spoiled any chances that Maquoketa had of running the table in District 5.

     Down 10-0 halfway through the second quarter, the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings used several big offensive plays, a bruising running game by Gunner Tranel and three interceptions by Kelyn Rickels to rally to a 41-17 Homecoming win over Anamosa Friday night.

Everyday this week in PE there was a different activity. At the end of the week. the points were totaled and these are the champions from each

    VINTON-SHELLSBURG VIKING-VIKETTE HALL OF FAME     PLEASE JOIN US FOR A RECEPTION HONORING THESE 2011 VIKING-VIKETTE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES:   Don Faris - 1927 Jack Fry - 1950 Sylvia Froning Mundt - 1957 Thera Froning Cavin - 1962 Gabe Wyckoff - 1993 Bill Zenk - 2000   FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 9:00 P.

     The Vinton Shellsburg-Union Swim Team met last week to compete against Waterloo East. VSU won, 77-11.     Winners for VSU included the 160 medley team (Summer Stephenson, Mara Jessen, Jessie Dickerson, Kami Kirchner); Katie King in the 200 freestyle and 50 freestyle; Abby Getz in the 160 IM; Mara Jessen in the 60 freestyle; Karissa Davis in the 100 butterfly; Javannah Jensen in the 100 freesytle; the 160 freestyle relay (Karissa Davis, Abby Getz, Jessie Dickerson and Savannah Davis); Madison Elwick in the 100 backstroke; Abby Getz in the 100 breaststroke; and the 320 freestyle relay team of Kersten King, Savannah Jensen, Katie King and Madison Elwick.

          Danny Dvorak won the Sports Mod feature at the Benton County Speedway during the final night of the racing season.

Players of the Week for Union: Offensive Line - Chase Hansen Offensive Back - Jay Scheel Offensive Receiver - Brady Petersen Offensive Scout of week - Austin Dengler   Special teams - Logan Sallee   Defenive Line - Brad Gallup Defensive LBer - Cole Hinders Defensivel Back - Brenden Kuhn Defensive Scout of week - Jon Porter The Union Knights 4-1 (2-1) rebounded from a tough loss last week to DeWitt with a high scoring 56-27 win over the Anamosa Blue Raiders 2-3 (0-3).