Sports : Vikings win again; take first at Iowa Valley track meet

With just a few first place finishes, but many medalists, the Vinton-Shellsburg boys won another track meet on Tuesday, winning the Ruth Ahrens Invitational at Iowa Valley. The Vikings scored 128.5 points, one more than second-place Solon.

"It was another great win for the guys," said Coach Aric Chvala. "A lot of the time people think that you have to win every event to win a track meet but I guess we are proving that theory wrong -- we don't win many events but we we place in most of them. We got a lot of 5th and 6th place finishes that are huge when you are in a 1 point team race."

Despite less than ideal weather, the athletes competed strongly, says the coach.

"The conditions were not great so great so times were down but that didn't effect the way we competed and that says a lot about our guys. Hopefully we can keep this hot streak going," he says.