Sports : Vikings fall to CPU in a 6-0 heartbreaker

Curtis Erickson (1) battles for yardage.

Oh so close!

Kale Schulte (3) tries a 46--yard field goal.

Missed holind penalty.

Benett Rickels picks up some yardage.

Gabe Sanders (4) tries to get away.

Kaden Kingsbury (9) goes after the runner.

VINTON - The Vinton-Shellsburg Viking football team (0-1) took on the Center Point-Urbana Stormin' Pointers (1-0) at the Karr Athletic Complex on Aug. 27 and were defeated 6-0, although the game was scoreless at the halftime break.

CPU scored their lone TD of the game with 7:29 to go in the third quarter, set up on a missed holding call. The Vikings marched the length of the field in the unsuing drive, but Curtis Erickson was stopped twice at the one-foot line and V-S gave up the ball on downs. They would get no closer.

The Vikings gained 176 yards and 168 on the ground, along eight through the air. V-S travels to Oelwein Friday night to take on the Huskies.