May 6, 2015 at 3:30 p.m.
RHS students compete at FICB state finals
RHS students compete at FICB state finals
The top 14 regional winners from around the state competed to determine the overall state champion. There were 142 total teams in the FICB this year and Rhinelander High School had two teams make it all the way to the elite eight. This is the first time Rhinelander High School qualified two teams to compete at the statewide finals.
The first round of play was for seeding purposes and Rhinelander earned a No. 5 seed with the team of Mike Anderson, Brendan McGuire, Scott Sedlacek, and Megan Haug. The team of Riley Aschenbrenner, Brianna Gilbert, Morgan Blaser, and Max Holperin secured the No. 10 seed out of the field of 14. The fifth-seeded team easily defeated Oshkosh North in the first round of competition and the 10th seeded team came from behind in a nail-biter to beat a better seeded team from Stanley-Boyd on the very last question.
Rhinelander's fifth-seeded team was defeated in the quarterfinals by a team from Monroe which eventually placed third overall. The 10th-seeded team from Rhinelander had another very close match that also came down to the last question; however, this time they came up short as they were defeated by the eventual overall statewide champion, Neenah High School. A team from D.C. Everest was the statewide runner-up this year and a team from Madison LaFollette finished in fourth place.
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