Youth Sports Roundup

Breaking the Ice

The Rhinelander Ice Association hosted more than 180 peewee (U12) and squirt (U10) level players for the third annual IceBreaker Tournament Oct. 6-8. Players from around the state and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan were divided into teams for the 5-on-5 tournament. Pictured, two teams square off in a Peewee-level game Sunday, Oct. 8. The tournament continues this weekend with mite (U8) and bantam (U14) level players playing Friday through Sunday. 

    (Bob Mainhardt for the River News) 

Subvarsity football

The Rhinelander High School JV and JV2 football teams took on Merrill at Mike Webster Stadium in the past week. The Hodag JVs defeated the Bluejays 22-14 on Monday night, while the JV2s fell to Merrill 25-8 on Oct. 5.

    Austin Sparling (34) helps to record a tackle for loss for the Hodag defense during Monday’s JV game. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Myles Eagleson rushes for a touchdown during Monday’s JV game. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Marshall Durkee looks for running room around the edge during last Thursday’s JV2 game. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Damian Burkeland returns a kick during last Thursday’s JV2 game. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

JWMS cross country closes out season

    Michael Brunette races toward the front of the field at the start of a middle school cross country race in Tomahawk Thursday, Oct. 5. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

The James Williams Middle School cross country team closed out its 2023 season with three races over eight days, wrapping up on Tuesday. 

The JWMS girls were third at both the Northland Pines Invite Oct. 3 in Eagle River and the Tomahawk Invite Oct. 5 before taking seventh of 11 at the Wisconsin Valley Conference meet Tuesday in Plover. The Hodag boys were fifth at Northland Pines and Tomahawk, and eighth of 11 in Plover.

    Natalie Dellenbach leads a pack of runners in the final half mile of a middle school cross country race in Tomahawk Thursday, Oct. 5. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

Teagan Clark (fourth), Noella Tulowitzky (10th), Quinn Stinebrink (13th), Harmony Gomez (18th) and Olivia Eades (22nd) made up the Hodag girls’ top five in Eagle River. Clark (fourth), Tulowitzky (seventh), Stinebrink (13th), Gomez (20th) and Noelle Mayo (21st) were the top five in Tomahawk. Clark (13th), Tulowitzky (32nd), Stinebrink (53rd), Eades (60th) and Gomez (70th) were the top five in Plover.

Michael Brunette (11th), Max Cahee (26th), Chasin Wallmow (29th), Juan Diego Grage (31st) and Wyatt Crowell (42nd) were the top five for the JWMS boys in Eagle River. Brunette (ninth), Crowell (17th), Grage (27th), Wallmow (29th) and Cahee (30th) paced the Hodags in Tomahawk.  Brunette (28th), Crowell (79th), Cahee (90th), Grage (121st) and Jack Congdon (134th) were the Hodags’ top five in Plover.