Youth Sports Roundup

JWMS cross country team opens season

The James Williams Middle School cross country team opened its season at home Thursday, Sept. 7 with a seven-team invitational. The Hodag boys and girls finished fourth in their respective divisions. 

Seventh-grader Teagan Clark paced the JWMS girls, taking fourth overall as she covered the 3.2-kilometer course in 13 minutes, 30.5 seconds. 

Quinn Steinbrink was second across for the Hodags in 13th (14:48.4) followed by Noella Tulowitzky in 16th (15:14.8), Noelle Mayo in 23rd (15:06.5), Olivia Eades in 26th (15:25.2), Helen Beuning in 28th (15:45.6) and Harmony Gomez in 29th (15:46.2).

Michael Brunette paced the Hodag boys with an 11th-place finish (13:25.7). Wyatt Crowell took 15th (13:42.4), Max Cahee was 20th (14:35.0), Juan Diego Grage finished 22nd (14:36.5), Jack Congdon took 31st (15:26.5), Chasin Wallmow was 35th (15:58.5) and Ryder Clark was 48th (18:25.6).

The team ran again Tuesday in the three-team Gartzke Flowage Invite hosted by Antigo, sweeping both the boys’ and girls’ divisions. Clark (14:59.7) won the girls’ division of the race. Steinbrink finished third (15:25.4), Mayo was fifth (16:13.3), Tulowitzky was sixth (16:15.2), Gomez was seventh (16:16.8), Eades finished ninth (19:53.5) and Beuning was 10th (16:58.8) to round out the team’s top seven.

Brunette (14:21.9), Crowell (14:47.3), Cahee (16:06.8), Grage (16:20.8) and Wallmow (16:48.1) took spots 3-7 overall for the Hodag boys. Congdon finished ninth (17:10.2) and Clark was 12th (20:16.5).

    Harmony Gomez leads teammate Helen Beuning during the Rhinelander Invite middle school cross country race at Rhinelander High School Thursday, Sept. 7. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

    Wyatt Crowell runs during the during the Rhinelander Invite middle school cross country race Thursday, Sept. 7. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

    Rhinelander’s Michael Brunette races Northland Pines’ Royce Remme to the finish line of the Rhinelander Invite middle school cross country race at Rhinelander High School Thursday, Sept. 7. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

JV volleyball

    Sadie Edyvean bumps the ball for Rhinelander while teammate Taylor Dahlquist (8) looks on during a JV-2 level invite at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium Monday, Sept. 11. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Ava Rathbun serves during the JV match against Lakeland at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium Thursday, Sept. 7. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Kali Skubal bumps the ball during the JV-3 match against Lakeland at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium Thursday, Sept. 7. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)