Youth Sports Roundup

Rhinelander Swim Club hosts meet

The Rhinelander Swim Club hosted a Northern Lakes Aquatic Conference meet at the Heck Family Community Pool Saturday, Jan. 20. Seven clubs were in attendance and the Hodags had more than 60 swimmers participate in the meet. 

    Kiley Pooch competes in the girls’ 11 and over 100-yard butterfly. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Channing Waksmonski hits the wall at the finish of the boys’ 11 and over 50-yard freestyle. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Griffin Rady competes in the boys’ 9-10 500-yard freestyle. (Bob mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Mariah Congdon competes in the girls’ 10 and under 50-yard breaststroke. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

Middle school wrestling

The James Williams Middle School wrestling team hosted a six-team Central Wisconsin Wrestling Conference meet at the JWMS gymnasium Monday, Jan. 22. 

    Rhinelander’s Trevor Denton fights for control against John Muir’s Nathan Schroeder in a 101-103 pound match. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Rhinelander’s Noah Leisure puts Antigo’s Summer Thunder in a headlock and looks for a pin in a 130-131 pound match. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Rhinelander’s Keyan Karpf restarts on top against Medford’s Thomas Austin in a 90-92 pound match. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

    Rhinelander’s Max Miljevich looks to lift Three Lakes’ Ethan Plautz in a 73-78 pound match. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
  

RBA 6th graders win again

The Rhinelander Basketball Association’s sixth-grade boys’ A team took first at the Merrill tournament Saturday, Jan. 20, going 3-0 on the day. The Hodags beat Wausau East 58-31, Marshfield 54-12 and Stevens Point Pacelli 43-25. The team is now 7-0 on the season. Pictured front row, from left to right, are Boston Hopfensperger, Mason Hauser and Coltyn Anderson. In the back row are coach Jason Kremer, Hans Sommer, Connor Clark, Jaxson Kremer, Finn Brown, coach Ted Sommer, Carter Bell and coach Josh Clark.  

    (Submitted photo)  

Middle School Nordic competes in Iola

The Hodag Nordic Middle School team competed in the freestyle portion of the Iola Invite Saturday, Jan. 20 at Iola Winter Sports Club. The Hodag boys finished ninth out of 10 complete teams and the Hodag girls finished 10th out of 10. 

Aaron Calhoun led the Hodag boys’ taking 27th overall, covering a 3-kilometer course in 12 minutes, 33 seconds. Samuel Loomis finished 46th (14:08), Douglas Hartmann was 48th (14:14), Jacob McFarland was 59th (15:43), Alexander Rusch was 62nd (16:17) and Korbin Skubal finished 63rd (16:20).

Pearl Calhoun led the Hodag girls. She was 30th overall with a time of 14:17. Kelsie Skubal was 40th (14:46), Noelle Mayo was 44th (15:12) and Scarlet Hartmann finished 61st (17:56).

    Douglas Hartmann heads to the finish of the Iola Invite middle school boys’ race Saturday, Jan. 20. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

    Pearl Calhoun skates to the finish of the Iola Invite middle school girls’ race Saturday, Jan. 20. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

Middle school Alpine opens season

The Rhinelander/Northland Pines middle school Alpine ski and snowboard team opened its season with a meet at Christie Mountain in Bruce Monday, Jan. 22.

In boys’ skiing, Henry Schmitz had three top-five runs and finished fifth overall on the day. Michael Brunette was eight, Calvin Margelofsky was 11th and Jacob McFarland was 13th. Jessica Linn was the runner-up overall in girls’ skiing. She placed in the top three in all of her runs, including a second-place showing in slalom. Riley Butler finished seventh. 

Kamden Kostrova and Carter Shimkus finished 1-2 for the Hodags in boys’ snowboarding.