Youth Sports Roundup

JWMS swim team competes at home

The James Williams Middle School girls’ swim team won nine of 10 events on Tuesday at it took a home triangular meet with Horace Mann (Wausau East) and Antigo at the Heck Family Community Pool. 

Stella Beach and Sam Sherwood were each four-event winners for the Hodags. Sherwood won the 100-yard individual medley (1 minute, 13.76 seconds) and the 50 backstroke (34.21) while Stella Beach won the 50 butterfly (32.01) and the 50 breaststroke (35.12). Both were also on a pair of winning relays. 

Aubree Edwardson took the 50 freestyle for Rhinelander (30.08) while Lola Beach won the 100 freestyle (1:05.86). Reese Rossing, Stella Beach, Sherwood and Edwardson made up the winning combo in the 200 medley really (2:14.38); Edwardson, Charlotte LeClair, Stella Beach and Lola Beach took the 200 freestyle relay (1:58.11); Sherwood, Rossing, LeClair and Lola Beach made up the winning quartet in the 400 freestyle relay (4:38.25). 

Rossing added a runner-up swim in the 100 IM and was third in the 100 freestyle. Lola Beach was second in the 200, Edwardson was second in the backstroke and LeClair was second in the breaststroke. 

(Photos by Bob Mainhardt for the River News)

    Stella Beach competes for the JWMS girls’ swim team in the 50-yard butterfly during a meet at the Heck Family Community Pool Tuesday, Oct. 1.
 

    Eberlee Hopfensperger competes for the JWMS girls’ swim team in the 50-yard butterfly during a meet at the Heck Family Community Pool Tuesday, Oct. 1.
  

    Holly Novak competes for the JWMS girls’ swim team in the 100-yard freestyle during a meet at the Heck Family Community Pool Tuesday, Oct. 1.
  

JWMS girls take second at pair of meets

    The JWMS boys’ and girls’ cross country teams leave the starting line in the combined Three Lakes Invite at Big Stone Golf Course Thursday, Sept. 26. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

The JWMS girls’ cross country team took second last Thursday in the nine-team Three Lakes Invite and second on Tuesday in the Merrill Invite. 

Seventh-grader Jade Chiamulera led the Hodags last Thursday and got on the medal stand with a ninth-place run, covering the 2-mile course in 14 minutes, 16.9 seconds. Quinn Stinebrink was 12th for Rhinelander, Noelle Mayo was 13th, Charlotte MacIntyre was 16th, Olivia Eades finished 22nd, Marina Karwoski was 24th and Natalie Dellenbach took 26th. 

MacIntyre paced the Hodags Tuesday, finishing third overall (15:09.3) as JWMS finished eight points behind John Muir (Wausau West) for the win. Chiamulera finished ninth, Mayo took 11th, Noella Tulowitzky was 12th, Eades finished 18th, Helen Beuning was 21st and Harmony Gomez was 24th. 

The Hodag boys were sixth out of 10 teams in Three Lakes, led by sixth-grader Channing Waksmonski, who finished sixth overall (12:42.9). Casey Waksmonski was 17th, Jack Congdon was 32nd, Jacob Baumann was 34th, Espen McMahon was 36th, Max Cahee was 45th and Ryder Clark finished 47th. 

JWMS took third on Tuesday in Merrill, led by a third-place finishes from Channing Waksmonski (13:19.9). Casey Waksmonski was 15th, followed by McMahon in 16th, Congdon in 31st, Baumann in 40th, Cahee in 43rd and Clark in 49th.

8th Grade Football

The JWMS eighth-grade football team took on Northland Pines at Mike Webster Stadium Tuesday, Sept. 24. 

(Photos by Bob Mainhardt for the River News)

    Rhinelander’s Drezdyn Pitts (27), Jaxon West (2), Zachary Oclikas (44) combine to tackle a Northland Pines ball carrier.
  

    Blake Bauer carries the ball for the Hodags.
  

    Cade Goffe carries the ball on a sweep for the Hodags.
  

JV Volleyball

Rhinelander’s Abby Ferge sets the ball during a JV volleyball match against Mosinee at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium Tuesday, Sept. 24. Rhinelander dropped the match in straight sets.

    (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)