Youth Sports Roundup

JV football

The Rhinelander High School JV football team fell to Tomahawk 24-14 Monday, Sept. 23 at Mike Webster Stadium. Quarterback Abe Gretzinger hit Marshal Durkee for a touchdown to pull the Hodags within two late in the fourth quarter, but the Hatchets tacked on the clinching touchdown after recovering an onside kick.

Photos by Bob Mainhardt for the River News

    Kaleb Zwaard catches a two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter for the Hodags.
  

    Weston Kibler returns a punt for the Hodags.
  

JV3 volleyball

Rhinelander faced Lakeland as part of a JV3 volleyball invitational at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium Monday, Sept. 23. 

Photos by Bob Mainhardt for the River News

    Eliza Rudis tips the ball at the net for the Hodags.
  

    Erykah Robinson serves for the Hodags.
  

JV cross country

The Rhinelander High School cross country team fielded some junior varsity entries in the Bill Smiley Invitational in Wausau Saturday, Sept. 21. Wendy Fronk led the Hodag girls taking 91st out of 197 runners in Division 1 with a time of 26 minutes, 26.3 seconds. Averie West was 102nd (26:42.6) and Grace Cornelius was 136th (28:21.2). Hank Kowieski led the Hodag boys in 92nd out of 267 runners (23:27.7). Chasin Wallmow was 187th (23:27.7). 

    Grace Cornelius runs with a pack of runners near the end of the Division 1 JV girls’ race. (Jeremy Mayo/River News)
  

JWMS girls’ cross country 2nd at GNC meet

The James Williams Middle School girls’ cross country team was the runner-up Monday, Sept. 23 during the Great Northern Conference middle school meet at Antigo High School.

The Hodag girls used a pack of runners just outside the top 10 to edge Mosinee by six points for second place. Eighth-grader Noelle Mayo paced the Hodags in 13th place out of a field of 74 runners, covering the 3,200-meter course in 14 minutes, 13.2 seconds. Seventh-grader Jade Chiamulera was close behind in 14th (14:14.0), Quinn Stinebrink was 17th (14:18.8), Charlotte MacIntyre was 19th (14:41.9) and Helen Beuning was 24th (15:15.0).

The Hodag boys finished sixth, but had a top-10 medalist in sixth-grader Channing Waksmonski, who came home fourth overall at 12:15.2. Casey Waksmonski finished 22nd (14:07.4), followed by Espen McMahon (32nd, 15:10.2), Jacob Baumann (39th, 15:43.4) and Jack Congdon (40th, 15:47.4). 

The previous Thursday, the Hodags were at Horace Mann Middle School in Wausau for the Junior Smiley Invitational. The JWMS girls were seventh of 10 teams in Division 1 while the Hodag boys took eighth out of 10. 

Mayo finished 23th in the D1 race to lead the Hodag girls (15:07.4). She was followed by Chiamulera in 28th, Stinebrink in 29th, MacIntyre in 33rd and Beuning in 70th. Channing Waksmonski (15th, 12:28.2) paced the Hodag boys. Casey Waksmonski was 60th, Max Cahee was 78th, McMahon was 79th and Baumann was 84th to round out the Hodag top five. 

    Jacob Baumann (217) and Jack Congdon (283) run together in the opening mile of the GNC middle school boys’ cross country race in Antigo Monday, Sept. 23.
  

    Lilly Paszek leads teammate Harmony Gomez near the finish of the GNC middle school girls’ cross country race in Antigo Monday, Sept. 23.
  

JWMS volleyball

Photos by Bob Mainhardt for the River News

    Aleigha Marten bumps the ball for the seventh-grade team during a match against Medford Monday, Sept. 16 at the JWMS gym.
  

    Evelyn Juedes serves the ball for the eighth-grade team during a match against Antigo Monday, Sept. 23 at the JWMS gym.
  

JWMS football

The JWMS seventh- and eighth- grade football teams took on Lakeland at Mike Webster Stadium Tuesday, Sept. 17. PICTURED: Connor Clark scrambles with the ball late in the seventh-grade game. 

Photos by Bob Mainhardt for the River News

    Dylan Brownell (43) and Jaxon West (2) chase down a Lakeland ball carrier in the eighth-grade game.
  

    Connor Clark scrambles with the ball late in the seventh-grade game.