RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, Jan. 28

Boys’ basketball: Rhinelander 63, Wisconsin Rapids 45

The Rhineladner High School boys’ basketball team never trailed Tuesday night as it picked up a 63-45 victory on the road in non-conference play at Wisconsin Rapids. 

The Hodags led by as many as nine points in the first half before the Raiders made a late run to cut the lead to 29-23 at the break. Rapids got within three early in the second half before Rhinelander seized control with a 9-1 run.

Jatyn Barkus paced the Hodags with 20 points, Evan Shoeder added 14 and Truman Lamers chipped in 11. Brody Gilbertson lead Rapids with 15 points. 

Rhinelander (10-4, 5-2 Great Northern) hosts Northland Pines on Friday.

Girls’ basketball: Wis. Rapids Assumption 59, Rhinelander 29

The Rhinelander High School girls’ basketball team fell to the No. 2 team in Division 5, Wisconsin Rapids Assumption 59-29 on the road Tuesday night. 

The Hodags trailed 35-11 at halftime in the contest and the Royals slowly added to the lead in the second half. 

Lexi Beran led the Hodags with nine points while Kelsey Winter had seven. Anna Schooley and Jordyn Jaglinski scored 10 each to lead Assumption.

Rhinelander (10-7, 5-3 Great Northern) travels to Northland Pines on Friday.

Boys’ swimming: Rhinelander 12, Antigo 0, forfeit

The Rhinelander High School boys’ swim team’s GNC dual meet at Antigo was postponed Tuesday due to a lack of healthy swimmers for the Antigo squad. Rhinelander AD Brian Paulson told the River News that the dual, which was supposed to be a make-up of a Dec. 19 snow out, will go down as a forfeit victory for the Hodags.

That puts Rhinelander at 5-0 in the GNC and in sole possession of first place in the conference heading into the Great Northern Conference championships in Rhinelander, Feb. 7. That is Rhinelander’s next scheduled competition.

Alpine skiing: RHS/NPHS boys 2nd/5, girls 2nd/4 NC Meet No. 4

Both the RHS/Northland Pines boys’ and girls’ ski teams took home second Tuesday in the fourth Northern Conference meet of the season at Mt. Ashwabay. The Hodag boys defeated Ashwabay by 26 points for the runner-up spot while the Hodag girls held off Ashwabay by two markers 

Ben Olson scored his best finish of the year, taking second place on the day. Wyler Koput was sixth, Jason Linn was 10th, Holden Schmitz was 21st, Eli Repenshek was 22nd, Henry Schmitz was 25th and Robert Guolee finished 26th.

On the girls’ side, Jessica Linn finished sixth, Callie Hoerchler was 10th, Lyndsey Hoerchler was 12th, Eliana Conrad was 13th, Aila Bergman was 14th, Lucy Eddy was 17th and Karlie Yunkers was 26th.

In snowboarding, Marshal Durkee, Kamden Kostrova and Soren Dumar all won an event as they went 1-2-3 overall on the day. Sydney Sarkauskas had a clean sweep of the races as she placed first in the girls' division.

The Hodags will be back in action Monday in a state championship scrimmage at Mt. La Crosse.

Full reports will be published in Friday’s River News