RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, May 6

Baseball: Rhinelander 3, Antigo 1

The Rhinelander High School baseball team kept Antigo off the board until the seventh inning as it snapped a five-game losing skid with a 3-1 victory over the Robins Tuesday at Stafford Field. 

The Hodags scored single runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings and that was enough run support for Jackson Waydick, who struck out eight batters over six scoreless innings to earn the win. Conner Rappley worked around a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh to earn the save. 

Dylan Vanderbunt drove in two runs for the Hodags, Abe Gretzinger added an RBI and Sawyer Bishop collected two hits at the plate. Rhinelander edged Antigo in the hit column, 7-6. 

The Hodags (6-7, 3-4 Great Northern) travel to Eagle River Friday to take on Northland Pines. 

Softball: Antigo 7-16, Rhinelander 0-2

The Rhinelander High School softball team lost a doubleheader at Antigo 7-0 and 16-2 on Tuesday.

Antigo’s Bethany Lewis faced one batter over the minimum in Game 1. Lucy Lindner’s one-out single in the fourth broke up Lewis’s no-hit and perfect game bids. Aleece Johnson was tagged for four runs on four hits in just one-third of an inning in the loss for Rhinelander. Kendall Vanney went the rest of the way, allowing three runs on six hits over 5 2/3 innings. 

The Hodags got single runs in the second and third innings of Game 2, but couldn’t overcome a six-run first inning for the Robins and a five-run fourth inning. Kalyn Miller had the Hodags’ only hit of Game 2. Chase Verbist recorded an RBI groundout in the second inning and Vanney scored on a wild pitch in the third. Vanney took the loss, allowing seven runs on six hits over an inning-plus of work.

Rhinelander (3-10, 0-8 Great Northern) takes on Northland Pines in Eagle River on Wednesday. 

Boys’ tennis: Stevens Point 5, Rhinelander 2

The RHS boys’ tennis team dropped a non-conference match at Stevens Point 5-2 on Tuesday. 

Van Tulowitzky and Hart Hokens scored match tiebreaker win for the Hodags at No. 3 doubles while Aiden Lueder picked up a straight-set win at No. 4 singles.

Rhinelander (8-9, 4-0 Great Northern) will be back in Stevens Point Thursday to face Pacelli in GNC play.

Golf: Rhinelander T3rd/7, GNC Meet No. 3

The RHS golf team shot 343 Tuesday at it tied with Northland Pines for third in the third leg of the Great Northern Conference golf meet at Bass Lake Golf Club in Deerbrook. 

Sam Schoppe was Rhinelander’s low player on Tuesday. His 6-over round of 77 was good enough for third place overall on the day. Hank Kowieski missed out on conference points by a stroke, taking 11th with an 86. Blake Petroff shot 87. Grant Gremban and Brody Kowieski each shot 93s. 

The Hodags will be back in action Friday in the Northland Pines Invite at St. Germain Golf Course.

Track: RHS boys 3rd/10, girls 4th/12, Lakeland Invite

The Hodag boys’ track team won three events and took third Tuesday at the Lakeland Invitational in Minocqua while the Hodag girls won twice and finished fourth in a 12-team field. 

Greyson Gremban won the 1,600 meters for the Hodag boys, Avrom Barr took the 3,200 and Logan Schwinger was victorious in the shot put. 

Macy Myers broke her school record in the pole vault once again, clearing 10 feet, 10 inches Tuesday to comfortably win that event. Rhinelander added a win in the 4x100 relay with Shyanne Hueckstaedt, Violet Biolo, Ellie Cummings and Macy Treder. 

Rhinelander is back in action Friday at the Otto Bacher Invitational in Merrill.

Full reports will be published in Friday’s River News.