HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
End of the road
In the final nine minutes Saturday night against Menomonie if anything could go wrong for the Hodags, it did — whether it was foul disparity, problems protecting the basketball or stopping the Mustangs top player.
Hodag gymnasts 10th at state
Rhinelander finished with a 123.0334 in Friday’s team competition, a couple of points behind sectional champion Waupun. On Saturday, junior Emeline Hintz finished 23rd in the all-around and added an impressive 12th-place finish on the balance beam. Fellow junior Alexis Smith was 19th on the vault and freshman Marsadies Williams …
Lady Hodags run out of March magic
Leah Nordin scored 26 points, collected 12 rebounds and converted a key three-point play in the final minute as Shawano snuck past Rhinelander 50-47 Thursday, March 5 win a Division 2 sectional semifinal at Sheldon Fieldhouse.
Hodag swimmers reflect on successful season
The Rhinelander High School boys’ swim team put a bow on its 2025-26 season with its season-ending banquet Tuesday, March 3. Even though the Hodags had a young squad, devoid of any seniors, the season continued a long run of dominance for the program in the northern half of the …
Five Hodag bowlers finish in the money at D9 singles tournament
Five Rhinelander Area Youth Bowling Club members placed in the top six of their respective flights and earned money contributed to their bowling scholarship accounts during the Wisconsin High School Bowling Club’s District 9 singles tournament held Feb. 27 to March 1 at Nick’s Hodag Lanes in Rhinelander.
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RHS Sports recap: Saturday, March 7
Boys’ basketball: Menomonie 65, Rhinelander 51 | Gymnastics: Rhinelander at WIAA D2 State Meet
RHS Sports recap: Friday, March 6
Boys’ basketball: Rhinelander 64, Wausau East 52 | Gymnastics: Rhinelander 10th/10, WIAA D2 State Meet
Hodag Hoops begins tourney run tonight
For the second year in a row, the Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball team enters the WIAA tournament as a No. 2 seed in its half sectional as it looks to get back to the second weekend of the playoffs for the first time since 2022.
Building blocks for the future
The Rhinelander High School gymnastics team might struggle to be in team or individual podium contention today and tomorrow during the WIAA state meet in Wisconsin Rapids, but that’s not the point for this young group of Hodags.
All-GNC: Aubryn Clark named girls’ hoops POTY
Rhinelander High School junior Aubryn Clark was not the Great Northern Conference’s leading scorer, nor did she play on the conference championship team, but a strong argument could be made she was the one player in the conference that drew the most attention from opposing defenses. That fact helped her …
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THE LONG ROAD TO SUCCESS
Lexi Beran scored off an offensive rebound with 2:26 remaining, and the Hodags erased an 11-point second half deficit to defeat Marinette 47-43 Saturday night, winning the team’s first WIAA regional title since 2020 in the process.
Sectional celebration
The Hodags picked the perfect time to have their best performance in more than a decade. Rhinelander scored 127.125 points to finish second at a WIAA Division 2 sectional meet in Antigo. That was good enough to earn Rhinelander a spot in the team portion of the WIAA state meet …
THRILLING THREE-PEAT
Devon Feck scored a career-high 33 points, Abe Gretzinger added 19 points and 14 rebounds and Tommy Eades scored four of his six points in double overtime as the Hodags rallied past Mosinee 75-73 on the road Friday night.
Eagles co-op falls one game short of state
One game away from the state tournament, the Northland Pines girls’ hockey co-op ran out of magic.
Lindner drops both matches at state wrestling tourney
The season ended for Rhinelander High School junior Cassidy Lindner Friday morning following her second loss at the WIAA state girls’ wrestling tournament at the Kohl Center in Madison.
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