HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Comeback bids not enough for Hodags against Waupaca, Oshkosh
The Rhinelander High School boys’ hockey team responded with fight following back-to-back blowout losses to Northland Pines and Tomahawk — two of the top teams in the Northwoods.
RHS Sports recap: Thursday, Dec. 11
Boys’ swim: Rhinelander 136, Medford 19 | Boys’ wrestling: Merrill 69, Rhinelander 12 | Boys’ hockey: Chequamegon/Phillips 7, Rhinelander 6
Team Preview: RHS Gymnastics
The Hodags showed promise two years ago with a good freshman class. Numbers improved last season, and scores did too, as the Hodags posted their best performances in eight years and were runners up in the GNC Small Division. All of that sets the stage for what the team hopes …
Flummoxed by zone, Hodag Hoops falls at Wittenberg
The Hodags struggled on the offensive end of the floor, shooting just 24% while committing 19 turnovers, in a 49-33 loss to Wittenberg-Birnamwood in a non-conference boys’ basketball contest Tuesday in Wittenberg.
Hodag football team hands out awards
The Rhinelander High School football team reflected on its 2025 season Sunday as it held its awards banquet at the high school’s John and Dori Brown Performing Arts Center.
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RHS boys’ wresters take 15th in opener at Antigo
The Rhinelander High School wrestling team had four wrestlers make the top flight in their weight classes as it came home 15th Saturday, Dec. 6 in the 18-team John Roberts Invite in Antigo.
Pines girls’ hockey co-op drops second game of the season
One period made all the difference in the Northland Pines girls’ hockey co-op’s 5-1 loss to the Cap City (Sun Prairie West co-op) Cougars on Friday, Dec. 5 in Rhinelander.
Rhinelander alum Fugle earns all-conference honors at Olivet Nazarene
Joe Fugle, a senior on the Olivet Nazarene University football team and member of the Rhinelander High School Class of 2022, recently earned second-team All-Midwest League honors at linebacker for the 2025 football season.
RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, Dec. 9
Boys’ basketball: Wittenberg-Birnamwood 49, Rhinelander 33 | Boys’ hockey: Waupaca 7, Rhinelander 3 | Boys’ swimming: Rhinelander at Stevens Point, ppd.
Hodag Hoops gets past Medford in GNC opener
The Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball team was pushed by a young Medford squad much of the way Friday night but, eventually, the Hodags’ experience prevailed as they began their quest for a third straight Great Northern Conference title.
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Offense struggles again for Lady Hodags in loss to Medford
Rhinelander shot just 27% from the field and was 6 of 29 from 3-point range Friday night as it fell to Medford 55-45 at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium.
State champion Hatchets reign over Hodag hockey
It took all of 14 seconds Thursday night for the Tomahawk Hatchets to show the Rhinelander High School boys’ hockey team they are every bit as good as last season — if not a little better.
RHS girls’ wrestlers take 17th in opener
The Rhinelander High School wrestling team had five girls take to the mat on Friday night as it came home 17th in the 30-team Red Robin Invite in Antigo.
WIAA Board of Control conduct December meeting
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control approved a fast-track conference realignment recommendation and other action items at its December meeting Friday, Dec. 5.
RHS Sports recap: Saturday, Dec. 6
Boys’ hockey: Oshkosh 5, Rhinelander 1 | Wrestling: Rhinelander 15th/18, John Roberts Invite
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