HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
A team and its rooster
He's white, he's green and he looks like he's been ripped straight from a box of Corn Flakes. He's also perhaps the most galvanizing figure on this year's WIAA state-bound Rhinelander High School boys' cross country team.
Fugle, Schneider share Hodag gridders' Mathisson Award
Joe Fugle and Joe Schneider shared the Maurice "Moose" Mathisson Award given to the team's most outstanding senior. Fugle was also named the team's lineman of the year, while the team also honored Cole Lehman and AJ Bergman during an awards banquet at Cabaret Cove.
RNC team, Lester, Belanger crowned state mountain biking champions
The Hodags put a bow on a Wisconsin High School Cycling League Division 2 state championship on Sunday, taking first place in the league's 2021 final at Trek Trails in Waterloo.
STATEMENT RACE
Each one of Rhinelander's top five runners set personal-best times Saturday, and all five placed inside the top 20, as the Hodags punched their first team ticket to state since 1997 in a Division 2 sectional hosted by Oconto Falls at The Patriot Golf Club.
Hodags denied by Baraboo on last-minute stop
Ultimately the record will show that the Rhinelander High School football team was nine yards and seven points shy of advancing in the WIAA Division 2 playoffs. In reality, the margin was much closer than that.
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RHS smashes records en route to GNC swim title
The Hodags put an exclamation point on their third straight conference title, winning 10 events on their way to the GNC championship at the Heck Family Community Pool. Rhinelander also set six conference records and four records in its home pool on Friday while Malia Francis nabbed a pair of …
Hodag girls take 9th at sectionals
An injury-plagued season with a young squad came to an end Saturday for the Rhinelander High School girls' cross country team. The Hodags placed four runners in the top 50 and finished ninth out of 10 qualifying teams at a WIAA Division 2 sectional at The Patriot Golf Club.
Something to prove
Despite an 8-1 record and the No. 8 ranking in the WisSports.net D3 coaches poll, the Hodags find themselves on the road at 7-2 Baraboo tonight to start the WIAA tournament.
Strong bond gives Hodag harriers shot at state meet
The members of the team have formed a bond over the last few years that has already brought them some history and has them on the brink of more entering tomorrow's WIAA Division 2 sectional hosted by Oconto Falls at Patriot Golf Club in Abrams.
Hodag swimmers seek to claim third straight GNC crown tonight at home
The Hodags are the overwhelming favorites to clinch a third straight Great Northern Conference championship tonight when the conference meet takes place. Furthermore, the Hodags have the opportunity to secure that title at home in the Heck Family Community Pool.
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Not good enough?
The Rhinelander High School football team did everything in its power to earn a home playoff game. The WIAA, and its computers, saw it differently.
Run to greatness
Cal Laggis led six Rhinelander finishers in the top 16 overall as the Hodags won the Great Northern Conference boys' cross country championship at Minocqua Winter Park. Rhinelander finished 18 points ahead of Medford for the conference title - the team's first since its state championship season in 1987.
Hodag soccer downs Antigo 4-0 in regular season finale
The Rhinelander High School boys' soccer team's 2021 campaign played out in miniature Thursday night in the regular season finale against Antigo. The Hodags are hoping when they start the WIAA playoffs, their form more closely resembles the second half than the first.
Johnson falls in final high school tennis match
Rhinelander High School's Annika Johnson was able to finish her high school tennis career Thursday on the state's biggest stage.
Burton Reeder returns to cheer on RHS
The holder of the two longest-standing records in Rhinelander High School swimming history returned home Tuesday night and saw her marks survive for at least a little while longer.
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