HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Team preview: RHS boys' basketball
Coach Derek Lemmens, entering his 11th season as head coach at his alma mater, is expecting better days for the Hodag hoops program. He is optimistic that the team, with six players back from last year's rotation, including three starters, will turn things around.
Team preview: RHS boys' swimming
The RHS boys made their season debut last night against Medford at the Heck Family Community Pool in a dual meet that concluded after deadline. Though the Hodags must replace three fast seniors off last year's squad, there are still plenty of high expectations for this year's team.
Team review: RHS football
The 2020 campaign will certainly be one Hodag fans remember for quite some time. Simply playing a full nine-game schedule was remarkable, considering all the delays and obstacles that stood in the way due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Team preview: RHS boys' hockey
With several pieces of last year's squad back, and bolstered depth courtesy of a number of players from a bantam squad that placed third at state a year ago, the RHS boys' hockey team has high expectations for the season.
Lady Hodags split Wausau road trip
The Hodags struggled against pressure last Tuesday as they fell on the road 63-35 at Wausau West. Things looked better on Friday night, however, as Rhinelander led buzzer to buzzer in a 67-48 win at Wausau East.
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Winter practice notebook
The Rhinelander High School boys' basketball team was back on the court for practice Monday in preparation for the upcoming season. The simple fact that the team was on the court was music to head coach Derek Lemmens' ears.
Team preview: Northern Edge girls' hockey
While most of last year's Northern Edge girls' hockey squad has returned for the 2020-21 campaign, with only 17 games currently on the schedule due to COVID-19 concerns, it will be difficult to match last year's 13-win total.
Team review: RHS boys' soccer
The Rhinelander High School boys' soccer team won only three games in the entire 2019 season. The 2020 Hodags matched that total by the end of the first week of the regular season and did not stop there.
Frozen in time
The Hodag defense stopped Mosinee quarterback Michal Dul on a two-point conversion attempt with 1:31 remaining and Rhinelander capped its most successful season since 1989 with a 27-26 victory over the Indians in Level 2 of the WIAA football culminating event Thursday night at Mike Webster Stadium.
Team preview: RHS girls' basketball
Rhinelander does return a pair of starters and nine players who saw varsity minutes from a squad that went 19-6 and reached the WIAA sectional semifinals last year, but it's going to take a collective effort to come close to the success the team has had over the past two …
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Team review: RHS cross country
A pandemic-shortened 2020 season proved to be as much a test of depth as it was endurance for the Rhinelander High School cross country team.
Winter season begins in earnest
Six Rhinelander High School winter sports teams started preparing for what, for most, will be a slightly condensed season. They are doing so as COVID-19 protocols involving sanitation, social distancing and face coverings from the fall sports season carry over into the winter.
DeNamur, Laggis named fastest harriers in virtual banquet
The Rhinelander High School cross country team recognized a unique and challenging season in the most 2020 way possible. The team held a virtual banquet Tuesday, Nov. 10 with coaches M.J. Laggis and Melissa Krueger running the show from Laggis' RHS classroom while the remainder of the team joined in …
Hodags rally past Lakeland 27-20
The "Heart Attack Hodags" struck again Friday night. Quinn Lamers scored on a four-yard quarterback draw with 1:59 remaining and Rhinelander completed a wild comeback, defeating the Thunderbirds 27-20 at Mike Webster Stadium.
PLANNED TO PERFECTION
Rhinelander took a leap into legend and lore on this fateful Friday night. The Hodags won four events, placed in the top four in five others, and captured the WIAA Division 2 state championship hosted by Waukesha South High School.
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