HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Rebels split games at Merrill Invite
Rhinelander lost a chance to clinch the Great Northern Legion Conference outright, getting no-hit by Medford's John McMurry in a 1-0 pitchers' duel Friday night during the Merrill Invitational at Athletic Park.
Odd team wins alumni baseball game
More than 20 players, representing four different decades of Rhinelander baseball returned to Stafford Field Saturday for the annual Hodag baseball alumni game. A back-and-forth contest was won by the team comprised of players mainly from odd-numbered graduating years, 6-5.
A July fourth
For the fourth straight year, the Rebels can call themselves champions of the Great Northern Legion Conference.
Lucky 7s
The Rhinelander Rebels scored seven runs in the fourth inning as they defeated Minocqua 11-4 in Great Northern Legion Conference play at Stafford Field.
New Northern Edge teammates get acquainted during summer ice
With all of the logistics of merging two teams into one worked out, the new-look Northern Edge is enjoying a brief opportunity to begin the process of piecing together what the on-ice product might look like this winter.
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Team Review: RHS Track & Field
The Rhinelander High School track team showed signs of improvement during 2018, but very few outside the program could have imagined what the Hodags did this season.
Schickert tosses one-hitter, Rebels beat Merrill 3-1
Bryce Schickert was one out away from a no-no Friday night, only to watch it go away on a Jake Bailey two-out single to right in the seventh. The Rhinelander lefty still put up a command performance as the Post 7 Rebels defeated Merrill 3-1 in a non-conference American Legion …
Hodags get taste of GNC competition during summer ice
The Rhinelander High School boys' hockey team has not had a lot of time on ice this summer, but it is making the most of its opportunity, which has coach M.J. Laggis excited about the upcoming season.
Something out of nothing
The Rebels were awarded a pair of forfeit wins in the Great Northern Legion Conference as Mosinee arrived at Stafford Field with only eight players. The teams decided to play two exhibition games, and Rhinelander won anyway, sweeping the twinbill 5-4 and 13-8.
Photo: JV soccer awards
The Rhinelander High School junior varsity girls' soccer team handed out its year-end awards during a banquet at the Cedric A. Vig Outdoor Classroom Monday, June 24.
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Rebels douse Cubs in rain-shortened win
Walker Hartman allowed two hits over six innings and the Rebels won a non-conference contest over the Cubs 8-0 at Stafford field when rain ended play for the night in the Rebels' half of the sixth.
GK Arneson headlines award winners for RHS girls' soccer team
Sophomore goalkeeper Kahlie Arneson was named RHS girls' soccer team's most valuable player and received the award during the Hodags' year-end banquet Monday at the Cedric A. Vig Outdoor Classroom.
Team Review: RHS baseball
Once again, the Rhinelander High School baseball team's most stubborn foe was Old Man Winter. His unwillingness to leave the Northwoods compacted the team's season into a one-month sprint for the second straight season.
Summer holds key to future for Hodag softball
The future of softball for Rhinelander and a couple of other GNC schools was on display this past weekend in the Northwoods Fastpitch youth softball tournament at the Northland Pines High School athletic complex.
PHOTOS: Northwoods 7-on-7 football
Rhinelander hosted round two of the Northwoods 7-on-7 Passing League Thursday, June 20 in front of Mike Webster Stadium. The Hodags defeated Tomahawk and Northland Pines on Thursday.
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