HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Team review: RHS boys’ hockey
The Hodags won three of their final four games to close out the regular season. Entering the playoffs as a No. 8 seed, Rhinelander gave eventual state qualifier Tomahawk a scare before falling 5-3.
Spring practice notebook
The final group of spring sports to begin practice for the upcoming season did so on Monday, though one wouldn’t have been able to tell by looking outside.
Hodag softball goes winless in opening tourney
It was a trial by fire this past weekend for the Rhinelander High School softball team. A squad rebuilding after losing a number of key pieces from last season ran into some tough competition from the start, dropping all three games it played in the Danny Mac Classic at the …
Team review: RHS boys’ basketball
Thanks to a couple of key upsets and a gritty finish to the year, the RHS boys' basketball team ended up cutting down the nets at the end of the regular season. Rhinelander knocked off Medford in a game that decided who was going to share the conference crown with …
Belanger, Denis share hockey’s Al Baker, MVP awards
Joey Belanger and Gavin Denis shared both the RHS boys' hockey team’s Most Valuable Player award and the Alfred O. Baker award given to the team’s most outstanding senior during the team’s banquet last Tuesday in the RHS commons.
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Team preview: RHS girls’ soccer
Though Rhinelander graduated the GNC’s top scorer from last year, with five all-conference players returning and a talented incoming freshman class, coach Nathan Bates and the Hodags believe this can be the year they finally get past Lakeland and back to the top of the GNC.
RHS Sports recap: Saturday, March 23
Softball: Rhinelander 0-3 Danny Mac Invite
Team preview: RHS softball
The Rhinelander High School softball team opens its 2024 season today and tomorrow with three games inside the Hodag Dome during the Danny Mac Softball Classic. The hope for first-year coaches Ali Bender and Sadie Adamski is how the squad looks on the final day of the season is different …
Spring practice notebook
There was not a single flake of snow on Stafford Field Monday as the RHS baseball team began its 2024 season. While there’s a little maintenance work to be done — and winter may have one final push — before the Hodags play on their home field, the fact that …
Team Review: Northland Pines co-op girls’ hockey
Northland Pines won just one game a year ago. This season, with the addition of the Northern Edge girls’ hockey co-op, Pines increased its win total to eight.
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RHS track finishes mid-pack in Ashland
Junior Truman Lamers won the triple jump and high jump as the Hodag boys scored a fourth-place finish, while sophomore Aila Bergman swept the 60- and 200-meter hurdles to help the Hodag girls nab fifth in the eight-team Oredocker Large School Indoor Invite in Ashland.
RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, March 19
Track & Field: RHS boys’ 4th/8, girls 5th/8, Ashland Invite
Team review: RHS wrestling
The Rhinelander High School wrestling team is still looking to recapture the success it had back in the mid 2010s. It’s been a slow process for third-year head coach Scottie Arneson, but the Hodags found ways to be more competitive this season.
Team review: RHS/NPHS Alpine Ski & Snowboard
During this month’s season-ending banquet, coach Rod Olson was quick to note that this year’s members of the Rhinelander/Northland Pines Alpine ski team may have been “the best group of humans that I’ve ever coached,” he also admitted the best part of the season may be that it’s over.
Hodag track takes third in season opener
The Rhinelander High School track team got its first taste of competition on Thursday, bringing a handful of athletes to the Wisconsin Rapids Indoor Invite.
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