SPORTS
RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, April 7
Girls’ soccer: Rhinelander 6, Merrill 0 | Softball: Tomahawk at Rhinelander, ppd. | Baseball: Rhinelander at Tomahawk, ppd.
Team preview: RHS baseball
After tying for second in the Great Northern Conference and regional final appearance last spring, the Rhinelander High School baseball team looks to utilize returning talent to make a deep run into the playoffs this year.
Amid ice, Hodag soccer opens with win
Mother Nature was not very cooperative with the Rhinelander High School girls’ soccer team late last week, but the Hodags still managed to play one of their three scheduled games to open the season.
Team preview: RHS boys’ tennis
The Rhinelander High School boys’ tennis team enters the 2026 season with a chance to make history. The last time the Hodags didn’t lift the GNC championship trophy was all the way back in 2013. Though COVID interrupted the Hodags’ run in 2020, Rhinelander has won 11 straight Great Northern …
Team review: Northland Pines co-op girls’ hockey
A young Northland Pines girls’ hockey co-op saved its best for last in a season full of learning and growth.
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Aspirus to host summit addressing mental health in sports
Aspirus Health will host “Beyond the Game: A Mental Health Summit Focused on Well-Being in Sports,” a free, one-day event centered on the mental and emotional demands athletes face and how to better support them.
RHS Sports recap: Saturday, April 4
Track & Field: RHS girls 53rd, boys DNP, WISTCA Indoor State Championships | Track & Field: Rhinelander N/A, Point Distance Carnival | Baseball: Rhinelander at Appleton East Triangular, ccd.
Hodag fastpitch outslugs Lakeland in GNC opener
The Rhinelander High School softball team carried its momentum, and timely hitting, from last weekend’s championship at the Danny Mac Softball Classic into Tuesday’s Great Northern Conference opener.
Rhinelander cuts down the Loggers for first place at Danny Mac
The Rhinelander High School softball team served notice over the weekend that 2026 could be a rebound season for the squad, after several years below .500.
Team preview: RHS girls’ soccer
Though Rhinelander graduates three all-conference players from last year's squad, and has no seniors on the varsity roster, coach Nathan Bates still said he exudes confidence that this could be the year the Hodags finally put everything together and make a deep playoff run.
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Notebook: Hodag tennis team sweating out late-week forecast
It’s not every year that the Rhinelander High School tennis courts are virtually clear of snow by the time the first practice rolls around for the Hodag boys’ tennis team.
Hodag track competes in Merrill, eyes weekend events
The Rhinelander High School track team took a lighter than normal crew to Merrill on Tuesday, placing fourth in both the boys’ and girls’ divisions of the five-team Bluejay Indoor Invite.
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Rhinelander Wrestling Club scores two state place winners | Pinewood Golf Club announces league meeting dates | Inshalla Men’s Senior Golf League to meet April 9 | Retzlaff takes 11th at Martinsville
RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, March 31
Softball: Rhinelander 10, Lakeland 8 | Track: RHS boys’ 4th/5, RHS girls 4th/5, Merrill Invite
Track teams take runner-up at Pines
The Hodag boys’ and girls’ squads — despite limiting or resting a number of key athletes — still finished second in the nine-team Northland Pines Indoor meet in Eagle River.
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