SPORTS
Team review: RHS/NPHS Alpine skiing
There was plenty of success for the Rhinelander/Northland Pines Alpine ski team during the 2025 season. However, the most exciting thing for the Hodags might not be what they accomplished this year, rather the potential the squad has moving forward.
Hodag Nordic holds banquet
The Hodag Nordic ski team closed out its 2024-25 season with a banquet last Tuesday at the Cedric A. Vig Outdoor Classroom. The team presented varsity letters to six of its eight high school athletes as part of the program.
WIAA moves Hodags’ regional final game to Monday night
The WIAA postponed Saturday’s scheduled Division 2 boys’ basketball regional final game between Rhinelander and New Richmond to Monday night at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium. The move was made to avoid a situation where New Richmond would have played games on three consecutive nights.
RHS Sports recap: Friday, March 7
Boys’ basketball: Rhinelander 43, Rice Lake 42 ** REGIONAL FINAL VS. NEW RICHMOND RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY **
Time for the madness
The Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball team saw last year’s conference championship season end in the regional semifinal round of the WIAA tournament at the hands of the Rice Lake Warriors. Following another conference title, the Hodags are looking to avoid the same fate tonight, and this time, will have …
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Hodag swim team hands out awards
Given all the honors and accolades bestowed on the WIAA Division 2 state runner-up Rhinelander High School boys’ swim team during the season, coach Jenny Heck decided to keep the awards low-key Monday with the team convened one final time for the 2024-25 season.
RIA Peewee As to vie for state title this weekend in Waupun
After solid runs at state the last couple of years, the Rhinelander Ice Association’s (RIA) Peewee A hockey team is gunning for more this weekend when it travels to Waupun for the WAHA Class 3A state tournament.
Youth Sports Roundup
RSC places 2nd at CWSC championship | Youth wrestling | Peewee hockey vs. Verona
Sports Digest
Beschta to join WIAA as assistant director
HALL YEAH!
The Hodags held the Medford to 33% from the field and held on down the stretch to win 51-43 at Raider Hall, securing the team’s second straight Great Northern Conference title.
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Hodag gymnasts finish 5th at sectionals
The Hodag posted a score of 119.2 points, good enough for fifth place in the seven-team Ashland sectional. While that score was more than 14 1/2 points better than its postseason performance a year ago, the team was unable to advance any gymnasts to the state meet in what proved …
Lady Hodags fall to Menomonie to end season
An underdog Rhinelander squad without its leading scorer put up a fight Friday night but, ultimately, did not have enough to keep up with Menomonie in the WIAA tournament opener. Brooklyn Birt tallied 17 points, including 13 in the first half, as the fourth-seed Mustangs cruised past the fifth-seeded Hodags …
Schwinger bows out in second round of state wrestling tournament
Rhinelander senior Logan Schwinger went winless in his two matches at the WIAA individual state wrestling tournament at the Kohl Center in Madison.
Sports Digest
WIAA, UW-Madison extend state tournament facility agreement
RHS Sports recap: Saturday, March 1
Gymnastics: Rhinelander 5th/7, WIAA Sectionals
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