Hodags competitive despite early-season adversity
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Hodags competitive despite early-season adversity
From his playing and coaching days, Derek Lemmens has plenty of connections in the boys' basketball coaching world, yet when faced with a 17-day break from practices and games in late December due to a whooping cough outbreak that swept through Rhinelander schools, there weren't a lot of answers to be found. During last Sunday's team banquet, Lemmens said he asked former RHS and UW-Stevens Point head coach Jack Bennett, longtime Wisconsin Rapids head man Dan Witter and others for advice and, to a man, got the same answer. (subscriber access)
