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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
Hodags have sights on historic GNC streak
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 Conference titles.
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.
Team preview: RHS girls’ soccer
Hodags looking to put pieces together for deep playoff run
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.
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.
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.
Team review: RHS boys’ basketball
Hodag Hoops wins conference, but struggles again in postseason
It was certainly another strong year for the Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball team, even if its ending left the Hodags wanting more out of it.
Team review: RHS girls’ basketball
Lady Hodags found stride late to make tourney push
Rhinelander had young talent, and while it took some time for the pieces to gel, the Hodags showed by the end of the year that they could compete with some of the best teams, and players, in Division 2.
RHS boys win two events, take fourth in Ashland
The Rhinelander High School boys’ track team was still missing a number of key pieces on Tuesday, but turned in a fourth-place performance in the eight-team Oredocker Large School Invitational in Ashland.