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BOYS BASEBALL: Hodags to host Green Bay Southwest in WIAA D1 tourney opener

May 19, 2017

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Members of the 2017 Hodag boys baseball team include, from left, front row, Brad Quade, Cole Spaulding, Alec Modrow, Tyler Olson, Ollie Ebrecht, Jacob DeMeyer. Back row, Easton Senoraske, Matt Rudolph, Brad Comer, Tyler Blomdahl, Tait Spencer, Josh Randolph, Liam Stevens, Kaden Umland. Photo by Bob Mainhardt

STAR JOURNAL REPORT

The Rhinelander High School varsity baseball team has received the No. 6 seed in its WIAA Division 1 Sectional and will open tournament play at home May 30 at 5 p.m. against No. 11-seeded Green Bay Southwest.

The winner will advance to the tournament’s second round June 1 to face No. 3-seeded De Pere at De Pere for the right to play in the sectional semifinal June 6 at 1 p.m. at Wausau West.

Other teams in the Hodags’ half of the sectional include No. 7-seeded Bay Port and No. 10-seeded Pulaski, which face each other to open the tournament with the winner playing No. 2-seeded Wausau West.

Green Bay Preble, which is the sectional’s overall top seed, is in the other half of the tournament bracket that includes No. 4-seeded Green Bay East/West, No. 5-seeded D.C. Everest, No. 8-seeded Green Bay Notre Dame, No. 9-seeded Ashwaubenon and No. 12-seeded Wausau East.