Johnson named GNC player of the year

STAR JOURNAL REPORT

The Rhinelander tennis team won the Great Northern Conference meet Friday, making this year’s seniors the first class to win a conference championship all four years, “since I don’t know when, but it’s a long time ago,” said coach Bob Heideman.

Markus Johnson defeated Antigo’s Tanner Stueck 6-4, 6-3 and Medford’s Alec Shear, 6-3, 6-3 to become the conference champion at No. 1 singles and was named conference player of the year, an honor which Heideman said was “well deserved.”

After a loss to Ashland earlier in the week, Heideman said the team came out on a mission Friday.

“We hit on all cylinders today, and that was led by our five seniors,” he added.
They had some close sets but came out okay.

“Freddy had to put together a streak of 11 straight points to pull out his last set,” Heideman noted. “Cade and Logan had a close set in the semis and Grant and Jared played perhaps their best set of the year in their last set.”

The final team standings had the Hodags on top with 134 points, Medford and Pacelli tied for second with 81, followed by Lakeland, 64, and Antigo with 25 points.

RHINELANDER HIGH 11, MINOCQUA LAKELAND HIGH 1, MEDFORD HIGH 1, STEVENS POINT PACELLI HIGH SCHOOL 1, ANTIGO HIGH 0

Singles
No. 1 — Markus Johnson, RHINELANDER, def . Tanner Stueck, ANTIGO, 6-4, 6-3; No. 1 — Markus Johnson, RHINELANDER, def . Alec Shear, MEDFORD, 6-3, 6-3; No. 2 — Corey Baron, PACELLI High School, def . Russell Benoy, RHINELANDER, 4-6, 2-6; No. 2 — Russell Benoy, RHINELANDER, def . Matt Holmes, LAKELAND,, 2-0, 2-0; No. 3 — Jacob Weddle, RHINELANDER , def . Jarrett Shields,PACELLI High School, 6-1, 6-1; No. 3 — Sterling Reilly, MEDFORD, def . Jacob Weddle, RHINELANDER, 6-1, 6-0; No. 4 — Freddy Wisner, RHINELANDER, def . Trevin Milbauer, PACELLI High School, 7-5, 7-5; No. 4 — Freddy Wisner, RHINELANDER, def . Jerome Jones, ANTIGO, 6-1, 6-2;

Doubles
No. 1 — Jared Haug-Conner Young, RHINELANDER, def. Joe Bartletti-Brody Bunnell, ANTIGO  6-3, 6-1; No. 1 — Anthony Holmes-Jack Garcia, LAKELAND, def. Jared Haug-Conner Young,RHINELANDER 2-6, 6-7; No. 2 — Jared Fabich-Grant Gilbert, RHINELANDER, def. Armin Kliewe-Logan Searles, MEDFORD 6-4, 6-2; No. 2 — Jared Fabich-Grant Gilbert, RHINELANDER, def. Jared McFarlane-Zach Reineke, ANTIGO 6-2, 6-0; No. 3 — Cade Aschenbrenner-Logan Oestreich, RHINELANDER, def. Carson Kleist-Zach Kawa, MEDFORD 6-1, 7-5; No. 3 — Cade Aschenbrenner-Logan Oestreich, RHINELANDER, def. Andrew Pisarski-Isaac Kosoloucki, PACELLI High School 6-1, 6-2;