Josh O’Gorman, who has been a physical education teacher and a coach in the Rogue River School District since 2021, was hired as the boys’ basketball coach at Rogue River Junior Senior High School during the Rogue River School Board meeting on Tues., Sept. 15. O’Gorman served as junior varsity[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
RR Volleyball Gearing Up For Action
By the middle of this week, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team will be in the midst of a run of matches and tournaments — five matches and two Saturday tournaments, to be exact — that lead right into the first matches in their new Class 2A league,[Read More…]
Chief Girls Win Opening Day
Rogue River girls’ soccer coach Clyde Fields is not easily satisfied, particularly with a win in his team’s opening match of the season. Still, he could find much to like, along with the understandable much to work on in the Chieftains’ 3-0 opening-day win against Madras at Beck Field on[Read More…]
Chieftains Fall To Glide, 46-21
Ready for a chance to play a team closer to its size than its Week One opponent, 3A Brookings-Harbor, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team didn’t get a reprieve against local rival, sometimes in league, sometimes not, Glide on the road on Fri., Sept. 11 in a 46-21[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Win First, At Eagle Point
Zane Wardle scored a pair of touchdowns and ran for 120 yards, as the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Junior High-level football team won at Talent 26-12 in its first game of the season on Wed., Sept. 9. Dane Alvarez Jr. is the Junior Chieftains coach this fall, with Derek[Read More…]
Chiefs Win After Taking Mercy Rule Loss
It has been a rough patch for Rogue River boys’ soccer over the last eight to 10 years. Never mind having Cascade Christian and St. Mary’s to deal with all those years. There were seasons after the Decker and Poston brothers graduated, and then it became hard to field teams,[Read More…]
Fielder Mountain Fire Followed A Straight Line
When Jackson County Fire District 1 Chief Mike Hammond reported on his perspective of the Fielder Mountain Fire Aug. 13-14 to the district’s board of directors on Wed., Sept. 9, he was still amazed. “It’s amazing to me even today that we did not lose any structures out there (on[Read More…]
Downs Honors Trainer Irwin
Three jockeys rose to the top of the jockeys standings through the first of five weekends of the Grants Pass Downs Fall season, which started on Sun., Sept. 13, and continued through Mon., Sept 14. Veteran jockey Jake Nunnally won the fourth and fifth races on opening day, Sept. 13,[Read More…]
Chiefs Beat Knights
Fans at the opening match for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s boys’ soccer team, when it had a 3-1 lead in the first half against North Valley on Thursday, Sept. 3, couldn’t be blamed if they were thinking of a similar game at Beck Field last season in which the[Read More…]
Chiefs Get Good Start
In its first match since its five-set, come-from-behind win at New Hope Christian, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team had a competitive start at Glendale playing to a 28-26 first-set loss, but the host Pirates won the match 3-0, 28-26, 25-17. 25-15. After a match at 1A Yoncalla,[Read More…]