Taking a cue from last year, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team was able to enter a meet on the same track as its eventual district meet later on in the season. In this case, the Chieftains were one of two smaller local schools added to[Read More…]
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Chiefs Can’t Stop Knights From League Title
For a Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team playing its first games in nearly three weeks, it was going to be difficult trying to stop No. 6 North Valley, trying to win its first softball league title in 33 years, last week. The Knights mostly put it all together[Read More…]
Chieftains Team Limping Toward The Finish
Coming off its best effort of the season in a one-run loss to 4A Hidden Valley, the week before, those around the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team could have been excused for belief that their team had a shot not only to win its first Class 3A Southern[Read More…]
Sunsets At SOU
Southern Oregon University, one of the region’s largest contributors, is facing a significant financial obstacle. SOU draws thousands of students to the town of Ashland every year, and even more to the surrounding areas when families move to the area or faculty move into the state for work. At the[Read More…]
School District Keeps SVA Staffing
The Rogue River School District Budget Committee faced the task of cutting between $425,000 and $450,000 from its budget during its annual meeting on Wednesday, May 6. Superintendent Patrick Lee opened the meeting by explaining that the district’s budget message had already been revised before the committee convened, based on[Read More…]
Land Leads Team In Final Laurel Hill Tourney
On a perfect day in the Rogue Valley and at Laurel Hill Golf Course, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High golf team played for the last time this season on its home course and honored its seniors on Tuesday, May 5. As it happened, the Chieftains’ lone senior presented the[Read More…]
Chieftain Hitters Come Through In Close Game
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team isn’t having the kind of season it thought it was going to have at its beginning in March, having just one win since its banner two-win day opening day, and that win happened now more than a month ago. But the three[Read More…]
Alden Reaches Pole Vault Best
Reagan Alden reached a goal both she and her father, Dan, who works as her pole vault coach, set: breaking 10 feet in the pole vault, helping her finish third at last year’s Class 3A state meet at 10 feet, 0 ¾ of an inch. At Illinois Valley, at its[Read More…]
Chiefs At Two Meets Last Week
Track and field athletes can count down, when they get to a certain point in the season, to the number of meets before the important ones on the schedule, the district and state meets. Before last Wed., April 22, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team had[Read More…]
Seniors-Sophs Win, Behind Garwood, Defense
Playing at Beck Field for the first time in any recent memory, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School Powderpuff Football Game didn’t have to resort to spontaneous rule changes that allowed “one more play” to allow for a big finish, in last year’s case, a long touchdown run by[Read More…]