The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High junior high volleyball team finished its home schedule last week with a match against Fleming at the Rogue River Elementary School West campus gym, falling to the Cavaliers 25-11, 25-13, 15-10. The team concludes its 11-match season on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Breanna Ferrel, in[Read More…]
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District Starts Year With Enrollment Increase
At the first meeting of the Rogue River School District on Tuesday, Sept. 15, Dr. April Harrison, the district’s new superintendent, and a couple of her principals commented on growth, mostly in enrollment, that had already taken place in just the first week of the school year. School administrators are[Read More…]
Chief Girls Honor Seniors, Blast Glide 8-0
Three of the Chieftains’ five seniors scored in the team’s final regular-season home match, the Senior Night win against Glide on Thursday, Oct. 8. Carmen Brown, the team’s leading scorer, who scored the team’s first goal in the first match in the rejuvenated girls’ soccer program’s first season in 2023,[Read More…]
Boys’ Soccer Set For Big Final Matches
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team was set to take on the biggest hurdle in its quest to reach the state playoffs in the first year of the new Class 2A/1A boys’ soccer class, against 8-1 and No. 9 Pacific in Port Orford on Tuesday, Oct. 13.[Read More…]
Chiefs Knock Down Defending Champs
In this season of long-sought-out football respectability for the Rogue River Jr. High program, another kryptonite program fell at their feet on their home turf. This time, it was Lost River, the Class 2A (and sometimes 1A) powerhouse that has won three state championships in the last four years and[Read More…]
Volleyball Team Back For Final Match
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team is playing its last two road games in the school’s first campaign, of any sport, in the Chieftain teams’ new Class 2A home, the East Cascades Conference, this week. The Chieftains (5-10) were getting a firsthand look at a league in which[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Eight-Game Streak Ends
The first rule about winning streaks is that they’re awesome. The second one is that they end. The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High junior high football team had won its first three games this season in following its undefeated 5-0 season last year, but faced a Lorna Byrne team that[Read More…]
Chief Boys Win, Take Tough Losses
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team will have to do a lot of their work toward making the state playoffs, with four of their final five matches away from Beck Field. The Chieftains (4-4) fell to 2-2 in Class 2A-1A District 3 with a pair of losses[Read More…]
RRSD, Orndoff Victim, Insurance Company Settle
The case involving the financial compensation for the victim of sexual abuse by a former teacher, coach, and athletic director at Rogue River Junior Senior High School was settled in a Jackson County Circuit Courtroom on Thursday, Sept. 17. The victim, a former student at RRJSHS, will receive $1,650,000, paid[Read More…]
Chief Girls Fight, But Fall To Bruins
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team played two matches over a four-day period that would likely indicate where they might place in their league, Class 3A/2A/1A District 3. The Chieftains (6-4, 5-2) passed the first step with a 2-1 win on the hot artificial turf at Sutherlin[Read More…]