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…]
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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…]
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…]
Chieftain Cheer Has Big Dreams
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School’s most successful, maybe its most exciting team, on a statewide level, the last two years has been its Cheerleading team. In its competitive season, the Chieftains team improved on its 12th-place finish in 2025 to fourth place at state at the competition held on[Read More…]
Chieftain Boys’ Starting Over In New 2A-1A League
It seems as though, just when the Rogue River JSHS boys’ soccer program started to gain momentum after its dormant season in 2021 and its run as a co-ed team in 2022, finally getting a foothold with numbers and a set of dedicated younger players, the Chieftains are starting back[Read More…]
Girls’ Soccer Team Looks To Make Another Playoff Run In ’26
It has been wild watching the improvement of the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer in the three years since Clyde Fields was hired to lead the program in June 2023. The 4-24 record through the first two seasons turned out to be a buildup to what became the[Read More…]
Westlake Adds Volleyball To RR Coaching Experience
Jill Westlake didn’t play volleyball when she attended Rogue River High School. In her autumns, while she was becoming an all-Skyline Conference catcher for the Chieftain softball teams in the spring, she was on the soccer pitch. Move ahead just over 20 years, and Westlake has a daughter who has[Read More…]
Chiefs Look To Break Into Playoffs
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team came as close as it had in at least seven years to making a state playoff berth, the school’s first since 2002, after winning three of its first four Class 2A District 5 games last year. What the Chieftains (4-5 in 2025)[Read More…]
Chiefs Fall In First Game To Bigger Bruins
If Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football is to go where it wants to go, that is, into the Class 2A state football playoffs, it will face deep teams with lots of big personnel it can slot in and out throughout the game. A good local equivalent was a 3A[Read More…]