The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team got off the wrong foot in starting Class 2A District 5 play, falling at Culver 52-6 on Fri., Sept. 20. “On Friday night, we started really flat,” Chieftains coach Mike Braxton said. “It got way out of hand. It was 38-6 in[Read More…]
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RR Girls’ Soccer Keeps Improving Through Close Losses
Every week, the incremental steps toward improvement, transitioning from “beginning” high school girls’ soccer team to “competitive” girls’ soccer, occur within the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ team. The Chieftains (1-4, 1-3 District 4) were tied at halftime in their match at Lost River in Klamath County on Tues.,[Read More…]
Talent Has Last Word In MS Football Opener
Waylon Alden scored a pair of touchdowns, both on reverse runs, but the Junior Chieftains couldn’t come up with a third to tie the score in their 22-14 season-opening middle-school-level football loss to Talent at Chieftain Stadium on Wed., Sept. 11. Talent took the lead or tied the game with[Read More…]
Chieftain Boys Start District 5 On The Road
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team starts District 5 play on Thurs., Sept. 19, and the Chieftains will look to see if they can put the ball in the net against league competition. The Chieftains (0-4) were held scoreless through two games in the last week in[Read More…]
Girls’ Soccer Wins League Opener At IV
We may already see the incremental improvements the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team has promised since last season. Just as the Chieftains improved as a young soccer unit through 2023, the school’s first girls ‘-only soccer season in five years, the team is already taking steps through[Read More…]
Watkins Returns To RR Cheer
Shae Watkins was a cheerleader at Rogue River Jr. Sr. High for four years before she graduated in 2013. She came back to coach the Chieftain cheer team in the 2017-18 school year and started the following year, coaching the team until three weeks before her son was born in[Read More…]
Younger Group Injects New Attitude For Soccer Team
History is still being made with Rogue River boys’ soccer! The Chieftains, in the first boys-only season since 2019 and with new coaches Tom Bigboy and Rob Isom, adjusted to a league season, more or less from scratch, with a collection of two seniors who had played through at least[Read More…]
Chieftains Start SOC Play Thursday
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Volleyball team starts its first-ever season in the newly configured Southern Oregon Conference (SOC) this week with a match at Brookings-Harbor on Thurs., Sept. 19. The Chieftains will look for a change of fortune in the league, which appears to be the same as[Read More…]
Change ‘Culture’ Within RR Football
A new Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football program is doing its best to turn around a recent trend of low numbers and apathy that folks at its head hope will lead to not only football wins but also more participation and better academic success, those things that make up[Read More…]
Chieftain Girls Look For Further Growth
The Rogue River girls’ soccer team, in its second year under Clyde Fields since the team was brought back for the first time since 2019, might feel like an all-new team – even if this year’s team has ten players back from last year’s squad. This fall’s team is huge,[Read More…]