After their strong start on their opening day in Klamath Falls, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team has lost three straight. The good news is all five of the games were on the road, the Chieftains haven’t had their pitching available, still waiting for junior Sawyer Ordonez’s hand[Read More…]
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District Financial Position Improves
Business manager Don Sweeney said the district’s financial picture has “improved a little bit” in March from February, from a slight increase in state school support it received this year, along with “some pretty drastic actions” the district took “to try to mitigate any future cuts.” He said the state[Read More…]
RRSD English Learners Pass Proficiency Test
Michele Cleveland, the Director of Special Programs for the Rogue River School District, relayed news of six English-language learners who recently completed the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) to the Rogue River School Board at its meeting on Tues, March 17. Speaking on behalf of Kim Wall, the district’s English[Read More…]
Chieftains Start Track And Field Season
On an uncharacteristically warm day, with a high-80s temperature that usually doesn’t come until mid-May district meet time, Rogue River athletes generated 10 top-five placing finishes at the biggest Grants Pass- and local season-opening event, The Rogue Valley Preview at Grants Pass High’s Russ Werner Field on Wed., March 18.[Read More…]
Chieftains Beat Mazama, No-Hit Bonanza On Opening Day
If the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team can put forth efforts the way it did in the Chieftains’ season-opening games on Tues., March 17, it could be an interesting spring at Mike Umscheid Field. The Chieftains swept a pair of games against Bonanza and Mazama, played in Klamath[Read More…]
RR Softball Goes 1-1, Explodes Against Bonanza
With a new lineup that includes several familiar and experienced players, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team split a pair of games at Mazama High in Klamath Falls, the Chieftains’ opening-day games, on Tuesday, March 17. The Chieftains (1-3) beat Bonanza 26-7 in three innings and then lost[Read More…]
“A Big Win,” Oregon’s FFA Funding Saved
Among the items of concern, at least to educators in the state, from the recently concluded Short Session of the Oregon Legislature was that funding for FFA would not be cut. “That’s a big win for our district,” Rogue River Superintendent Patrick Lee said in a report at the Rogue[Read More…]
Chieftain Track Getting Bigger, Getting Better
After years of low numbers and few results at the district and state levels, Dan Alden is hoping to help revive Rogue River High’s track and field program. Alden is a Rogue River High alumnus (Class of 1998). He went out for track and field when he was a senior[Read More…]
Baseball Team Senior-Led, Pitching Strong
Derek Nelson has been waiting for this season. In his fifth season as RRJSHS’s baseball coach, Nelson has been blessed with an experienced, even senior-led, team that he says will throw strikes, make plays on defense, and swing the bats better. “It looks like they got a different motor. A[Read More…]
Chief Softball To Make Splash In Class 3A League
The Rogue River Softball team will have a nice mix of experience and new athleticism, and the team hopes it will make a splash in the school’s last year, for now, in Class 3A. The Chieftains, in 2004 Rogue River High alum Jill Westlake’s eighth season, return players in several[Read More…]