Players on the Rogue River Jr.-Sr. golf team will spend their last two weeks fine-tuning their games in time for their district meets. The Chieftain girls’ team played a practice round at Running Y Golf and Country Club in Klamath Falls, where the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A District 5 tournament will be[Read More…]
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Chiefs Stay In Game Against No. 2 Challengers
Dustin Morton did everything he could to keep his Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team competitive against one of the best Class 3A teams in the state on its home field, in the rain. The senior threw a complete game, 107 pitches over the five innings in the rain-shortened[Read More…]
RR Softball, Just Waiting For A Game
It’s hard enough trying to schedule games when you have a 16-day gap built into the time you’re usually playing a league schedule. Throw in a little rainstorm on the day you scheduled a game to fill in, and you begin to wonder if you’ll play again. Barring an extended[Read More…]
Gov’s ‘Recovery’ Order May Cause Snow Day Issues
Superintendent Patrick Lee commented on an Executive Order from Gov. Tina Kotek to achieve the stated goal of protecting and restoring student instructional time statewide at the Tues., April 21 meeting of the Rogue River School Board. “This was in response to a large number of states across the state[Read More…]
Special Programs Keeps Students Fed
The Rogue River School District has, for years, found a way to, behind the scenes, help students stay in school and keep coming back. Quay Goff, the secretary for the district’s Special Programs staff and head of the district’s “Backpack program,” addressed what she and others have done to help[Read More…]
Chieftain Golf Team Is Moving Towards The End Of The Season
After hosting its own girls and junior varsity boys’ scramble at Laurel Hill Golf Course on Tues, Feb. 14, the Rogue River boys’ golf team and two girls played at the Bruin Classic at Salmon Run in Brookings on Thurs. April 16. The Chieftains took, as its boys’ foursome, Joey[Read More…]
Chief Girls Third At Brookings
Carmen Brown, a junior, had a big day for the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ track and field team, particularly anchoring the Chieftains’ win in the 4×400 relay and placing in the top six in three other events at the 20-school Brookings-Harbor Rotary Invitational meet on Saturday, April 18.[Read More…]
Chiefs Draw Tough First Matchup vs. Bruins
Already reeling to a 3-7 start that was clearly not in their or coach Derek Nelson’s plans heading into their Class 3A Southern Oregon Conference season, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball program’s last one for a while, the Chieftains appear to have drawn the shortest straw by drawing[Read More…]
Softball Team Shows Grit
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team might struggle through this season of transition. Still, even with the changes in position, particularly in the pitching circle, the Chieftains have enough experience and grit not to let go of games. The Chieftains (4-11, 0-3) lost their first Class 3A Southern[Read More…]
Chief Teams, Several Bests At Bonanza
The Rogue River track and field teams showed more of that potential that early marks this year and marks at the end of last season hinted at, with the Chieftain boys’ and girls’ teams each taking fourth place at the 13 (boys’) and 14 (girls’)-team Antler Invitational at Bonanza on[Read More…]