The next crop of Rogue River volleyball players started their new season on their home court in the Junior Chieftains’ middle school-level opener at the Rogue River Elementary School-West Gym on Mon., Sept. 18. The Junior Chieftains opened with New Hope Christian, the teams splitting the two matches. Rogue River[Read More…]
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Board Hires OutlierBuild For Wellness Center Project
The Rogue River School Board voted to hire OutlierBuild of Medford to lead the design-build team for the wellness and early learning center built through funds provided by the Oregon Legislature in 2021 at its meeting on Tues., Sept. 19. OutlierBuild will conduct site reviews, followed by design work. Lee[Read More…]
Junior Chiefs Gain 405 Yards
Five Rogue River players combined for 405 rushing yards and all seven touchdowns in the Junior Chieftains’ 48-0 middle school-level football victory against Talent. The season-opening game at Chieftain Stadium was on Wed., Sept. 23. Quarterback Trevor Dirks, the Junior Chieftains’ second-year quarterback as an eighth grader, scored a pair[Read More…]
More Expected From Boys’ Soccer Team In 2023
When Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School decided to re-introduce soccer after a complete hiatus during the fall of 2021, its return was, in its form, a soft landing, with a co-ed team, with all interested players on one team, not playing in a league. At its peak, the Chieftains[Read More…]
Chieftain Volleyball Looks To Build On First Season Back In 3A
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team performed as well as it could have given its first year at a classification level it hadn’t played in four years. The volleyball team was the first of RRJSHS’s teams to play in the 3A Far West League, and, with a young[Read More…]
Girls’ Soccer Returns To RRJSHS
On Oct. 30, 2019, Rogue River beat Marshfield 5-3 in a season-ending non-league game at Beck Field. Before this season, it was the last girls’ soccer match for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High athletes. The 2019 team, which finished 7-5-1, included seven seniors among its 15 players, and with no[Read More…]
Chieftain Football’s Youth Take Center Stage In 2023
Though the strength of the Chieftains’ 2022 football season was within the senior talent on the team, with Said McWillie running the ball, Weston Foor running and passing, and Christian Moody on both lines, the bulk of the Rogue River team, much of the season was its youth. In postgame[Read More…]
Chiefs Open League Season, Score First Goal
The Rogue River boys’ soccer team, with young team yet with some pieces on which to build a more sustainable model for a soccer program, through ball control, finesse and skill, is having a slow start to the season. Its coaches understood that it might take some time, with a[Read More…]
Chiefs Come Back Strong, Fall To Monroe
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team started slowly and wasn’t able to make plays at the end in what turned out to be a 46-38 loss to Monroe on Fri., Sept. 8. But in between, for about 18 minutes of the second half, one could argue the Chieftains[Read More…]
Girls’ Soccer Team Experiences Growing Pains, First Losses
After the excitement of forming a girls’ soccer team, with players who’ve learned the game through Rogue River’s own club soccer system, and starting Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s first girls’ soccer season in four years with a win against South Umpqua, the Chieftains and their fans have learned that[Read More…]
