The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team started its season off with a pair of narrow non-league losses, but started its 3A Far West League season running into one of the league’s top teams, Brookings-Harbor. The Bruins (2-2, 2-0) were one of the three teams from the Far West,[Read More…]
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Rock A Story At RRES
“I caught one!” laughs third grader Amelia Marsh. Mike Longnecker, fourth-grade teacher and the fishing guide, helps her reel in her prize, a pack of stickers, at Rogue River Elementary School’s (RRES) annual family reading night, Reading Rocks! “Literacy is fundamental,” says first-grade teacher Sandy Mathews. “Watching kids and adults[Read More…]
Chiefs Earn Dramatic Sweep Vs. Bruins
The arc of the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team’s entire season may have been changed by a single text message sent the weekend before last. The text came to Chieftains softball coach Jill Westlake from her team’s first baseman from last season. That’s Suzy Smith. Smith is a[Read More…]
New JSHS Vice Principal Hired; AD Leaving
The Rogue River School Board approved the hire of current South Umpqua High School graduation coach Emily Figueroa-Wolfe as the new vice principal at Rogue River Junior Senior High School at its Tues., March 19 meeting. Figueroa-Wolfe will work with RRJSHS principal Tori Kirkpatrick, the school’s vice principal, before she[Read More…]
Golf Teams Hoping To Reach State
Most of the Rogue River boys’ and girls’ golf teams are back this year, and the Chieftain teams are coming off years when they were both close enough to taste a trip to the state tournament in each case. It might be time for the teams or their higher-seeded individuals[Read More…]
Smith Returns To Pace Chieftains’ Track And Field Team
Last year, Rogue River saw one of its more athletic track and field classes participate at the Class 3A District 5 meet. Several athletes in a strong senior class had chances to qualify for state, but in the end, the Chieftains sent two of them, Sam Haag in the 200[Read More…]
New Faces But Same Attitude With Chieftain Softball
There will be quite a few new faces at Thomas Artoff Field with the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Softball team. This year’s Chieftains team has no seniors for the first time in a year. It has several experienced players, but it has no seniors. On top of that, the[Read More…]
Chieftains More Competitive This Year
Derek Nelson would gladly accept a team of guys who could play the game as well as he could when he was an all-league selection with the Chieftains before he graduated in 2019. He hopes to have a team full of guys who played as hard as he did in[Read More…]
Snow/Artoff Combo Third At Season-Starter
At their opening event of the season, ten players, five male and five female, were available to play at Dutcher Creek Golf Course for its Dutcher Freeze tournament on Tues., March 12. Rogue River’s top male combo of senior Gavin Snow and junior Johnny Artoff was third with the players’[Read More…]
Two Big Innings Pour It On Softball Opener
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High scored seven runs in the first inning, sending 12 players to the plate, then added 14 runs as 17 came to the plate in the Chieftain softball team’s 23-4 season-opening victory at 2A Bonanza on Thurs., March 14. Junior Amanda LeDoux, playing left field, had[Read More…]