It’s extraordinary. High school basketball teams don’t start after Christmas. But in the case of the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s girls’ basketball team, which was assembled in mid-December after what could be described as a reboot of the program at the administrative level, the choice appeared to be “start[Read More…]

The weekend before the Chieftains get to spend their only weekend (aside from the holiday weekends) at home, the boys’ and girls’ wrestling teams were all over the place on Fri., Jan. 9, and Sat., Jan. 10. The Chieftain girls’ team nearly added to another piece of hardware to its[Read More…]

The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ basketball team in the last season and a half has played eight games in which the final margin was by seven points or fewer. They had won four of those, so they had seen some success. Three of those were against teams from[Read More…]

It was a meet on the last Saturday of Christmas break, but in what may have been a first, Rogue River’s wrestling teams at the Hunter Hoeptner Memorial Invitational at Eagle Point included more that would be competing in the girls’ competition (nine) than the five in the boys’ competition.[Read More…]

In last week’s edition, the Dec. 31, 2025 edition, our last one of The Year 2025, we published what we announced as our Top Four Sports stories of the year. It was a solid list, we thought, honoring Rogue River Junior Senior High School’s high state track and field finisher[Read More…]

Perhaps the advent of a new year truly brings new energy, even to high school boys’ basketball teams trying to find their way. The Chieftains found renewed vigor when they faced familiar 3A rival Sutherlin in their one game between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and then Glendale in their[Read More…]