The Rogue River JSHS volleyball team was yet looking for its first win of the 2023 season with its Far West League match against South Umpqua at James Martin Court on Tues., Sept. 26. The Chieftains (0-8, 0-4) lost at Douglas 3-0, 25-12, 25-13, 25-17, on Thurs., Sept. 21. Reach[Read More…]
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Downs Cancels Five Races Due To Sunday Smoke
Jockeys Taylor Smith, Juan Guerrero, Leonel Camacho-Flores and Oracio Muro each won two races in the weekend program at Grants Pass Downs on Sun., Sept. 24, and Mon., Sept. 25. The Sunday program was abbreviated to just the first three races due to air quality issues through the weekend. There[Read More…]
Chieftains’ Soccer Loss
With a pair of first-half goals by senior Jeff Simpson, the Rogue River JSHS boys’ soccer team equaled its scoring output through its first six matches. The goals, Simpson’s second and third of the season couldn’t stop the Chieftains from falling against the Lost River/Bonanza team at Lost River High[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains’ 8th Team Wins Via Big Comeback
The Rogue River eighth grade volleyball team may have come up with the biggest victory in recent middle school RRJSHS middle school volleyball history. Two days after they had let their season-opening match slip away from them in a loss to New Hope Christian, the Junior Chieftains found themselves down[Read More…]
Chief Girls Hold Knights At Bay Early
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team, which, in its sixth match together, kept Lost River/Bonanza off the scoreboard through the first 60 minutes of their match earlier in the week, was able to do that with a more seasoned North Valley team through nearly 20 minutes of[Read More…]
Chieftains Fall At Reedsport
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team had one of those nights where not a lot seemed to go right. With both the Chieftains and host Reedsport each being flagged for what Rogue River coach Aaron Sturdevant figured was about 100 in penalty yardage each, it seemed to affect[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Win Second Game
The Rogue River middle-school level football team had taken a big lead at halftime, for the second week in a row to start the season, 49-0 at White Mountain on Wed., September 20. After they came out for the second half and had their warm-up for the half, and after[Read More…]
Ride The Rogue Has Lower Turnout
Organizers of the 12th Ride The Rogue cycling event, hoping for solid late registration to help bolster what had been a slower than usual pre-registration period, with great late summer/early fall weather through all of last week, received the letdown of letdowns, when on Fri., Sept. 22, smoke from somewhere[Read More…]
Lopez With Nine Wins, A Famous Ribbon Wins Big Race
Through the first three weekends of racing during the Grants Pass Downs Fall Season, Jaime Lopez is the leading jockey, with nine wins in 32 starts. He won four of those races in the Mon., Sept. 18 program, taking each of the first three races and becoming the beneficiary of[Read More…]
Chieftain Boys Still Learning, Score Second Goal
The first all-boys’ Rogue River Jr. Sr. High soccer team in four years, one could say, is slowly acclimating itself to league play. Through its first six matches, the Chieftains have not managed, yet, to play a full match, each of them ending early due to the OSAA’s eight-goal soccer[Read More…]
