With a roster of only three seniors last year, North Valley High’s baseball team finished sixth in the 11-team Far West League baseball standings before going on a playoff run that saw the Knights win two early-round games and reach the Class 3A quarterfinals before a loss to Brookings-Harbor. That[Read More…]
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Knights Sweep Chieftains
It is highly possible that the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team will finish at .500 this year but will not be able to win a 3A Southern Oregon Conference game this spring. That would tell you the Chieftains (8-7) have succeeded against non-league opponents and that the four-team[Read More…]
RR Girls Second At SOMSAC Meet
Waylon Alden, an eighth grader, became Rogue River’s lone event champion at the Southern Oregon Middle School Athletic Conference (SOMSAC) Small Schools’ Track and Field Championships at Spiegelberg Stadium in Medford on Tuesday, May 6, the day Rogue River finished second in the girls’ team standings. Alden won in the[Read More…]
Chieftains Sweep St. Mary’s
The nice thing about the Class 3A Southern Oregon Conference’s baseball schedule format for this year, with each team playing one three-game series against each of the other five league opponents, is that this season, it gives every team three games against St. Mary’s. The Crusaders, the team from one[Read More…]
Wild Steelhead Season Ended; Report Tags
Rogue-South Coast winter steelhead fishing season and ODFW asks anglers who purchased a paper wild winter steelhead harvest tag to report their tag now, even if they didn’t harvest a steelhead. Anglers using paper tags are encouraged to report their harvest tag now rather than before the next season begins[Read More…]
Chiefs Go Two Straight Days
With the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team’s district meet, the Class 3A, District 2 meet, a two-day event in a couple of weeks (Wed.-Thurs., May 21-22 in Brookings), the Chieftains used the occasion of its second-and-third-to-last meets to stack them both together to create the conditions[Read More…]
Dirks Wins Laurel Hill Invite, Final Meet Before Districts
Freshman Trevor Dirks was a late addition to the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ golf team, but he quickly showed up as the Chieftains’ top player through its early tournaments. At the team’s final regular season tournament before its district tournaments next week, Dirks was the best player on[Read More…]
Braxton Blast, Chiefs Sweep KU
In her team’s first games in nearly two weeks, Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball coach Jill Westlake said the goal for her was patience. They also made sure they played fundamentally solid softball and pushed through just their third doubleheader of the season when they faced non-league, Class 4A[Read More…]
Time To Report Winter Steelhead, Catch Spring Kings
Spring Chinooks are in the Rogue River, offering anglers a chance at once of the hardest-fighting and best-eating fish that swims. Trout stocking has also ramped up, with many waters receiving thousands of fresh fish the past two weeks. Some steelhead are being caught along with the migrating springers. As[Read More…]
Seniors-Sophomore Win At Powder Puff
Last year, the Junior-Freshman team won the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Powder Puff Football Game with a miracle play: Carly Blankenship’s 90-yard interception return in overtime. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to believe sudden tweaks in the rules might have been put in place to ensure[Read More…]