The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ basketball team is perhaps beginning to feel the effects of being about a month behind the rest of the teams they play, now that, following just three non-league games, they’re in the midst of their league schedule. Already challenged with scoring, the Chieftains[Read More…]
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Fee Waived For ’26 B&C Entries
A long-time Lifetime Associate and benefactor to conservation has provided the Boone and Crockett Club the opportunity to waive entry processing fees into the organization’s Records program. Thanks to the generous donation, the club announced that the usual $40 entry fee will not be charged this year. The vision is[Read More…]
Mungai Is Third-Team Statewide Football Selection
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s football program saw its first statewide award recipient in football in several years with sophomore Devante Mungai. Mungai was selected for the OSAA Class 2A All-State Third Team in December. The all-state awards, new to OSAA, are compiled in conjunction with the Oregon Athletic Directors[Read More…]
Chieftains Fall In First Two League Games
The good feeling from the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ basketball team’s double-overtime win against Lost River – only Rogue River’s second win against a team higher than Class 1A since 2020 – didn’t last when the Chieftains started Class 3A Southern Oregon Conference play. The team scored only[Read More…]
The Chiefs Have Four Champions At Rumble
The Rogue River Jr.-Sr. High boys’ wrestling teams could realistically have at least five wrestlers qualify for the Class 3A state tournament in Portland at the end of February. The Rogue River story this wrestling season has been its girls’ team, which has placed sixth or better at six tournaments,[Read More…]
Ready For The Backyard Bird Count?
The 29th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, a free, global event that helps scientists understand changes in bird populations and distribution, will be held Feb. 13-16. Participants spend as little as 15 minutes tracking the birds in their favorite places, whether the backyard, afield or from a vehicle. They then[Read More…]
Chieftain Girls’ Team Starts Late
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…]
Chief Girls Sixth At Lady Logger Classic
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…]
Chieftain Boys Get One, In Double OT
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…]
Chief Girls 3rd, Guys 10th At Eagle Point
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…]