The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team had a tough task ahead of it in its final Southern Oregon Conference series with No. 8 Lakeview looming last week. Indeed, the Honkers, who dominated the four-team Southern Oregon Conference with an 8-1 record, showed it can quickly score a lot[Read More…]
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Stay Safe On And Around The Water
We’re halfway through National Safe Boating Week, an annual event recognized as the unofficial start of the boating season across the country. Across the country, there were more than 3,800 boating accidents involving 564 deaths and $63 million dollars of property damage due to recreational boating accidents in 2023, the[Read More…]
Chieftain Softball Final Home Game
Chieftain fans will get to see the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team for the last time in the Chieftains’ season finale at Thomas Artoff Field on Wed., May 21. The Chieftains host Glendale in a single game at 3:00 p.m. (updated 5/20/25 from 4:30 p.m.) The Chieftains are[Read More…]
No. 3 North Valley Shuts Down Chiefs
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…]
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…]