The Rogue River girls’ soccer team, the school’s first since 2019, is seeing its own incremental improvement through the first few weeks of the season. In its first two road matches of the season, the Chieftains were able to score against a team considered to be among the best in[Read More…]
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Chieftains Find Glide Tough At Net, Fall In Three
So much of volleyball is movement and defending the floor, but at the same, to win matches, teams have to find a way to authoritatively hit the ball over the net and hit the other team’s floor. Not being able to mount an offensive attack, against even time like Glide,[Read More…]
Cougars Run Through Chieftains In League Opener
Take a bad start, that keeps getting worse from there, adding up that it’s against your closest rival, to whom you lost by a similar score a year ago, in your league opener, and you wind up not only with a frustrating loss, but with a lot of residual frustration.[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Split Volleyball Opener Vs. Warriors
The next crop of Rogue River volleyball players started their new season on their home court in the Junior Chieftains’ middle school-level opener at the Rogue River Elementary School-West Gym on Mon., Sept. 18. The Junior Chieftains opened with New Hope Christian, the teams splitting the two matches. Rogue River[Read More…]
Nearly 300 Expected For Ride The Rogue Saturday
Cyclists from all over the region, as many as 300 expected, as in 2022, will be on the roads throughout the valley, for the 12th Ride The Rogue cycling event on Sat., Sept. 23. There are three rides, starting in the morning, all beginning and ending at Palmerton Park. The[Read More…]
Junior Chiefs Gain 405 Yards
Five Rogue River players combined for 405 rushing yards and all seven touchdowns in the Junior Chieftains’ 48-0 middle school-level football victory against Talent. The season-opening game at Chieftain Stadium was on Wed., Sept. 23. Quarterback Trevor Dirks, the Junior Chieftains’ second-year quarterback as an eighth grader, scored a pair[Read More…]
‘Killing Contests’ Part Of Commission Agenda
Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider rules to prohibit so-called “killing contests” for the taking of coyotes and other unprotected mammals at its meeting Friday. Last December, the Commission denied a petition while directing state staff to develop rules to stop such contests in a way that is consistent[Read More…]
More Expected From Boys’ Soccer Team In 2023
When Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School decided to re-introduce soccer after a complete hiatus during the fall of 2021, its return was, in its form, a soft landing, with a co-ed team, with all interested players on one team, not playing in a league. At its peak, the Chieftains[Read More…]
Chieftain Volleyball Looks To Build On First Season Back In 3A
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team performed as well as it could have given its first year at a classification level it hadn’t played in four years. The volleyball team was the first of RRJSHS’s teams to play in the 3A Far West League, and, with a young[Read More…]
Girls’ Soccer Returns To RRJSHS
On Oct. 30, 2019, Rogue River beat Marshfield 5-3 in a season-ending non-league game at Beck Field. Before this season, it was the last girls’ soccer match for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High athletes. The 2019 team, which finished 7-5-1, included seven seniors among its 15 players, and with no[Read More…]
