Are you a first-time wild turkey hunter, or haven’t had much luck in the past? There are some excellent tips in the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2026 spring turkey forecast, now available online at https://myodfw.com/articles/2026-spring-turkey-hunting-forecast. You can also learn new skills at a spring turkey hunting workshop designed to[Read More…]
Sports
Chiefs Take Late Wins, Fixing Walks
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team went 1-3 at the Lady Buff Classic at Madras, on Monday and Tuesday of Spring Break, March 23-24, falling to Mazama (4-1) and Lost River (19-4) in the Monday games and losing against Clatskanie (16-1) before they regrouped to beat LaPine 11-10[Read More…]
Chieftains Baseball Team 2-3
After their strong start on their opening day in Klamath Falls, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team has lost three straight. The good news is all five of the games were on the road, the Chieftains haven’t had their pitching available, still waiting for junior Sawyer Ordonez’s hand[Read More…]
Chieftains Start Track And Field Season
On an uncharacteristically warm day, with a high-80s temperature that usually doesn’t come until mid-May district meet time, Rogue River athletes generated 10 top-five placing finishes at the biggest Grants Pass- and local season-opening event, The Rogue Valley Preview at Grants Pass High’s Russ Werner Field on Wed., March 18.[Read More…]
Chieftains Beat Mazama, No-Hit Bonanza On Opening Day
If the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team can put forth efforts the way it did in the Chieftains’ season-opening games on Tues., March 17, it could be an interesting spring at Mike Umscheid Field. The Chieftains swept a pair of games against Bonanza and Mazama, played in Klamath[Read More…]
RR Softball Goes 1-1, Explodes Against Bonanza
With a new lineup that includes several familiar and experienced players, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team split a pair of games at Mazama High in Klamath Falls, the Chieftains’ opening-day games, on Tuesday, March 17. The Chieftains (1-3) beat Bonanza 26-7 in three innings and then lost[Read More…]
Chieftain Track Getting Bigger, Getting Better
After years of low numbers and few results at the district and state levels, Dan Alden is hoping to help revive Rogue River High’s track and field program. Alden is a Rogue River High alumnus (Class of 1998). He went out for track and field when he was a senior[Read More…]
Baseball Team Senior-Led, Pitching Strong
Derek Nelson has been waiting for this season. In his fifth season as RRJSHS’s baseball coach, Nelson has been blessed with an experienced, even senior-led, team that he says will throw strikes, make plays on defense, and swing the bats better. “It looks like they got a different motor. A[Read More…]
Chief Softball To Make Splash In Class 3A League
The Rogue River Softball team will have a nice mix of experience and new athleticism, and the team hopes it will make a splash in the school’s last year, for now, in Class 3A. The Chieftains, in 2004 Rogue River High alum Jill Westlake’s eighth season, return players in several[Read More…]
Chieftains Looking To Gain Experience
Rogue River Golf Coach Rob Isom, who had all of one day, after returning from the state wrestling tournament, to convert from thinking about the mat to thinking about the links, his third sport as its head coach through the school year beginning this year, said last year was a[Read More…]