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By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The Eagle Varsity Track Program will hold its 2014 Inter-squad Meet this Tuesday, March 18 at Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track. The meet is scheduled to start at 4:15 pm. and conclude at 6:15 pm. McKenzie Baseball Strikes Out Is it three strikes and you’re out? Benched for just the third time in McKenzie High School history, the Eagles will not field a Varsity Baseball team this spring. Not enough players to make up a team, according to McKenzie Athletic Director and Head Baseb...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie High School Athletic Department will host the 2014 Winter Sports Awards Program on Tuesday, March 11 with at the High School cafeteria with the event scheduled for 6:00 pm. Mt. West League Update The Triangle Lake Girls Basketball team defeated Prairie City in their OSAA Quarter-Final game held at Baker City on Wednesday, March 5. The Lakers won 44-40 led by their standout Mt. West League Player of the Year, Kianna Brown. Brown scored 29 pts. and grabbed 15 rebounds....
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie’s Varsity Girls Basketball team hosts the St. Paul Buckaroos on Tuesday, February 25, with game time scheduled for a 6:00 pm. tipoff. An Eagle win would earn McKenzie a Second Round game to be scheduled on Friday, February 28 with an opponent, place and time also yet to be decided. Sailor’s Ford Steals Eagle’s Post Season Hopes Mapleton’s Tucker Ford disrupted the McKenzie offense with 7 steals and the junior standout scored 13 pts. in the Sailor’s 39-29 victory over the...
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Subdivision map DEERHORN: The end of a fifty-year tradition of teeing off within sight of their residences might be in play for homeowners along Madrone Street. When brothers Kenneth, Lloyd and Earl Omlid developed the McKenzie River Golf Course in 1961, they also created a number of 1/3 to 3/4 acre home lots that sold well. A changing demographic is changing the business model for recreation in the 21st Century. In their land use application to the Lane County Land Management Division, Rod and Sara Omlid noted that the number of new beginning...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie’s Varsity Basketball teams host two games at home this week. On Tuesday, February 4, Crow will visit with the Girls game scheduled for 5:30 pm. and the Boys at 7:00 pm. Lowell will arrive on Friday, February 7, with the Girls tipping off at 5:30 pm. and the Boys starting at 7:00 pm. The Eagles Varsity Wrestling team will travel to Oakridge, Wednesday, February 5, for a Dual Meet starting at 5:00 pm. Eagles Set To Honor Winter Senior Athletes McKenzie will honor its w...
Runners User fees are being questioned FINN ROCK: “We built the track for three main reason - for the school to use, for the community, and hopefully to do some things for economic development,” says George Letchworth, president of the governing board of the McKenzie Community Track & Field. Since its start in 2003 the group has constructed an eight-lane track with a Beynon surface, a discus ring and javelin runway, long and triple jumps, plus a pole vault and two shot put sectors on just under 20 acres. Soon, a newly constructed building wit...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The Varsity Basketball teams travel to Mohawk on Tuesday, January 28, with the Girls team scheduled for a 5:30 pm. tip-off and the Boys team starting at 7:00 pm. Both teams will host Eddyville Charter on Friday, January 31 with the Girls starting at 5:30 pm. and the Boys following at 7:00 pm. The Eagle Varsity Wrestling team travels on Wednesday, January 29, to compete in the Myrtle Point/Powers Dual Meet with the host, Oakland, and Crow. First match is scheduled for 5:00 pm. The team next travels to...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The Eagle Basketball teams travel to Siletz Valley Charter on Tuesday, January 21, with the Girls scheduled for a 5:30 pm. start followed by the Boys at 7:00 pm. Both teams are at home on Friday, January 24, versus Mapleton, with the Girls tipping off at 5:30 pm. and the Boys at 7:00 pm. Saturday, January 25, the two teams travel to Eddyville. The Girls are scheduled for a 3:00 pm. start and the Boys tip off at 4:30 pm. The Eagle Wrestling team is scheduled for a Dual Meet at Crow o...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Basket-ball programs are off this week and through the first of the year. Basketball picks up again on January 2 as both teams participate in the annual 1A Hoops Classic held at Portland Lutheran. The Varsity Wrestling program resumes on December 28 at the Myrtle Point Wrestling Tournament held on the South Coast. Eagle Ladies Earn Second League Victory Over Indians McKenzie easily defeated an over-matched Mohawk Varsity girls team last Wednesday, December 18, winning 69-4. The...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week Weather/road conditions will still dictate the status of the scheduled games this week. The Eagles Basketball Teams travel to Triangle Lake on Tuesday, December 10. The Varsity Boys will tip off at 5:30 pm. followed by the Varsity Girls starting at 7:00 pm. Thursday, Dec. 12, both Varsity Teams host Siletz Valley Charter, with the Boys scheduled for a 5:30 pm. start and the Girls at 7:00 pm. The following evening the Eagle Teams travel to Eddyville Charter, again with the Boys Team...
By Cliff Richardson Mt. West League Update The Mt. West League is alive and well in the OSAA State 1A Football Championships. Both Lowell and Triangle Lake advanced to the Semi-Final Round Friday night. The Triangle Lake Lakers upended previously undefeated and #2 ranked Dufur on the road 40-30. The win improved the #7 ranked Lakers to an overall season record of 10-1 while the Dufur Rangers ended their 2013 season at 11-1. Triangle Lake’s only loss was to the #1 ranked Lowell Red Devils and they will now face Imbler, 74-22 winners over T...
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By Cliff Richardson Watchmen Timely Win Sets Eagle Post-Season Time Out The Eagles had knowledge going in that the C.S. Lewis Academy was an opponent they dare not overlook. A scouting report made it quite clear that the Watchmen had an outstanding player in 6’2” senior player Mikaela Raudsepp. Raudsepp reputedly has a remarkable volleyball resume and is looking forward to playing Division 1 college ball on scholarship at Wichita State next season. What also was made clear was that the Watchmen set Raudsepp the majority time for her high, str...
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McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Football Team will host the Mohawk Indians on Friday, Oct. 25, with kickoff set at 7:00 pm. McKenzie will host the District 4 3A/2A/1A Cross Country Championships at Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track, in Finn Rock, on Sat., Oct. 26. The meet will feature a Boy’s and Girl’s Junior Varsity 5,000 m. race starting at 12:15 pm., followed by a Girl’s Varsity 5,000 m. race slated for a 1:00 pm. start and a Boy’s Varsity 5,000 m. race set to start at 1:45 pm. The McKenzie Varsity Volle...
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McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie’s Cross Country runners will travel to Elmira on Wed., Oct. 16, to participate in the Country Fair Classic. Varsity Girl’s race starts at 5:00 pm. and the Varsity Boy’s race starts at 5:30 pm. The Eagle’s Varsity Football Team hosts the Crow Cougars on Fri., Oct. 18 with kickoff slated for 7:00 pm. McKenzie’s Varsity Volleyball Team will travel to a neutral court in Bend on Monday, Oct. 21, for a scheduled three way non-league match with Condon/Wheeler at 3:00 pm. followed by a match wit...
Track logo By Pete Petty It was a great day at the track in Blue River last Saturday as runners and walkers took part in the McKenzie Harvest Run/Walk sponsored by the McKenzie Eagles Booster Club. The charity event was organized by Kitti Price for the benefit of the athletes in the McKenzie schools. Kitti, of course, was our mystery personality in last week’s “Who Am I?” The booster club is one of Kitti’s good causes and we in the community owe her a big thank-you for her many good deeds. Not only did the runners and walkers have excelle...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The Eagle Varsity Volleyball team will host the Mohawk Indians this Wed., Oct. 9 with a JV match scheduled to start at 4:30 pm., followed by the Varsity match at 6:00 pm. McKenzie will honor it’s Volleyball Seniors and their Parents at the event. The next afternoon, the Varsity Team will travel to Alsea to participate in a three-way match with the Wolverines and the Siletz Valley Warriors. The Eagles will match up with Siletz Valley, starting at 4:30 pm. McKenzie will play host Alsea in the second m...
By Cliff Richardson Photos by Corey Culp McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The Eagle Volleyball Team will host the Crow Cougars on Wednesday, Oct. 2 with a JV match commencing at 4:30 pm. and the Varsity match starting at 6:00 pm. McKenzie’s Cross Country Team travels to Bend on Friday to participate in the Oxford Classic. Start time for the 5K JV Boy’s/Girl’s Race is 12:30 pm., followed by the 5K Varsity Girl’s Race starting at 1:00 pm. and the 5K Varsity Boy’s Race starting at 1:30 pm. On Friday, Oct. 4, the Eagles host the Trian...
By Cliff Richardson Ayshia Seiler/Hiddleston Inc. Trip Triangle Lake McKenzie Jamboree McKenzie’s Ayshia Seiler provided her teammates the well-placed sets and the Eagles dynamic-duo Hiddleston hitting machine capitalized as the Visitors defeated the Triangle Lake Lakers on the road, 25-16, 21-25, 25-11, and 25-13. With the win, McKenzie’s Mt. West League record improved to 3-1 with a crucial road test the following evening, Thursday, Sept. 12 at Mapleton. The Sailors at the time were tied for first with Lowell at 4-0. Seiler recorded 37 ass...
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TRACK TALK Track building By Pete Petty Pictured here is the latest photo of construction at the track. The second story of the 3000 square foot building is on the way up. With electricity on site now, the framework may be complete by press time! This second floor of the new building will be used as a meeting space for the board of directors of the nonprofit MCTF organization and will also be available to other groups and organizations. It should prove to be an excellent complement to the facilities at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Field...
