Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Golfer The third annual Tokatee Scramble, a golf tournament benefiting the McKenzie River Medical Clinic, has room for some more teams. This year, the popular tournament takes place on Sunday, August 31, during Labor Day weekend. Tokatee Golf Club, on the McKenzie Hwy. in Rainbow, is hosting the tournament again this year. Registration fee is $100 per person, or $400 per four-person team, and includes an 18-hole round of golf, cart, range balls, lunch and beverage afterwards, and complimentary raffle tickets. The scramble format makes it easy...
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Boat & dragon entry Parade float By Pete Petty SISTERS: Volunteers from the McKenzie Community Track and the Chainsaw Art Festival teamed up to participate in the Sisters Rodeo Parade last Saturday and in doing so, made quite an impression on the parade judges. Their entry, a float featuring a vintage wooden drift boat with a carved dragon fishing on the river, took 2nd place honors in the judging. The intention of the group was to give the community track and our excellent facilities area-wide exposure, to promote the upcoming McKenzie River...
Parade entry takes second place Parade float...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Girl and Boy 2014 Athlete of the Year Makaila Hiddleston and Bailey Adams Eagle Seniors Makaila Hiddleston and Bailey Adams were honored with respective 2014 McKenzie Athlete of the Year Awards recently at the school’s annual Spring Academic and Athletic Awards ceremony. Hiddleston’s athletic accomplishments this year included 1st Team All-League selections in Volleyball and Basketball and a 7th place finish in the Shot Put at the OSAA Track and Field State Championships. Adams was selected 1st Team All-League in...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie High School will host its annual Spring Academic/Athletic Awards Program on Tuesday, June 3, 6:00 pm., in the Old Gymnasium. 2A/1A Special District 3 Baseball Update Monroe, the # 2 seed out of the SD 3 League easily dispatched the visiting Union/Cove baseball team representing the SD 7 League, winning the first round OSAA playoff game 20-2 on Wednesday, May 28. The Monroe Dragons fell behind early, allowing 1 run in the top of the 1st inning, but roared back, overwhelming...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie High School’s Varsity Spring Sports have concluded for the 2014 season. The annual Spring Sports Academic and Athletic Awards Ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, June 3 in the Old Gymnasium. Boomers Bounce Lowell (Eagles) Out of Post Season The Lowell/Mohawk/McKenzie varsity baseball team had reason to think their 2014 season might be extended with a berth in the OSAA State Baseball Championships. With Special District 3 League victories over Siletz Valley and Toledo on May...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie’s Varsity Track and Field teams and McKenzie Community Track and Field will co-host the 1A-Special District 5 Mt. West District Championships this Saturday, May 17. The event will be held at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track. Field events will start at 12:00 pm. and Run events will start at 2:00 pm. Mt. West teams competing are Alsea, Crow, Eddyville, Lowell, Mapleton, McKenzie, Mohawk, Siletz Valley, and Triangle Lake. Mt. West Athletes Look To Improve Top Ten S...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The Eagle Girls and Boys Track and Field teams travel to Regis High School in Stayton, near Salem, on Friday, May 9 to compete in the Regis Twilight Meet. Field events start at 3:00 pm. and Track events begin at 4:00 pm. Eagle Teams 14th at Sisters Rotary Invitational The McKenzie Boys and Girls Track and Field teams both finished 14th in their respective meets last Friday, May 2 at the Sisters Rotary Invitational Meet. The Eagle Girls team scored 10 points in the 17 school meet featuring teams from...
Named Big Sky Athlete of the Week Sarah Dean STANFORD, CA: Senior Sarah Dean (formerly Hanchett) set a near-50-second personal best running of 10,000 meters Sunday while competing at the Payton Jordan Invitational. The McKenzie High School graduate finished in 34:00.32, over 48 seconds better than the 34:49.18 she ran at the Stanford Invitational earlier this season. Dean’s time vaults her into the Big Sky lead in the women’s 10,000 meters this season, and ranks her in the top 30 nationally. Additionally, Dean now ranks 16th on the NCAA Wes...
Named Big Sky Athlete of the Week Sarah Dean...
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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...
