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By Cliff Richardson Harrisburg. Home of the Eagles and host of a gathering of the same Harrisburg was the 2000-01 pre-season Trico League favorite, long coached by Russ Mason and had forged a 5-1 Trico League record. The upstart Eagles of McKenzie, coached by rookie Head Coach Mike Wiley, were the other half of the gathering, and they traveled up the Willamette Valley carrying an identical 5-1 League record. One team would gain an important early season advantage, the other, earn an education. McKenzie took home the latter. The Eagles of Finn...
Eagles Are Great, We’re Going To State! To many of us in the McKenzie River Valley, this exclamation had become a frequent and somewhat anticipated rally cry following several of our high school sports seasons. Although our McKenzie High School Eagle teams have fallen on tougher times recently, even prior to the Co-Vid 19 outbreak and the Holiday Farm Fire, many are the memories of hard fought athletic battles and road trips all around the Great State of Oregon. What became the norm, however, was not at all the case in the earlier years of o...
River Stop By Dan Purkey Wednesday night, all is quiet; except the turn of the wheel, the number called and (to my personal surprise)...”BINGO”! It is Wacky Wednesday with $4 burgers and $2 well drinks at the River Stop Restaurant and Sports Bar at the Walterville Center! A young woman, born and raised in Southern California, caught the “McKenzie Fever” early by visiting relatives in Oregon. Heather Hernandez-Reja has also lived in Spain, Denmark and London (where she was the Senior Sales Manager of Barbican Center, the “largest arts and confer...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity 2018 Volleyball, Football, and Cross Country seasons have ended. Joseph Wins 2018 Six-Man Crossover Championship Joseph Overruns McKenzie 64-31 It might have been billed the 2018 Crossover Convocation Championship. A convocation is a gathering or flock of eagles, and the inaugural six-man football championship game featured the Joseph Eagles and the McKenzie Eagles. To be sure, the game announcer never got twisted around all night, the Eagles always had the ball. Speaking of...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Cross Country runners travel to Rogue River on Thursday, October 25, to participate in the Special District 4 3A, 2A/1A Cross Country Championships. The meet will be held at the Valley of the Rogue State Park. The McKenzie Varsity Football team travels to Madras on Saturday, October 27, to play Joseph in a East versus West six-man football Championship game. Kick off is scheduled for 7:00 pm. The McKenzie Varsity Volleyball team, barring unforeseen upsets, will host either Crosshill...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Cross Country runners will have the opportunity to compete at the 3A/2A/1A-SD4 District 4 Championships this Thursday, October 26. The District meet will be held at Lane Community College. Four 5,000 meter races will be run: The Girls Junior Varsity race starts at 3:00 pm., the Boys Junior Varsity race starts at 3:30 pm., the Girls Varsity race starts at 4:00 pm., and the Boys Varsity race starts at 4:30 pm. The Eagle Varsity Football team will travel to Mohawk on Friday, October 27, and...
McKenzie Varsity Sport Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Volley-ball Team will travel to Days Creek on Tuesday, October 17, to participate in a three-way match with Days Creek and Hosanna Christian. The Eagle team will play Hosanna Christian at 5:30 pm. and host Days Creek at 7:00 pm. The latter match will be an endowment game. McKenzie’s Boys Cross Coun-try team travels to Richardson Park at Fern Ridge Reservoir on Wednesday, October 18, to participate in the annual Country Fair Classic. The 5000-meter Boys Junior Varsity race starts at...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Volleyball team travels to Triangle Lake on Tuesday, October 3, for Mt. West League match starting at 7:00 pm. The Eagles host a MWL three-way match on Thursday, October 5. McKenzie plays Alsea at 4:00 pm and then plays Mohawk at 7:00 pm. Alsea and Mohawk will play the second match of the three-way, starting at 5:30 pm. The Eagle football team will have a bye this week, as Alsea has forfeited the remaining of its 2017 Football season. Mohawk Mustangs Ride Herd Over Eagles, 80-36...
Blackmore and Godwin vying for top times in America Track logo FINN ROCK: USA Track and Field Oregon has announced it will be holding Oregon championship races on the track at the 3,000m and 25,000m distances. The event is set to start at 9 a.m. on Sunday, September 10th, at McKenzie Community Track and Field in Finn Rock. The Oregon Track Club Masters is a major sponsor of the event. Both races will serve as the USATF Oregon Championships for men and women for open athletes (up through age 29), as well as sub-masters (age 30-39) and masters...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie’s Spring sports season has concluded and there are no activities scheduled. McKenzie High School will hold the 2017 Mother’s Tea on Friday, June 10, in the Old Gymnasium and beginning at 6:30 pm. The McKenzie High School Gradu-ation is scheduled for Saturday, June 11, at 11:00 am. Oregon State’s Casey Mitchell Enjoying One Heck Of A Ride! McKenzie Alum Casey Mitchell (Class of 2014) loves baseball! Just ask him next time you bump into him and he will tell you so. Mitchell played on the last...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The 2017 OSAA State 3A/2A/1A Track and Field Championships will be held on Thursday and Friday, May 18 and 19. Preliminaries will be held on Thursday and Finals will be held on Friday. Class 6A/5A/4A preliminaries will start on Friday, May 19 and Finals for those classifications will take place on Saturday, May 20. Track fans and supporters can access event times and entries at osaa.org. McKenzie Girls Second In District, On To State! McKenzie’s Varsity Girls Track and Field team finished second in t...
By Cliff Richardson McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week There are no McKenzie Varsity contests scheduled this week. Eagle Tracksters Out Of The Blocks At Oakridge Spikes, sprints, puts, heaves, throws, jumps, and leaps! High School Track and Field 2016 has arrived with the typical Oregon Spring weather of anything goes. It was an atypical Cascade Spring day, however, last Saturday, March 19, when McKenzie Head Track and Field Coach Duane Aanestad loaded his team on the bus, headed down the McKenzie River Valley and back up the Middle...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Girls Basketball Team travel to Elkton on Tuesday, February 23, to participate in the OSAA State 1A Basketball First Round playoffs. Game time is set for 6:00 pm. McKenzie Girls State Bound! Jorden Smith Leads Eagles Into State Playoffs When you choose a team captain, you expect that individual to exhibit maturity, skill and leadership qualities that inspire a team towards its collective goals. McKenzie Captain Jorden Smith embodied all of those worthy attributes at Central Linn...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Girls Basketball team will play the winner of a Mt. West League playoff game between the Mt. West League #4 seed, Triangle Lake and the #5 seed Alsea. Triangle Lake and Alsea are scheduled for a Wednesday, February 17, contest at Triangle Lake. The Eagles will meet the winner in a game scheduled for Saturday, February 20, 11:00 am. at Central Linn. The McKenzie Varsity Boys Basketball team is finished for the season. Oh, So Close! Siletz 41, McKenzie 39 The difference between...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Girls and Boys Basketball teams travel to Siletz on Tuesday, February 2. The Girls are scheduled for a 5:30 pm. start against Siletz Valley Early College Academy and the Boys will follow with a game scheduled for 7:00 pm. Both teams will host Alsea on Thursday, February 4. The Girls will play first at 5:30 pm. and the Boys will play the Alsea Junior Varsity at 7:00 pm. A cancer awareness fundraising event will be held in conjunction with the Alsea games (see details below). The McK...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Girls and Boys Basketball teams travel to Lowell on Tuesday, January 26. The Girls game is scheduled for a 5:30 pm. start and the Boys game follows with tip-off at 7:00 pm. Both Eagle Varsity teams host Mohawk on Friday, January 29. The Girls start at 5:30 pm. and the Boys will follow at 7:00 pm. The Coaches vs.å Cancer Game originally scheduled for January 29 has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 4, when the Eagles host Alsea. The Eagles will host Donkey Basketball on...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Basketball teams travel to Alsea on Tuesday, January 12. The Girls game is scheduled for a 5:30 pm. tip-off, followed by the Boys game, starting at 7:00 pm. Friday, January 15, the teams host Triangle Lake. The Girls start the evening with a 5:30 pm. start, again followed by the Boys at 7:00 pm. McKenzie Mauls Mohawk, 44-8 McKenzie moved into third place in the Mt. West League standings with a rout of the Mohawk Indians, at least temporarily. The Eagles, Tuesday, January 6, improve...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Girls and Boys Basketball teams both travel Monday, December 28, to Dufur to participate in the 1A Hoops Classic. The Girls team will play Hosanna Christian at 2:00 pm. The Boys team follows, also against Hosanna Christian, with the game slated for a 3:30 pm. start. Both teams will play on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 29 and 30, with opponent and time to be determined yet. Eagle Stats At Crane Tournament The McKenzie Girls 28-60 loss to McDermitt, Nevada on the opening day of th...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Athletic Department will hold its annual Fall Sports Awards ceremony this Tuesday, November 10, in the High School cafeteria. The event will start at 6:00 pm. and will honor the Eagle's 2015 Volleyball and Football athletes. Admission is free to all. There are no other McKenzie Varsity Sports contests scheduled this week. Eagles Voted to MWL All-League Football Teams McKenzie senior Drew Hamlow and juniors Chanse Hamlow and James Rimmer were voted by the Mt. West League South Division Head...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Volleyball team travels to Elkton on Wednesday, October 28, for a First Round OSAA State Volleyball Championship Match. Match time is set for 6:00 pm . Should the Eagles win the match on Wednesday, the team will play Saturday, October 31, in the Second Round of the playoffs, with opponent, site, and time to be determined by the Final OSAA Rankings of the team's still viable. McKenzie's Varsity Football team will host Alsea on Friday, October 30, in the last football game for both...
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September 28, 2015 I hope everyone had a great weekend. Our girls volleyball team picked up two league victories last week before hosting the RPI tournament over the weekend. Our beautiful campus was on display for seven visiting schools. It was a great day thanks to the help of so many volunteers. Our football team put up our most points of the season during our homecoming game but came up short against the Sailors. Thanks for all the support. *Special Note* Tuesdays volleyball match against Eddyville will be an OSAA Endowment game. Price of...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Volley-ball team hosts Siletz Valley on Tuesday, September 15. The match will start at 6:00 pm. The McKenzie Cross Country Teams host the EWEB Canal Run on Wednesday, September 16 with the race starting at 4:30 pm. The start of the race is located near the Johnson Creek Road in Leaburg. Further directions may be found on athletic.net or calling the McKenzie High School Office. The Eagle Varsity Volleyball team will travel to Alsea on Thursday, September 17 and the match time is...
Over the weekend our volleyball and football teamed traveled together to Gilchrist. While there we experienced great hospitality and sportsmanship from the Grizzlies. Our football team showed a valiant effort against a speedy Grizzly team. The volleyball team came back from two sets down and rallied to an amazing comeback victory. Our boys had the gym rocking in support of our girls. It was a great trip for all. This week marks the beginning of our Middle school football and volleyball as well as the start of our middle and high school Cross...
