McKenzie Sports Report

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The Eagle Varsity Volleyball team travels to Siletz on Tuesday, October 10, for a match with Siletz Valley. The start time is 6:00 pm.

The McKenzie team hosts Triangle Lake (last home, regular season match) on Thursday, October 12, with a 6:00 pm start.

The Eagle team will travel to Alsea on Monday, October 16, 6:00 pm start, for its last regular season road trip.

The McKenzie Cross Country Teams travel to Lebanon on Wednesday, October 11, to participate in the Lebanon XC meet. The meet will be held at Seven Oak Middle School with the Varsity Girls 5,000 meters race starting at 4:00 pm and the Varsity Boys 5,000 meters contest beginning at 4:45 pm.

The Eagle Varsity Six-man football team travels to Newberg on Friday, October 13 for a 7:00 pm kickoff versus C.S. Lewis Academy. The football game will be held on the campus of George Fox University.

Eagle Teams In Action This Past Week

The McKenzie Six-man Varsity football team hosted the Mohawk Mustangs on Friday, September 28, in a non-league game. Mohawk originally intended to play eight-man football this season, but due to low player numbers, decided to drop down to six-man.

Because the Mustangs decided late to make the change, they are playing as an independent team, not affiliated with a league, and are, therefore, not eligible to play post-season. That doesn’t mean, however, that the Mustangs can’t play the game, and just to prove their point, the boys from over on the Mohawk downed their Eagle rivals, 26-14, which earned the Mustangs their first season victory.

Last week, on Friday, October 6, McKenzie welcomed the Triangle Lake Lakers to Wade Thomas Field for a Special District 2 North League game. The Lakers evidently liked where they landed and their game plan worked to perfection, as they sailed to a 45-0 victory over their Eagle hosts. Triangle Lake improved to 3-2 on the season and McKenzie dropped to 0-5.

The McKenzie Varsity Volleyball team notched its second victory of the season last Saturday, October 7, with a 3-0 match win over Mannahouse Academy, Eugene. The Eagles took set one, 25-3, set two, 25-6, and set three, 25-12.

Later in the day at the same gym, the gals from McKenzie dropped a match to Mohawk, losing the first set 25-8, the second set 25-2, and the third set 25-15. The Eagle team is currently 2-12 on the season.

The McKenzie Varsity Cross Country teams competed in the Stayton Regis Invitational on Thursday, October 5. In the Girls 5,000 meter race, Eagle sophomore Myra Dion finished 42nd out of 64 runners, with a time of 26:27.8 minutes. Sophie Schoolmeester of Banks posted the winning time of 20:17.5 min.. McKenzie sophomore Will Meister placed 79th out of a field of 137 runners with a 5,000-meter finish time of 21:48.0 min. Amin Diani of Banks won the Boys' race with a finish time of 17:17.1 min.

Later that same week, on Saturday, October 7, Dion ran a 5,000-meter race at the Paul Mariman Invitational held at Philomath. The Eagle runner finished 66th in the Girls Varsity race which featured 83 athletes. Dion’s finish time was 27:33.7 min.