McKenzie Sports Report

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The McKenzie Boys and Girls Varsity Basketball teams host Chiloquin on Tuesday, December 17. The Girls game tips off at 5:00 pm and the Boys start at 6:30 pm.

The McKenzie Athletic Department will host the McKenzie Winter Classic with the Glendale Girls playing against host McKenzie on Friday, December 20; game time is 5:30 pm. The Glendale/McKenzie Boys game will follow at 7:00 pm.

Saturday, December 21, the McKenzie Girls play Yoncalla at 1:00 pm and the Eagle Boys follow versus Yoncalla at 2:30 pm.

Tough Week For McKenzie Boys Basketball

Eagles Still Searching For First Victory

A couple of almost wins and a couple of not even close defeats marked the past busy week on the hardwoods for McKenzie Varsity Boys Head Coach Neil Barrett's Eagle team. And all contests were on the road.

First up was Riverside, WLWV Junior Varsity, up North in West Linn, on Monday, December 19. McKenzie gave it a good go, and almost had the opportunity to carve a notch, but unfortunately fell to the home Raptors, 56-58.

A couple of days recuperation and practice sessions, found the Eagles, on Thursday, December 12, over in the big city of Lowell and facing an old rival, the Red Devils. Once again, the boys in the Green and Gold fired up the Devils home court, playing tough and rough, but, once again, falling just short with a 57-59 defeat.

A short night and it was road trip all over, only this time, a long ride to the Southern Oregon Coast, as in Gold Beach Friday, December 13, where McKenzie toed up to the Panthers, who at the time were undefeated. And this time the Eagles fell with a swoop, 28-57, in the OSAA Endowment contest.

The next afternoon, Saturday, December 14, since they were in the general area, visited the Myrtle Point Bobcat squad and found those cats no friendlier than the last group, losing again big, 24-57.

McKenzie Girls Drop Three Last Week

The Eagle Girls Varsity Basketball team didn't find the going any better than their male counterparts last week. McKenzie invited the Sutherlin JV team to the Upper McKenzie Valley and the visitors, “thank you very much”, left smilin' with a 47-17 win under their belts. That game was played on Tuesday, December 10.

Thursday, the Eagle gals jumped on the team bus headed over to Lowell and got their “hats handed to them” by the host Red Devils, a 9-61 point shellacking.

With the latest loss, the Eagles are 1-4 on the new season and looking to add a couple to win column this week as they face Chiloquin, Glendale and Yoncalla on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, respectively.