Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Middle School Girls Basketball team travels to Crow on Monday, December 6, for a 4:30 pm tip-off. The team will host Siltetz, on Wednesday, December 8, game time also set at 4:30 pm. And Then, Fifty And Sixty The Fall of 1971 on the McKenzie had all the feel of another State Championship opportunity in the offing. The Eagles, led by Head Coach Wade Thomas, had run the table in 1969, finishing that outstanding season 11-0 to bring home McKenzie’s first Football State Championship. The next s...
McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week There are no McKenzie Athletic events scheduled this week. Remember Again? Do you recall the Fall of 1991? Maybe you tagged a nice buck or hooked and boated a fat salmon. Perhaps the vibrant autumn colors bordered your photo of the Three Sisters on a brisk early morning hike. Fall season in the McKenzie Valley always offers opportunities for memorable moments. The Fall, thirty years back, was one to remember for McKenzie High. The Eagle Boys Cross Country team coached by Head Coach Jeff Sherman ran away with...
McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week McKenzie Middle School Girls Basketball will travel to Eddyville on Wednesday, November 10, for a game scheduled for a 4:30 pm tip-off. The McKenzie Athletic Department will host its annual Fall Sports Awards on Wednesday, November 10, in the High School Cafeteria, at 6:00 pm. The Eagle Middle School Girls Basketball team will host Triangle Lake on Monday, November 15, and that game will start at 4:30 pm. North Douglas Claims Class 1A Volleyball Title North Douglas traveled over the Cascade Mountain Range,...
McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Middle School Volleyball team travels to Mapleton on Wednesday, October 20. Match time is set for 4:30 pm. The Eagle team hosts Triangle Lake on Monday, October 25, and that match starts at 4:30 pm. McKenzie Middle School Cross Country Results The Eagle Middle School Cross Country teams traveled last Thursday, October 14, to sunny Corvallis to participate in the NW Middle School XC Showdown, held at Avery Park. Eagle sixth grade runner, Claire Weiss, finished 20th out of 157 runners in the Girls...
McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Middle School Volleyball team hosts Siletz on Wednesday, October 13, with match time set for 4:30 pm. The Eagle's Middle School Football team follows on the same day, kicking off against Siletz at 5:00 pm. The McKenzie Middle School teams travel to Avery Park in Corvallis on Thursday, October 14, to participate in the Northwest Middle School XC Showdown. The MS Girls 3,000 meter race starts at 3:30 pm and the MS Boys 3,000 m. event follows with a...
McKenzie Athletic Director Fred Heins announced the cancellation of the Eagle’s Varsity Volleyball season this week and the probability that Varsity Football will also not occur. Lack of student/athletes showing up for opening practices and no coaches applying for the Varsity and Middle School Volleyball Coaching positions were the primary reasons for the cancellation of the Volleyball season. Thus far, just four students have turned out for volleyball and Heins stated a minimum of eight would be required to participate in the Mountain West L...
Levi Lockart and Trent Peek Grab Third Place Finishes At Outback Invitational McKenzie Track and Field athletes Levi Lockart and Trent Peek each brought home third place finishes earned Friday, May 14, at the Outback Invitational Track Meet, sponsored by North Lake High School. Lockart set a personal record in the Shot Put, tossing the iron ball 33-04.00 ft., earning a third place finish behind LaPine's Stephen Machin, who had the winning throw of 47-02.00 ft. Eagle teammate Cody Moralas...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Girls and Boys Track and Field teams travel to North Lake High School this Friday, May 14 to compete in the Outback Invitational. Field events start at 11:00 am and track events will start at 12:30 pm. Levi Lockart Throws For Second Place At Mapleton McKenzie freshman Levi Lockart took second place in the Discus event last Wednesday, May 5, at the Mapleton May Meet. Lockart led his Eagle teammates to a 5th place finish in the six-team Boys meet. Triangle Lake won the day with 139...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Boys and Girls Track and Field Teams travel to Mapleton on Wednesday, May 5, to participate in the Mapleton May Meet. Field events at the Mapleton Track will start at 4:00 pm and track events start at 4:30 pm. Teams scheduled for the Meet are Crow, Elkton, Mapleton, Mohawk, Riddle, Siletz Valley, Triangle Lake and McKenzie. Eagle Boys Finish Second, Girls Third At Sisters Track Meet The McKenzie Boys Track and Field team finished second to host Sisters last Friday, April 30, and th...
It has been far too long! The Virus and the Holiday Farm Fire 2020 coupled to box up and shelve McKenzie student/athletes and their opportunities to compete since last Spring (2020). Restrictions enacted in response to the Virus pandemic by Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and mandated by Oregon Governor Kate Brown canceled, then reorganized high school athletics into shortened, displaced seasons this Spring. The student/athletes of McKen-zie...
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Mark Twain. Twain’s insightful adage well describes the team first year McKenzie Head Coach Mike Wiley inherited in 2000-01. Long time (22 seasons at that time) Eagle Head Coach Galen Scrivner decided to hand the reins of the McKenzie Boys Basketball team over to one of his past players. Indeed, Coach Wiley had played for ‘Coach Scriv’ back in the late 70’s, graduating in 1980. Scrivner didn’t step aside and leave an empty cupboard for his protég&eac...
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...
