Baseball: The Rockets completed a perfect 10-0 conference season with a 5-2 victory at Orion!
Schwigen
• 2-3, 2 R, RBI, 2B
• 5.0 IP, 10 K, W
Mumma
• 2-3, RBI
• B. Brown: 2.0 scoreless innings in relief
Softball: The Rockets bounced back last night with a 4-2 victory at LaSalle-Peru!
Schlapkohl 1-3
Perkins 1-4
K Schlapkohl 1-3
Lowe 1-4, 2B
David 4-4, 2RBIs
Kelly 1-3, RBI
Feist 1-3
Lowe (W) 7IP 3H, 2ER, 3 BB, 5Ks
Final home game tonight vs Mendota!
Good Luck to Rockridge's first ever bass fishing team at the IHSA Regional in New Boston! The participants are Landon Thiem, Connor Jochum, Colton Reid, and Brayden Sprott!
What an honor to hand out 14 art awards last night! Congratulations 2026 seniors!
Results from yesterday 5/11:
Softball: Varsity fell to PND 2-1 and JV won 9-2.
Baseball: Lost to Macomb 3-1.
Softball: A late inning rally fell short as the Rockets fell 8-6 to United Township.
Schlapkohl 3-4, 3B, RBI
Perkins 3-4, SOLO HR, RBI
David 1-4, RBI
Lowe 4.2IP 6H, 1ER, BB, 5K
Schlapkohl 2.1IP, 4H, 2ER, BB, 1K
Baseball: The Rockets beat Rock Falls 11-1 on Military Appreciation Day at the Ridge!
Rocket Newsletter May 11 - May 17 https://canva.link/squ74duicl6bd5q
Senior final projects to Australian artist Nick Athanasiou of Skunk control visiting and teaching seniors a special project! Thank you Ben and QCARTS! Great last day for seniors!
Baseball: The Rockets are Conference Champions after their 6-0 defeat of Orion last night at the Ridge! Carsen Dekeyrel struck out 10 and held the Chargers to two hits.
Softball: The Rockets swept the night away winning both games of the doubleheader with Orion (14-6, 20-0)! Charley Perkins homered twice and Tatum Lowe also homered in the wins.
Senior Athlete Recognition Day will be held today at 12 pm in the auditorium. We will be honoring 11 Seniors who will be continuing their athletic careers at the college level. The event will be streamed using the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/@rockridgeschooldistrict5887
https://www.youtube.com/@rockridgeschooldistrict5887
2026 Art Senior Party🤩was a huge success regardless of almost all the chips disappearing before 4th hour😳🤩. Congratulations Class of 2026! I started teaching at RR with you and to see all of you
graduating warms my heart❤️🤩
Thank you to Karen Cabrera, AVP & Mortgage Lender from INB (Illinois National Bank), for speaking to the upperclassmen in Consumer Education about credit reports, credit scores, and mortgages! We appreciate you donating your time to educate RHS students!
Students debate what happens to the temperature of water when ice melts and then test it out.
What do you do when you wait for ice melt??
https://youtube.com/shorts/qV9dv6telgA?si=ldWaJsi6Axaw0gsT
What do you do when you wait for ice melt??
https://youtube.com/shorts/qV9dv6telgA?si=ldWaJsi6Axaw0gsT
Baseball: Rockridge 8, Annawan-Wethersfield 2
P. Downing: 1-3, 2B, 3 RBI
C. Schwigen : 2-3, 2B, RBI, BB
O Steele: 1-2, RBI
B. Oakes: 1-1, RBI, 2 BB
Ryan Oelke : 4 IP, 1 H, 9 K
Thanks to all the future Rockets that showed up!
Softball:Rockridge with the big win over Macomb 15-0
B Schlapkohl 2-4, 2B, RBI
Perkins 2-3, 2B, 3-run HR, 4-RBIs
Black 1-3, RBI
Lowe 2-3, 2B, 2-RBIs
David 2-3, 3-run HR, 3RBIs
Feist 1-1, RBI
Schlapkohl (w) 2IP, 2H, 2BB, 5K
Lowe (s) 2IP,
There is still time to register for Girls Basketball Camp! Orders must be in by May 8th to get a shirt. Please vist the page below to learn more about this opportunity!
https://www.rr300.org/o/ra/page/summer-camp-information
https://www.rr300.org/o/ra/page/summer-camp-information
More weather related and schedule changes:
Baseball and softball against Princeton has been canceled due to Princeton having to make up conference games this Friday 5/8/26. No Make up dates at this time.
JV Baseball will now play Annawan Wethersfield at home at 10 AM on Sat May 16th. JV Baseball will not be playing at Quincy on 5/16/26. Varsity Baseball is still on at Quincy for 5/16.
Weather related changes:
Softball will now play a DH against Orion on Thursday 5/7 at 4:30 pm at home.
Baseball will play at Orion on 5/13 at 4:30 pm. This will be varsity followed by JV. The game at A-Town on 5/13 has been moved to 5/22 and will be varsity only.