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Shea Scott
Last night the rankings locked for the OSAA 5A baseball playoffs. Ashland High School came it at #7 in the state and in third place in the Midwestern League. This means the Grizz will have a home game on Friday (5/20/16) against the sixth place team from Mid-Willamette (Lebanon, ranked #28 in the state). Since the Grizzlies finished in the top eight, a win over Lebanon will get them another home game on May 25.
Ashland, Oregon and Grizzly Peak looking from the 9th floor of the Ashland Springs Hotel
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Ashland home near Lithia Park
This house on the edge of Lithia Park reminds me a bit of the one in the movie Coraline. That one is pink though.
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Kayleen Smith – 1st Team
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The 10-team Cascade Conference announced the conference awards for softball this morning. The Conference Champion Raiders earned a large chunk of them. Details here.
Jessica Pistole – Coach of the Year
Kelsey Randall – Gold Glove and 1st Team
Victoria Mackey – 2nd Team
Alexa Gonzalez – Gold Glove
Tyler Burke – Honorable Mention
Sydney White – 1st Team
Red Queen Trail (approaching the intersection with Road 2060, AKA Ashland Loop Road)
There’s a new trail in town. The Red Queen has been built over the past few weeks and is now open and ready for foot traffic. The trail runs from a couple intersections with Bandersnatch or Jub Jub up to the intersection of Caterpillar crossing the Ashland Loop Road. There aren’t any significant view or overlook areas, but it is a nice trail in the watershed without any bikes.
One way to get there is to park near the water tank where Terrace and Ashland Loop intersect. Just past the water tank on Ashland Loop an unmarked trail begins going uphill. This turns into Red Queen (and is marked) for a bit, before becoming Bandersnatch, and then reverting to Red Queen (again marked as Red Queen). If you are on Caterpillar and want to go down Red Queen look for the unmarked trails heading toward Reeder Reservoir on the left side of Ashland Loop as you are heading down. The left one is for bikes (Jabberwocky) and the right one (not marked as Red Queen but with an indication that is only for walkers and horses) is Red Queen.
Red Queen flower
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After a near miss on day one, Southern Oregon went 2-0 on day two to earn a Sunday game.
The Raiders beat Corban, with an offensive explosion (16-5), for the first time this year. The other four SOU-Corban games weren’t nearly as important as this one so their timing was good.
If SOU can get by Great Falls Sunday morning (11 a.m. start), they will earn a trip to Regionals. They will then need to beat Eastern Oregon twice to win the tournament. It seems a bit unfair that the Raiders will have to win five games to win the tournament while EOU will only need to win four (and Eastern didn’t have to play Oregon Tech–a team they didn’t beat all season), especially since SOU won the conference and was the #1 seed, but, unfortunately, that’s the nature of things.
Alexa Gonzalez
Aaliyah Oliver
2016 SOU softball team
Abigail Lund
Amelia Hensler
