Mt. Hood from Trillium Lake
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Happy birthday, Makayla Hoyt!
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Ashland Children’s Halloween Parade
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Raiders up 1-0 on #1 team
Maddie Casey scored early for the Raiders who lead in the first half
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Follow along here.
Raiders up to #15 on Massey, have 30% chance of beating #1 today
Ruth Hegstad
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Game time is 11 a.m., and, although the coaches give impossible odds, Massey says the Raiders have a decent chance of staying alive.
When will the SOU women’s soccer team’s season end? Not today.
Sarah Mauk scored the first goal for SOU in the Raiders’ 2-0 victory
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Details here.
Baylee Touey had the second goal
Massey or Coaches?
@YotesFootball @BakerU_Football #NAIAFootball @FConference #PlayNAIA @NAIA #MasseyRatings @AddisonWhitham @MonTechFootball @UMWFootball
The NAIA operates the football postseason in a messed up way, as I’ve pointed out many times. This is the time of year when one can very objectively test whether the system (of having coaches do the rankings which determine the postseason) is flawed or whether a better system could be put in place (such as an objective, computer ranking, based on actual results, strength of schedule, etc. like Massey Ratings).
I’ve shown, in prior years, that Massey does a much better job of predicting which team is better and how the coaches have caused superior teams from being either excluded from the playoffs altogether or having to travel to an inferior opponent’s location.
So let’s see a couple predictions before tomorrow’s games even begin.
The coaches are sending their #16 (Ottawa) to play at their #5 (College of Idaho). A #16 at a #5 in football sounds like a 3-10 point victory for the home team, correct? Not according to Massey who sees it not as #16 at #5 but as #30 at #1. Big difference as Massey has the Yotes winning by 32 points!
The coaches are sending their #15 (Baker) to play at their #3 (Kansas Wesleyan). Sounds like another 3-10 point victory for the home team, correct? Not according to Massey (who actually has Baker even lower than the coaches at #17) who predicts a Baker victory by 3.
Massey also predicts that Montana Tech and Montana Western could beat 14 of the coaches’ playoff teams at home and 11 of them on the road. However, neither team is even in the NAIA football playoffs thanks to the way the playoff teams are selected…
Umbrella Falls
You can find Umbrella Falls on the south side of Mt. Hood.
Men’s wrestling tomorrow night in Ashland
Jacky Hawkins and Matt Peterson
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Wrestling doubleheader on Thursday evening. Opponents are Corban at 5 and Simpson at 7.
Fruitless Mulberry ‘Kingan’ on SOU campus
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I missed the peak fall colors on campus this year as I was in Mexico. However, this tree, between Central Hall and Churchill Hall, goes a little later than the rest.