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Bicycle kick
Gonzalo Garcia
@G11Gonzo @SOURaiders
This didn’t come out as good as I wanted, but one of these days I will capture a bicycle kick in all of its glory.
SOU’s soccer teams are on the road this weekend. They will return to playing in Ashland on October 7.
number 9, number 9…
Marcus Montano
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football #NAIAFootball
In one of the more boring and predictable polls in recent history, the NAIA football coaches left things largely unchanged from last week.
Once again, they stupidly dropped a team for losing to a higher-ranked team on the road. This time Morningside dropped from #2 to #6 for their defeat to perhaps the best NCAA DIII football program. Morningside didn’t deserve to be #2 anyway, but the voting coaches are still lame.
Don’t expect much movement next week either. #1 plays #2 with the probable loser (#2 Saint Francis) likely ending up as something like #5 since the coaches like to penalize teams for playing good teams.
Players of the Week
Emma Gasman
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @LMcGowne @MegannMcArthur @SOU_Football @the_reyvega
Details here.
Megan McArthur
Lauren McGowne
Megan Smith
Note that Jessa Perkinson received honorable mention for women’s golf. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of Jessa golfing. There are two reasons for this. The first is that Jessa isn’t on SOU’s golf team. The second is that SOU doesn’t have a golf team! 🙂
Rey Vega was the Frontier Conference Offensive Player of the Week
Happy Birthday Melvin Mason
Melvin Mason
@Sectionchamp2
Raiders up to #3 in new Massey Ratings
With the Raiders big road win yesterday in Montana, Massey has bumped Southern Oregon up in the computer rankings to #3. SOU will play Massey’s #12, #11, and #9 over the next three weeks. Two of those games are at home in Ashland. Massey has the Raiders as at least 7 point favorites in each contest.
The coaches’ poll comes out tomorrow. Don’t look for any major changes in the top nine from the coaches. The coaches don’t tend to move teams up unless the team in front of them lost. It will be interesting to see what they do with #2 Morningside. The Raiders were punished in the poll for losing to NCAA DI UC Davis, even though the Raiders accumulated more yards than Davis. Yesterday Morningside lost to an NCAA DIII team (Wisconsin-Whitewater) by two touchdowns. Massey says that UC Davis could beat Wisconsin-Whitewater by a touchdown. Will the coaches drop Morningside as much as they dropped the Raiders? I doubt it. Look for Morningside to slip barely out of the top five and the Raiders to still be at #9.
SOU beats Carroll 34-14
Rey Vega
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @the_reyvega
Rey Vega ran for 157 yards on just 14 carries, a 94-yard run making up much of that total. He also caught 3 passes for another 87 yards.
Triple-header Saturday
Carlos Magana
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @EmmaRyan_4 @kyliecakes18
Men’s soccer at 2.
Kylie Moltzen
Women’s soccer at 4.
Emma Ryan with the pancake dig
Volleyball at 8.