6-photo photomerge of the Ed Moshofsky Sports Center before day two of the 2016 Oregon Matt Hartner Memorial Classic (January, Eugene)

We just got back from three days of volleyball. The Rogue Valley Volleyball Club 18U team came in 38th place out of 108 teams. They finished with a 6-2 record, losing both of their games in three sets. In other words, they beat everyone they faced at least once. Given the original rankings, Rogue Valley couldn’t have finished higher than 29th place, even if they won all their games, so I guess you could say they came in 9th place.

January 18th, 2016 | Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, eugene, Nikon D750, photoshop photomerge, volleyball | Category: outside of ashland | Comments Off on The Mo Center

Three days of continuous volleyball begins now in Eugene at the Oregon Matt Hartner Memorial Classic. Ellie’s 18U Rogue Valley Volleyball Club team should be pretty good.

January 16th, 2016 | Tags: ellie, volleyball | Category: outside of ashland, people | Comments Off on Volleyball weekend

Toria Bradford

@SOURaiders @souwbb @toriabradford23

The Raiders continued their winning ways tonight against College of Idaho. They are now 16-0. The only team that may have a decent chance of stopping them is Eastern Oregon University in La Grande on Saturday night. A win for the Raiders on 1/16/16, and what became a possibility after the Warner Pacific blowout a couple weeks ago will become a probability, a 27-0 regular season.

No conference team has played the Raiders very tough yet, with only EOU remaining. The Raiders will get Oregon Tech and EOU at home during the second half of the regular season.

January 15th, 2016 | Tags: basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography | Category: people | Comments Off on Raider domination

@IdesofgeminI @nanotear @OfficialNeurot

Six months ago today, this happened.

January 15th, 2016 | Tags: club 66, concert photography, ides of gemini, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D750 | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Sera Timms’ boots

WEEED

A shot from last week’s show.

January 14th, 2016 | Tags: club 66, concert photography, Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750, weeed | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Weeed @ Club 66

Today’s photo is from this morning. The whole town was in shadow, but Grizzly Peak was glowing.

January 13th, 2016 | Tags: clouds, grizzly peak, mountains, Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750, snow, sunrise, winter | Category: nature, only in ashland | Comments Off on Grizzly Peak Sunrise

Courtney Setzer

@courtney_setzer @SOURaiders @souwbb

The new coaches poll has the last undefeated team in the #8 spot (up from #12 last week).

Here is where unbiased Massey Ratings have the 15-0 Raiders, #6:

Massey Ratings as of 1/12/16

A few things to note:

– Massey shows the Raiders with one loss since Massey counted the exhibition game against San Jose State (an NCAA D-I opponent).
– The Raiders need to get to a top four spot in the coaches poll by the middle of March in order to be one of the four #1 seeds in the national tournament. (12 more wins should get them there.)
– SOU’s strength of schedule (SoS) isn’t nearly as high as the other top 10 teams according to Massey. Concordia’s departure to NCAA D2 (and being replaced by 0-8 Walla Walla and 1-7 Multnomah in the Cascade Conference) isn’t helping.

January 12th, 2016 | Tags: basketball, Courtney Setzer, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on SOU women’s basketball up to #8 in new poll

Aspen Abbott and Jessie Rozario

@SOURaiders @JessieRozario @SOUTrackXC @runaspenrun

The schedule for the upcoming season can be found here. Your only chance to see college level athletes compete in Ashland is between April 21 and 23 in 2016.

January 11th, 2016 | Tags: aspen abbott, jessie rozario, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography, track and field | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on 2016 SOU Track & Field Schedule

Autumn Durand

@SOURaiders @souwbb @ADurand25

Today’s final score was 115-40 over Walla Walla. Next weekend the Raiders travel to College of Idaho and Eastern Oregon. Massey thinks the Eastern Oregon University game will be the last decent chance a team has to beat Southern Oregon in the regular season. Even so, Massey gives SOU a 66% chance of victory and predicts a win for the Raiders by 5 points.

January 10th, 2016 | Tags: basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography | Category: people | Comments Off on Raider women go to 15-0 with another blowout win