Ashland sunrise

Several days ago the sky looked rather bland as I got out of the shower. A minute later it looked like this so I took a quick photo. Within 30 seconds it looked like nothing special again.

March 1st, 2014 | Tags: Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D600, sunrise | Category: nature, only in ashland | Comments Off on Don’t blink or you’ll miss it

Southern Oregon University Women’s Basketball
Allison Gida

The SOU Women’s Basketball Team just beat the #1 seed to move on to the finals in the Cascade Conference Championships.

Allison Gida scored 20 points, had 10 rebounds, and 4 assists. Carly Meister was even more impressive with 24 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists.

February 28th, 2014 | Tags: basketball, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography | Category: people | Comments Off on Raiders upset Mountaineers 80-62!

SOU Women’s Basketball
Carly Meister

Allison Gida and Carly Meister are scoring often for the Raiders early in this playoff game. The EOU site provides continuous updates, almost as good as a video feed or a radio broadcast.

30-28, SOU leads…

February 28th, 2014 | Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography | Category: people | Comments Off on SOU vs EOU action

SOU Women’s Basketball
Ashley Claussen

With Tuesday’s victory over Evergreen in Ashland, the Southern Oregon University Women’s Basketball Team earned the right to take on the #1 seed (Eastern) in the conference. The problem is that Eastern Oregon has a league best 12-1 home record. The good news is that SOU has a league best 10 wins on the road. It’s time for an upset in SOU’s favor.

February 28th, 2014 | Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography | Category: people | Comments Off on SOU women face tough challenge on the road this evening

Georgia Williams
Ashland High School Volleyball

I’m not sure exactly why, but fairly consistently for the past few months my prior blog entry featuring Georgia has been receiving more hits than any other page on the blog. So here is another photo of her playing volleyball. She also plays basketball for Ashland High School.

February 27th, 2014 | Tags: ashland high school, georgia williams, sports photography, volleyball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Georgia Williams

This past Sunday saw another tournament championship for the Siskiyou Volleyball Club 16U (Alan) Team. That’s the third or fourth championship for the team for the short club season. Alan’s team went 12-1 in individual games on the day in the 23-team tournament, and they had to make it past an 18U team in the final match to secure the victory.

February 26th, 2014 | Tags: ellie, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, sports photography, volleyball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on 2/23 – Siskiyou VC Tournament Champions

SOU Men’s Basketball against Northwest Christian
Tim Weber to Jordan West

Thanks to last weekend’s nightmare road trip for the Southern Oregon Men’s Basketball Team, they have dropped out of the rankings for the first time this year. A win this Wednesday night (against Northwest Christian on 2/27/14) won’t be enough, but it will be a start. They will also need to win a couple of road playoff games after winning on Wednesday to make it to the NAIA Championship Tournament.

February 25th, 2014 | Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography | Category: only in ashland | Comments Off on The SOU Men’s Basketball Team faces three, must-win games

Tyler Baumgartner dives back into first ahead of the throw from Andrew Moore to Danny Hayes

The Oregon Ducks play their first game of the season in Eugene at 6 p.m. today. I’m getting the itch to head up the highway to catch a game or two. It’s been too long since I’ve last seen live baseball.

The first baseman in today’s photo, Danny Hayes of the OSU Beavers, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox. The pitcher, Andrew Moore, was only a freshman when I took this, and in addition to winning the Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Year Award, he was also named to the Baseball America All-America First Team.

February 25th, 2014 | Tags: baseball, eugene, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, sports photography, UofO | Category: outside of ashland, people | Comments Off on Ducks begin home games for 2014 baseball season tonight

Allison Gida hugs her coach (Lynn Kennedy) on Senior Night

Ashland High School graduate Allison Gida helped lead the Southern Oregon University Raiders to two road victories over Warner Pacific and Concordia this past weekend. She averaged 21 points. She also tied the SOU record with 9 steals and had a career high 15 rebounds.

February 24th, 2014 | Tags: basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Ashland’s Allison Gida wins Player of the Week Award (again)