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Happy birthday, Ayla Davies!

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Ayla Davies receives her Softball Athlete of the Year Award from Asher Tatsumi @ 2024-2025 SOU All-Sports Awards

Posted on June 22nd, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Asher Tatsumi, Ayla Davies, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics, softball, Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 DI III VXD Lens. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Ayla Davies!

2025 NAIA Softball All-Americans

Freshman Ayla Davies (2025 NAIA Pitcher of the Year) broke many SOU pitching records including Ks in a year (by over 100!)

Details here.

Sarah Kerling (1st Team All American) hit .445 with six triples and won her third gold glove during her senior season

Kailer Fulton (2nd Team All American) hit .419 and went for 39 stolen bases in her senior season without committing an error in left field

Posted on June 4th, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ayla Davies, Kailer Fulton, Raider Athletics, sarah kerling, softball. Comments Off on 2025 NAIA Softball All-Americans

MVP and All-Tournament

MVP Ayla Davies

2025 NAIA Softball World Series All-Tournament Sarah Kerling

2025 NAIA Softball World Series All-Tournament Brooke Nordahl

Posted on May 29th, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ayla Davies, Brooke Nordahl, Raider Athletics, sarah kerling, softball. Comments Off on MVP and All-Tournament

What a day!

Freshman phenom Ayla Davies

Not only did the Raiders win all three of their must-win games today, but take a look at the combined scores of those games (against the next best teams in the NAIA I should point out) — 17-0.

Ayla Davies went 3-0 today, pitching in 13 innings total. She struck out 19 batters and gave up zero runs!

Weather permitting, SOU will go for their fourth consecutive odd-year national championship tomorrow morning starting at 7 a.m. PT. See you at Oak Tree for breakfast.

Posted on May 28th, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ayla Davies, Raider Athletics, softball. Comments Off on What a day!

World Series bound

2025 SOU Softball Team

Details here.

Massey Ratings did a bit better than the coaches, sending 5 of Massey’s Top 10 to Georgia compared to the coaches getting only 4. Also Massey’s top two are going and the coaches top two aren’t.

The softball rankings according to Massey

Eastern Oregon is the team getting screwed as Massey would have them as the #3 seed. As the coaches’ #7, they have to play an extra game (along with #s 8-10).

2025 NAIA Softball National Championship bracket

Posted on May 15th, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ayla Davies, Raider Athletics, softball. Comments Off on World Series bound

One game away…

Kierstin Grotewiel receiving one of Ayla Davies 14 strikeouts (in 7 innings) earlier this week

#1 seed SOU needs just one win tomorrow to be one of the 10 teams to advance to the 2025 NAIA Softball World Series in Georgia. Many of the other #1 seeds will not be there.

The NAIA screwed up and made Eastern Oregon University a #2 seed. Massey Ratings (below) had Eastern as #7 in the country so they should have been a #1 seed. They got through to the World Series. Northwestern was a #1 seed according to the NAIA even though Massey didn’t have them in the top 15. Needless to say, they aren’t going to Georgia. There are some other examples of Massey being more accurate than the biased coaches.

Several games are still to play tomorrow so a couple more teams will be Xed out on the list below.