@SOURaiders @souwbb

Saturday night and Sunday afternoon will wrap up the home games for the regular season for the SOU basketball teams. Incredibly, neither team has lost at home (Ashland High School). Their combined home record is 20-0. Not that the games haven’t been close. The women had to come from behind to beat Oregon Tech this past Tuesday. The men have turned nearly every game into a nail biter, and they rarely lead at half time.

The men should earn at least one home game in the Cascade Conference playoffs. They have to play conference-leading Northwest Christian on the road so achieving all home playoff games will take some work.

The women should have all home playoff games before the national tournament, where they will likely be a #2 seed.

Posted on February 12th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, joel spear, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Regular season home finale weekend

Seats will go fast. Get there early, or you may be turned away due to capacity issues. Grab a seat before someone from Klamath Falls takes yours. Game preview here.

Posted on February 9th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics. Comments Off on Tonight!

photo straight out of the camera

@SOURaiders @souwbb @ADurand25

I try to shoot so that I have to do as little editing after the fact as possible. The photo, above, needed some work.

Autumn Durand

The Raiders are now 21-1 after last night’s 111-33 victory. Tuesday night’s game (2/9/16) will be a big one against OIT in Ashland. The winner will be in first place in the Cascade Conference. The crowd will be huge. Get there early if you want a seat (and a free t-shirt).

Posted on February 7th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: autumn durand, basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, photography, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Before and after

Posted on February 6th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, justin martin, Raider Athletics. Comments Off on Basketball tonight

#playlikeagirl @souashland @SOURaiders @souwbb @CarlyMeister34

Posted on February 2nd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Play Like a Girl

Clay Sierra

@SOURaiders @SOUWrestling @souwbb

Welcome to installment #22 in “The Whole Picture” in which I present the uncropped, higher resolution versions of photos that SOURaiders.com has published. For prior editions click here. For higher resolution click on the photo before saving. As always, these are best viewed on a big screen rather than a cell phone.

Gary Melvin

Sydney Mullings

Madelynn McIlwain and Kal Holliday

Justin Martin

Some of you may have found your way here through the link on souraiders.com. I have had several people email me asking questions about buying prints or about finding all of my photos for a certain sport.

The photos I post here are a small fraction of the photos I actually have. If you would like to print any of the photos on this blog, you are welcome to do so at no charge. Be sure to click on the photo to get to the higher resolution size which will print with more quality. If you want to use them on the web (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland in the description of the photo. If you are using the photo in a newspaper or magazine, please credit “Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo”.

If you would like me to search through all of my photos and send you photos of the particular athlete you are looking for I charge a reasonable fee for the time it takes me to find all of those photos and to process them for you. I do not normally sell prints. I email you the high quality electronic files in .jpg format, and you can do the printing and framing yourself through a local or online service. My email is on this page or you can comment (leave a reply) to a blog entry to communicate.

To find all of my photos for a particular sport, use the following links. Click on “Older Entries” near the bottom-left of each page to view more photos.
football
basketball
softball
volleyball
soccer
wrestling
track and field

Posted on January 31st, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, clay sierra, gary melvin, justin martin, Kal Holliday, Madelynn McIlwain, Raider Athletics, sports photography, Sydney Mullings, the whole picture, wrestling. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 22)

Jordan West

@SOURaiders

Massey gave the Raiders just a 35% chance of winning tonight’s game at Warner Pacific, but the Raiders are perfect in close games, and tonight was no exception. The final score was 78-76. More details here.

Posted on January 29th, 2016 under people. Tags: basketball, jordan west, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Men’s basketball now 9 for 9 in close games

Autumn Durand

@SOURaiders @souwbb @ADurand25

Trailing by 19 early, Raiders still earn 19th victory of the season. Details here.

Posted on January 29th, 2016 under people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on 19-1

Ashley Claussen

@SOURaiders @souwbb @joelspear

Ashley Claussen was named the Cascade Conference “Player of the Week” for her performance this past weekend. Joel Spear received honorable mention.

Joel Spear

Posted on January 25th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, joel spear, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Players of the Week