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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.
Southern Oregon University Women’s Basketball
Allison Gida
Final score was 97-81. Thanks to losses by College of Idaho and Northwest, the Lady Raiders will be hosting a Cascade Conference quarterfinals game on Tuesday night (probably 7 p.m.) in Ashland as the women’s basketball team can’t finish lower than 4th place even if they don’t win tomorrow night.
SOU Women’s Basketball
Carly Meister
The Raiders are currently tied for fourth place with two games to go. They are just one game out of second place and just one game out of sixth place! The top four team will host the first round of the Cascade Conference Playoffs which begin next week. Tonight they face Warner Pacific at 5:30 in Portland. The playoff picture will clear up after tomorrow night’s games.
SOU Men’s Basketball
Dex Daum
SOU’s Men’s Basketball Team has moved up a notch before their last two road games of the year. Currently sitting in 2nd place in the conference, a sweep this weekend will result in two home games for the conference playoffs.
SOU Women’s Basketball
Brenna Anderson
Saturday night will be a big game for the Lady Raiders as they head to Klamath Falls to face an OIT team with an identical conference record as their own (10-5). The winner will be in second place and the loser will not. Second place means you will host two playoff games (assuming you win the first playoff game). Third and fourth places offer no such guarantee.
SOU Men’s Basketball vs OIT
Jeff Bush (Southern Oregon University’s All-Time Assist Leader)
For the first time in many weeks, the SOU Men’s Basketball Team is moving up, instead of down, in the national rankings. This week they are checking in at #15 before their weekend visit over the Cascade Mountain Range to Klamath Falls to take on Oregon Tech (who they have already defeated twice this season).
SOU Men’s Basketball
Eric Thompson
This was Eric’s fifth time winning the award. His 38 points on Friday were enough to do it as he had a below average (for him) showing on Saturday. The team did win both games though.
SOU Men’s Basketball Senior Night with Coach Brian McDermott and David Sturner’s family
Last night was the last regular season home basketball games at SOU. Since both teams won there is a good chance that there will be at least one home game in the Cascade Conference Playoffs. They still have three games to go on the road before we know for sure.
Due to it being the possible final performances in front of the home crowd, it was also senior night. Two women and five men were honored. The men were given poster boards with a bunch of my photos on them. David Sturner was checking out the pics you can see below in the above photo.
David Sturner
SOU Women’s Basketball
Breast Cancer Awareness Night
Last night was Breast Cancer Awareness Night at the SOU basketball games. Both the men’s and women’s teams wore pink socks.
The referees in the women’s game blew pink whistles.
SOU Women’s Basketball
Lynn Kennedy
And Coach Kennedy sported a pink tie.
The results were good. Both SOU teams won, and both moved into second place in the 10-team Cascade Conference.
Tonight is Senior Night so arrive by 7 p.m. (after the women’s game) to see the honoring of the seniors on both teams. Better yet, arrive at 5:30 to watch the women’s game as they face a difficult Evergreen team which beat OIT last night.
Although both teams are currently in position to host at least one home game in the Cascade Conference Playoffs, they are also just a loss or two away from 5th place which would mean tonight will be their last home game(s). So come cheer them on to victory and hopefully some more home games.
