Kyle Tedder hits one of his five, 3-point shots to lead the Raiders to victory

The SOU Raiders Men’s Basketball Team is heading to Eastern Oregon for a semi-final playoff game in the Cascade Collegiate Conference Tournament this Saturday night. They should take me along as their record when I’m at their games is 9 – 0. Without me they are 14 – 8. Alas, I will be in Ashland this Saturday night.

Kyle Tedder has had an amazing season for the Raiders, leading the team in scoring and hitting over 45% of his three pointers on over 200 attempts. By comparison, only two guys in the NBA have higher percentages with this many attempts.

The final score last night was 100-88 over Portland’s Concordia University, but the game was closer than that until the final minute or two when Concordia had to go into foul mode.

Posted on February 21st, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, kyle tedder, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Kyle Tedder scores 33 points in the second half

Dex Daum of the SOU Raiders Men’s Basketball Team

The Southern Oregon University Men’s Basketball Team plays in the first-round of the Cascade Collegiate Conference Tournament in Ashland at the Bob Riehm Arena against Concordia University tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. Hopefully this won’t be their last home game of the season, but it likely will be–even with a win.

Posted on February 19th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders host first round playoff game

Melissa “Moe” Sweat dominated OIT to almost single handedly propel the SOU Raiders to victory a couple weeks ago

Friday and Saturday night basketball games at home this weekend for the Southern Oregon University teams. Friday night is Breast Cancer Awareness Night and Saturday is Senior Night as it will likely be the last home game of the season for the women’s team. The men will likely host at least one Cascade Conference playoff game beginning next week.

Posted on February 15th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Melissa Sweat, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, sigma 85mm f/1.4, Southern Oregon University, sports, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders ready to roll over some more opponents this weekend

Jeff Bush scores for the SOU Raiders

Last season, Oregon Tech was the #1 NAIA team in the country. This season they were ranked #2 early on, but SOU has beat them three times. Today’s sequence of photos is from the Raider victory this past Saturday night.

Posted on February 5th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, jeff bush, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, sigma 85mm f/1.4, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Jeff Bush drives to the hoop

Allison Gida of the SOU women’s basketball team drives to the hoop

Tonight Southern Oregon University’s men’s and women’s basketball teams face arch-rival OIT at home. If you plan to go, get there early as it will probably be standing room only by the time the men’s game begins @ 7:30.

Posted on February 2nd, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Basketball night

Southern Oregon University Basketball player Alexi Smith goes to the hoop as the SOU cheerleaders look on

Tonight and tomorrow night the men’s and women’s basketball teams will be playing at home. The Lady Raiders play at 5:30 each night and the men start at 7:30. The opponents are Warner Pacific tonight and Concordia on Saturday night.

In today’s photo, Alexi Smith (averaging about 16 points a game, good for second on the team and fifth in the conference) is sporting a simplified Chinese character for love tattooed on her left arm. 愛 is one of the few characters that can have fewer strokes in Chinese than in Japanese.

Posted on January 25th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Alexi Smith, basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Basketball player Alexi Smith

Jeff Bush – SOU Men’s Basketball

Southern Oregon University’s basketball teams head out on the road for this weekend’s games. Tonight they play the College of Idaho and tomorrow night they play the NAIA #1 ranked team, Eastern Oregon University, who the Raiders beat at home recently.

Today’s photo is from last week’s win against Evergreen State College in Ashland.

Posted on January 18th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders go on the road this weekend

The men and women teams play tonight and tomorrow night in Ashland. Tonight the opponent is Evergreen State College, and tomorrow is Northwest University. Game time is 5:30 for the ladies each night and 7:30 for the men.

Posted on January 11th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, tim weber. Comments Off on SOU basketball returns home

Terriel Thomas

The Southern Oregon University Men’s Basketball team beat William Jessup 85-83 on Wednesday night to run their record to 13-4 for the 2012-2013 season. They play Oregon Tech in Klamath Falls tomorrow night before returning home to face Evergreen on January 11.

Posted on January 4th, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, terriel thomas. Comments Off on SOU Men’s Basketball with another win