SOU Women’s Basketball
Kristen Schoenherr

The first, regular-season edition of the NAIA Coaches’ Poll has the Lady Raiders in the #19 spot. The pre-season poll didn’t have them ranked at all, but an impressive 9-1 preseason featuring many blowout victories changed some coaches’ minds. Cascade Conference foes Oregon Tech (#16) and Eastern Oregon (#27) also received some votes, but the Raiders won’t be facing either team at home until late January.

Posted on December 3rd, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Kristen Schoenherr, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University Women’s Basketball Team moves up to #19

This past Saturday night the Lady Raiders more than doubled the score of their opponents in their 102-43 victory over the Northwest Indian College Eagles. This little lady didn’t seem to mind that her mom’s team wasn’t winning. She just enjoyed her seat on the bench. Amazingly, she was quite well behaved and only ran on the court during timeouts.

Posted on December 3rd, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Northwest Indian College’s littlest fan

SOU Men’s Basketball
Jordan West had 9 points for the Raiders against Simpson tonight

The Southern Oregon University Men’s Basketball Team beat Simpson (again) tonight to wrap up their pre-conference schedule with a 9-1 record. They may face their toughest home competition until the NAIA Tournament in March of 2014 this coming weekend as Warner Pacific was the coaches’ pick to come in second behind the Raiders. The Raiders will play Warner Pacific on Saturday night (and Concordia on Friday night). Both games will be in Ashland and begin at 7:30 following the women.

Posted on December 2nd, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU wins again

Today’s Skelator pics will be the last, for now anyway. If they come back to Southern Oregon someday I’ll throw some more pictures of them up on the blog beforehand to promote the gig.

Skelator’s Patrick Seick

Skelator @ Musichead (11/15/13)

Skelator’s Rah Davis

Posted on December 2nd, 2013 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, musichead, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4, skelator. Comments Off on Skelator, part 3

SOU Men’s Basketball
David Sturner with the dunk

Posted on December 2nd, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, david sturner, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on David Sturner named CCC Player of the Week

SOU Men’s Basketball
Eric Thompson

SOU Women’s Basketball
Demi Sahlinger

I mentioned a couple months ago about how my photos on souraiders.com sometimes get cropped (leaving out balls, hands, feet, etc. that were in the original). Today’s pics are some more that fit that category.

SOU Men’s Basketball
Jeff Bush

Posted on December 1st, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, demi sahlinger, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 2)

Eric Thompson hits from 3-point range

The SOU Men’s Basketball Team was named the Cascade Collegiate Conference “Adidas Team of the Week” for the last week in November.

Posted on December 1st, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on CCC Team of the Week

SOU Women’s Basketball
Autumn Durand hits the 3 pointer vs. New Hope Christian College

Last night featured blow outs by both the SOU Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams. The women play again at 5:30 this evening. The men will follow against undefeated Southeastern University (Florida).

Posted on November 30th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Basketball tonight

Ashland Danceworks @ Festival of Light Parade 2013 in front of the Ashland Elks Lodge

I managed to squeeze in three of the four activities mentioned in yesterday’s post.

Notice Teddy the Elk in the window on the left.

Posted on November 30th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: blue hour, christmas, danceworks, festival of light, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF. Comments Off on Ashland Festival of Light 2013