Rey Vega dives for a touchdown vs. UC Davis

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Details of yesterday’s game can be found here.

The Raiders’ schedule was not ideal, drawing Eastern on the road to start the season and then an NCAA D1 school on the road for game two. However, if the team can learn from their mistakes in the first two weeks of the young season, things can get much better going forward.

Southern Oregon will play at home in week three against a tough 2-1 team. Massey has Montana Western and SOU neck and neck in the rankings. If the Raiders can win games three and four then I think a 9-2 regular season is not out of the question as their schedule will soften a bit after week four.

Massey Ratings (computer rankings for NAIA football)

Posted on September 11th, 2016 under people. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, rey vega, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU football update

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Details here.

Even after last week’s loss at Eastern Oregon University, Massey has SOU at #3 in the NAIA rankings (EOU moved up to #6). Massey picks Davis (an NCAA D1 institution) by 14.

Posted on September 10th, 2016 under people. Tags: colin davis, connor astley, football, keegan lawrence, kyle alexander, nathan torres-walker, Raider Athletics, tanner trosin, zack davis. Comments Off on Football @ UC Davis today

Don’t forget to catch the home opener at Ashland High School tonight at 7.

Posted on September 9th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Raider Athletics, Sam Boehnke, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball tonight

Details here.

Posted on September 8th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, Roberto Lupera Jr., soccer, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders win first home game

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Mountain Ave. Gym is the Ashland High School Gym. The future SOU gym is under construction.

Posted on September 7th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Emma Gasman, Lauren McGowne, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball in Ashland this weekend

Aislinn Waite

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7 p.m. start time at Raider Stadium vs. UC Merced

Posted on September 3rd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: aislinn waite, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, soccer, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Soccer tonight

Kalan Hoedl putting the pressure on Mac Roche

SOU vs Carroll College (October 2015)

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Welcome to installment #27 in “The Whole Picture” in which I present the uncropped, higher resolution version of photos that SOURaiders.com have published. For prior editions click here. For higher resolution click on the photo before saving. As always, photos are best viewed on a big screen rather than a tiny phone screen.

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 Ashland Daily Photo, 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 recent 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.
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wrestling
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Posted on August 31st, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: football, kalan hoedl, Raider Athletics, sports photography, the whole picture. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (27)

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Posted on August 30th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikon 85mm f/1.4 lens, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, renee yomtob, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on 3 years ago today…

Preseason NAIA #2 2016 SOU Raiders football team

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The Raiders didn’t play today, although the NAIA opened the season a week before the NCAA. There were a few key games in the NAIA today though. #6 Grand View (Iowa) got crushed by #5 Baker (Kansas) 36-13. The NAIA coaches had them about even. Massey Ratings (which I’ve talked about many times before) had Baker winning. Baker doesn’t play any decent opponents for the rest of the season. Expect them to go undefeated in the regular season and then get beat in the playoffs (like SOU did last year) when they finally face a good team. Massey has Baker at #14, but the coaches will soon have them in the top three with home games throughout the postseason thanks to their weak schedule.

In the only Frontier Conference contest, Rocky Mountain beat Montana State-Northern 31-21. Either Montana State-Northern has gotten better (let’s hope–they were awful last year) or Rocky Mountain isn’t going to win many games in the Frontier Conference. Time will tell.

#1 Marian had their way with #10 Saint Xavier 56-10. Massey predicted a similar score. Finally, #25 Montana Western defeated #21 Dickinson State 29-13. Based on the coaches’ rankings, Dickinson State was supposed to win. Once again, Massey predicted better than the coaches. Massey predicted a 34-13 score in favor of Montana Western. Pretty damn close to the actual. Massey has Montana Western at #6 in the country. SOU will face Montana Western in September in Ashland and in late October in Montana.

Posted on August 27th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: football, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics. Comments Off on Massey goes 3-0 in important first week NAIA matchups