Sydney Mullings

@SOURaiders @souwbb @Tiani_Bradford @syddthaakiddd

Besides being the only unbeaten team in the conference, the SOU women’s basketball team is also winning their games by incredible margins. They win by an average of 37 points! 16 points was the margin of victory in their closest conference affair. The next four games are on the road, including 5-1 Oregon Tech and 5-1 Eastern Oregon. If they can win those two games then we can start talking about even crazy stuff, like a 27-0 regular season.

Tiani Bradford

Posted on January 3rd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography, Sydney Mullings, Tamron SP 24-70mm Di VC USD, tiani bradford. Comments Off on Best team in the Cascade Conference

David Weider

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @RaiderVB @RinnieThePoooh

Welcome to installment #21 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.

Joel Spear

Corynn Kopra

Teran Togia

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 December 31st, 2015 under people. Tags: basketball, corynn kopra, football, joel spear, Raider Athletics, sports photography, the whole picture, volleyball. Comments: 2

Erin Houston

@SOURaiders @souwbb @ErinnnNicoleee

Warner Pacific proved that they have teams to be reckoned with via their sweep of Oregon Tech last night in Klamath Falls. Both of the Owls’ teams are tough, especially at home, but WPC earned Ws against them. Tonight it’s the Raiders’ turn. In a very unusual situation, all four teams are undefeated in conference play at 5-0. Only the winners of each game will enter 2016 in first place.

Game times are 5:30 and 7:30 at Ashland High School.

Clay Sierra

Posted on December 31st, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Huge games tonight

Stan Smith and his daughter, Dana Tuley, in the 2015 Ashland 4th of July Parade

Stan Smith presented with his 2014 National Championship ring by the SOU football team at Ashland Street Cinema

Stan Smith and the championship trophy @ Granite Taphouse

Stan Smith photo with All-American Daniel Breaux

Stan Smith’s contribution recognized at Northwest Pizza

Posted on December 29th, 2015 under people. Tags: Dana Smith Tuley, football, July 4, Northwest Pizza and Pasta Company, parade, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, stan smith. Comments Off on Mr. Raider Stan Smith 1924-2015

@SOURaiders @souwbb @Tay_Nuttall_

SOU men’s and women’s basketball starts up again tomorrow. They’ve been off for more than a week which is unusual. The games are Wednesday (12/30/15 vs. Multnomah) and Thursday (12/31/15 vs. Warner Pacific) at Ashland High School with the women tipping off at 5:30 each evening followed by the men at about 7:30. The New Year’s Eve games will be a battle for first place in the conference for both the men and the women. Both SOU teams currently sit in a tie for first place with also undefeated Warner Pacific.

Taylor Nuttall

Posted on December 29th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography, taylor nuttall. Comments Off on Basketball resumes in Ashland

According to Flickr “favorites” these were my top sports-related photos of 2015. Note that I don’t post many of my sports photos on Flickr (maybe one a week on average).

For my top non-sports photos from Southern Oregon for 2015, click here.

Posted on December 27th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: Nikon D750, photography, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Top sports photos of the year

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @TannerTrosin @racetodaytona #RaceToDaytona #NAIAFB

No one answered my question, but the answer to “What do these numbers (9, 1, 3, 7, 10, 2, 1) mean?” is, “the rankings of the teams the Raiders beat in the playoffs over the past two years”. A streak of seven consecutive, playoff victories over top 10 teams (five of the games on the road) is impressive to say the least. Four of those victories came over teams in the top 3 (all on the road). Amazing.

The Raiders finished up as #2 in the final NAIA football rankings for 2015. Hopefully the Raiders beat teams ranked something like 16, 11, 7, and 5 in 2016’s playoffs. Why? Because that means a #1 ranking heading into them.

The coaches’ poll has three Frontier Conference teams in the top 25. Massey’s final rankings has seven Frontier Conference teams in the top 25. The coaches still aren’t paying attention to Massey despite Massey’s perfect record in predicting the final three rounds of the playoffs (compared to the coaches’, less than a coin flip, 3-4 record).

Posted on December 21st, 2015 under people. Tags: football, Jaylenn Hart, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography, tanner trosin. Comments Off on #2

Jordan West

@SOURaiders @souwbb

Details here.

Ashley Claussen

Posted on December 21st, 2015 under people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Players of the Week

Majerle Reeves

@SOURaiders @souwbb

Details here.

Posted on December 21st, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Majerle Reeves, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Team of the Week