Tayler Walker, Mike Beagle, and Sam Woods (2022 SOU Commencement)

RIP my friend.

Posted on February 16th, 2026 under only in ashland, people. Tags: commencement, mike beagle, Raider Athletics, sam woods, Southern Oregon University, tayler walker. Comments Off on Mike Beagle (1962 – 2026)

Sam Woods and the Coach Craig Howard Memorial Stone

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Posted on August 24th, 2023 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Coach Craig Howard, football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, sam woods. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Sam Woods!

Sam Woods

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Posted on August 24th, 2021 under only in ashland, people. Tags: connor astley, football, jose sanchez, Raider Athletics, sam woods. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Sam Woods!

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Details here.

Posted on June 11th, 2020 under only in ashland, people. Tags: aaron downes, football, isiah carter, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sam woods, sean rogers. Comments Off on SOU All-Decade Football Defensive Team

Tanner Trosin

Sam Woods family with Mike Beagle

2017 football seniors and their families

As always, you can click on the images for higher resolution versions. These look best after loading the full resolution version on a large screen.

Armando Gauger

Posted on October 30th, 2017 under only in ashland, people. Tags: armando gauger, football, mike beagle, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, sam woods, tanner trosin. Comments Off on 2017 football senior day (part 3)

Dom Giampaoli, Zay Taylor, Josh Cline, and Christmas Aumua

Oshay Dunmore

Armando Gauger’s parents with Mike Beagle

Sam Woods

Keegan Lawrence’s parents with Mike Beagle

Posted on October 29th, 2017 under only in ashland, people. Tags: armando gauger, christmas aumua, dom giampaoli, football, josh cline, keegan lawrence, mike beagle, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, oshay dunmore, Raider Athletics, sam woods, sports photography, zay taylor. Comments Off on 2017 football senior day (part 2)

5-0 Southern Oregon slid one spot on Massey to #5 after yesterday’s narrow victory over Rocky. Massey had the Raiders as 11-point favorites. Rocky moved up to #12 on Massey, but the biased coaches will keep them out of the top 25.

Marian lost, for the second time this year, so the coaches will drop them (even though they lost to the #1 team), and the Raiders will move up in tomorrow’s coaches’ poll to #8.

SOU has a bye this coming weekend and will travel to Eastern Oregon on October 14. Massey has the Raiders as 4-point favorites in that one.

Posted on October 1st, 2017 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, aj cooper, football, isiah carter, Jason Shelley, Jordan Suell, matt boudreaux, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, sam woods, sean rogers, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders back to #5 on Massey, should be #8 with coaches

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EOU beat Western Montana today. Not much changed with Massey Ratings as SOU stayed put at #5. Massey was more impressed with Morningside’s win than Montana Tech’s victory over lowly Montana Northern so Montana Tech slid to #4 according to Massey.

Just a point of clarification… Several people said last week after this post that Massey doesn’t mean anything. It is true that Massey doesn’t mean anything in terms of who goes to the postseason or who gets home games in the postseason, but Massey means much more than the coaches’ poll in terms of predicting who will win games as I’ve documented many times over the years.

So what rankings do count? The extremely biased and inaccurate coaches’ poll is the only one that counts in the NAIA’s eyes. The first one comes out tomorrow (Monday, September 11). Based on what the coaches normally do, I believe Montana Tech will end up #5, Eastern Oregon will be ranked somewhere between #11 and #15, SOU will be somewhere between #14 and #18, and Western Montana will drop to somewhere around #20 or #21.

The Raiders will travel to Western Montana for next Saturday’s game. Massey has Southern Oregon as a 3-point favorite.

Update: How did I do?

Posted on September 10th, 2017 under people. Tags: armando gauger, devvon gage, football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, sam woods, sports photography, tre holmes. Comments: 1

2017 Southern Oregon University football d-line

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Check it out here.

Posted on August 26th, 2017 under only in ashland, people. Tags: armando gauger, football, Grant Torgerson, masi tunoa, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sam woods, sean rogers, sports photography, tre holmes. Comments Off on 2017 SOU football defense