SOU vs. Montreat College
Another shot today from last week’s victory over Montreat College… Angelica Cahee and Haley Newell are on defense in this one.
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SOU Women’s Basketball
Josi McDermott
I tried out a new lens this past Tuesday at the Southern Oregon University women’s basketball game. The Nikon 85mm f/1.4 D produced the above result at an aperture of 1.4 and a shutter speed of just 1/1250 of a second (an exposure time I’m not used to indoors with gym lighting). I didn’t even need to bump the ISO up very high to get that kind of shutter speed. This is at an ISO of 800. Needless to say, I’m very happy with the results. The isolation and sharpness of the subject, while leaving the background in a state of creamy bliss, is just what I was hoping for.
Click on the photo for an even larger view to see just how sharp Josi was captured.
Southern Oregon volleyball team moves into 10th in NAIA rankings
Sarah Holgen and Lauren Swetland block for SOU's women's volleyball team against Eastern Oregon
After defeating College of Idaho and Eastern Oregon University at home, the Southern Oregon volleyball team did it again to those same two teams on the road to win the Cascade Collegiate Conference championship tournament and move into the NAIA National Championships. They will be playing to win it all in Iowa later this month.
SOU Raiders finish 2011 season yesterday with a win
SOU football finishes the season with its best record in four years
SOU campus in the fall
Southern Oregon University in Autumn
College and university campuses just look “right” in the fall, when the leaves have changed colors and/or cover the ground. It’s too bad the landscape maintenance crew is so diligent in getting these natural works of art off the campus so quickly. Let us all walk through them for a week or two. Is that too much to ask?
SOU Volleyball come-from-behind victory (part 3 of 3)
Let's see now, where were we? Oh yeah, the deciding match goes to 15, but you have to win by 2 points. The Coyotes made it to 15 first, but the Raiders tied it up once again.
16-16 score, games tied at 2 wins each
Angela Spieker saved this one with a diving effort
Things couldn’t have become, or stayed, any closer. This was some serious, nail-biting action.
Haley Fikso makes it 18-17 with this kill.
19-17 final score in 5th set
Everyone goes wild with the SOU, upset victory
Raiders vs. Coyotes (part 2 of 3)
Angela Spieker sets up another kill for the SOU Raiders
Megan Bartling with the kill. College of Idaho blockers can't make the block.
SOU celebrates the kill
Another celebration after a Natalie Scheller kill
From about 5-5 on in the deciding match no team could get more than a point ahead.
12-12 score, games tied at 2 wins each
14-14 score, games tied at 2 wins each
SOU vs. College of Idaho volleyball (part 1 of 3)
Sarah Holgen with the kill for the Raiders
SOU vs. College of Idaho Volleyball
Angela Spieker with the backwards set for SOU
Sarah Holgen prepares for the dig
Southern Oregon University volleyball team celebrate a point
Megan Bartling with the kill for SOU
Angela Spieker prepares to set another
SOU celebrates a win in set 3 to move to 1-2 at that point in the evening.
Natalie Scheller goes for the block. #3 on College of Idaho was relentless.
Tonight I watched one of the most exciting volleyball matches imaginable. The first set was close. SOU had the lead until late, but they ended up losing a close one. The second set was dominated by College of Idaho, and it looked like this would be a quick evening. The College of Idaho, BTW, was undefeated in league play going into tonight’s match up and had already defeated the Raiders at home earlier in the season. But then things got interesting…
The Lady Raiders won the third and fourth sets to force a deciding fifth set. I will tell you what the final result was in part 3. Suffice it to say, it was VERY close.
A sea of leaves on SOU campus
I think this is where the season Fall got its name.
The best time to photograph leaves on the ground in autumn, it turns out, is on a Monday morning. Soon after I took this photo a machine moved across campus obliterating all traces of their existence. Of course leaves continued to fall, but they don’t last long during the working weekdays.
I went by Triangle Park in town hoping to take some pictures of the vast quantities of leaves there too. However, maintenance workers had scooped them all up earlier in the day. Next year I’ll have to beat them to the punch.