Southern Oregon Men’s Lacrosse vs. UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
Tom Halley led the Raiders with three goals and one assist

The SOU Men’s Lacrosse team defeated the Slugs 14-4 in occasional rain and bits of sun and rainbows yesterday.

Southern Oregon Men’s Lacrosse – Ashland, Oregon (Walker and Iowa Street Field with Raider Stadium in the background)

Southern Oregon Men’s Lacrosse
Casey Liebler celebrates his goal

Southern Oregon Men’s Lacrosse
Ian Wilborn had a goal and an assist

The 4-0, nationally-ranked Raiders play again in Ashland today at 2 p.m. against the University of Nevada Wolf Pack.

Posted on March 2nd, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikon D600, Southern Oregon Men's Lacrosse, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Southern Oregon Men’s Lacrosse wins again

Southern Oregon University Women’s Basketball
Allison Gida

The SOU Women’s Basketball Team just beat the #1 seed to move on to the finals in the Cascade Conference Championships.

Allison Gida scored 20 points, had 10 rebounds, and 4 assists. Carly Meister was even more impressive with 24 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists.

Posted on February 28th, 2014 under people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders upset Mountaineers 80-62!

SOU Women’s Basketball
Carly Meister

Allison Gida and Carly Meister are scoring often for the Raiders early in this playoff game. The EOU site provides continuous updates, almost as good as a video feed or a radio broadcast.

30-28, SOU leads…

Posted on February 28th, 2014 under people. Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU vs EOU action

SOU Women’s Basketball
Ashley Claussen

With Tuesday’s victory over Evergreen in Ashland, the Southern Oregon University Women’s Basketball Team earned the right to take on the #1 seed (Eastern) in the conference. The problem is that Eastern Oregon has a league best 12-1 home record. The good news is that SOU has a league best 10 wins on the road. It’s time for an upset in SOU’s favor.

Posted on February 28th, 2014 under people. Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU women face tough challenge on the road this evening

Georgia Williams
Ashland High School Volleyball

I’m not sure exactly why, but fairly consistently for the past few months my prior blog entry featuring Georgia has been receiving more hits than any other page on the blog. So here is another photo of her playing volleyball. She also plays basketball for Ashland High School.

Posted on February 27th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland high school, georgia williams, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Georgia Williams

This past Sunday saw another tournament championship for the Siskiyou Volleyball Club 16U (Alan) Team. That’s the third or fourth championship for the team for the short club season. Alan’s team went 12-1 in individual games on the day in the 23-team tournament, and they had to make it past an 18U team in the final match to secure the victory.

Posted on February 26th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ellie, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on 2/23 – Siskiyou VC Tournament Champions

SOU Men’s Basketball against Northwest Christian
Tim Weber to Jordan West

Thanks to last weekend’s nightmare road trip for the Southern Oregon Men’s Basketball Team, they have dropped out of the rankings for the first time this year. A win this Wednesday night (against Northwest Christian on 2/27/14) won’t be enough, but it will be a start. They will also need to win a couple of road playoff games after winning on Wednesday to make it to the NAIA Championship Tournament.

Posted on February 25th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on The SOU Men’s Basketball Team faces three, must-win games

Tyler Baumgartner dives back into first ahead of the throw from Andrew Moore to Danny Hayes

The Oregon Ducks play their first game of the season in Eugene at 6 p.m. today. I’m getting the itch to head up the highway to catch a game or two. It’s been too long since I’ve last seen live baseball.

The first baseman in today’s photo, Danny Hayes of the OSU Beavers, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox. The pitcher, Andrew Moore, was only a freshman when I took this, and in addition to winning the Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Year Award, he was also named to the Baseball America All-America First Team.

Posted on February 25th, 2014 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: baseball, eugene, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, sports photography, UofO. Comments Off on Ducks begin home games for 2014 baseball season tonight

Southern Oregon University Wrestling
Jacob Abrams

Live Pay-Per-View video available beginning at 5 p.m. here. Free live stats will be available here.

Posted on February 22nd, 2014 under people. Tags: Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, wrestling. Comments Off on Jacob Abrams and four other SOU wrestlers wrestle in the championship rounds tonight at the NAIA Western Region Qualifier