Tyler Burke slides in under the tag. She is 5-5 in steals this year.

@SOU_Softball @SOURaiders @twyler_

SOU nearly took two more from OIT today. Instead, they settled for a split in Klamath Falls. These teams couldn’t be any more competitive. They have now played four times, going extra innings twice, and three of the four games have been settled by one run. The other? SOU won by just two runs.

Unfortunately for the 28-12 Raiders, they are going to need some help from other teams to catch the Owls as SOU is currently a game back in the standings, and they have no more regular season games against Oregon Tech.

Posted on April 9th, 2016 under people. Tags: Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography, tyler burke. Comments Off on Even Steven

Eagle Point is 5-0 against teams from Oregon and ranked #1 in the state. Ashland is 8-0 and ranked #5. Someone will have a blemish on their conference record after today’s game @ Eagle Point @ 5. The same two teams will play a doubleheader in Ashland on Saturday (4/9/16) beginning at 1.

Posted on April 5th, 2016 under people. Tags: ashland high school, baseball, jesse carroll, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, sports photography. Comments Off on Battle of the unbeatens

Sydney White

Sydney White is the Cascade Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week. She allowed only 5 earned runs in 39 2/3 innings during SOU’s 10-game homestand.

Posted on April 4th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography, sydney white. Comments Off on Player of the Week

Taylor Harrison

@Taylored365 @SOULACROSSE

Noon start time at Raider Stadium.

Posted on April 3rd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, Southern Oregon Men's Lacrosse, sports photography, taylor harrison. Comments Off on Southern Oregon Lacrosse plays in Ashland today

Nick Sanderson

Doubleheader against Springfield at North Mountain Park. First game starts at 1.

Posted on April 2nd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland high school, baseball, nick sanderson, NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, sports photography. Comments Off on Ashland High School baseball @ home today

@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball

Come out to watch your 1st place and 16th ranked Raiders this weekend.

Posted on March 31st, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Kayleen Smith, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography. Comments Off on Softball Friday and Saturday in Ashland

Sydney White strikes out a batter during her 135-pitch shutout

Yesterday SOU beat first place OIT twice for the first time in five years. Details here.

Today’s photo is a composite of two photos. If you look closely you’ll see that the right side-infielders are cheering. That’s because by the time I got to them the batter had already swung and missed.

Posted on March 30th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, clouds, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography, sydney white. Comments Off on Sydney White throws a 9-inning shutout

101 years ago Ty Cobb did this

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Gameday! Big games today as second place SOU welcomes first place Oregon Tech to Ashland. Game times are 2 and 4 p.m.

Abigail Lund doing the Ty Cobb pose

Posted on March 29th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Abigail Lund, NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography. Comments Off on Abigail “Ty Cobb” Lund

SOU’s 2015 football team and 2015-16 women’s basketball team both came in 2nd place nationwide

@LSDirectorsCup @SOU_Football @raidersayre @SOURaiders

You can read about SOU’s 6th place standing in the Directors’ Cup here. Digging into the data a little deeper reveals that the schools in front of Southern in the rankings all have swim teams (SOU, and most NAIA schools, do not). If you back out the swim points, SOU is actually in first place!

With less than 30 teams competing in swimming at the NAIA level, why does swimming get equal rating with football (87 programs have football)? Or basketball (over 130 programs have basketball in NAIA DII)?

Posted on March 25th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University and the NAIA’s Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup