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I spent today watching volleyball at SOU (although today’s photo is from last month). Although most of the teams were Southern Oregon club teams, one was made up of mostly SOU volleyball players and alumni. It was fun watching my little (6’2″) 16-year old (#4 in this photo) go up against players like Sarah Holgen and Paulla Pinheiro.
Next up (March 27-29, 2015) is a tournament in Spokane, Washington during spring break.
SOU men’s basketball – Joel Spear
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The Southern Oregon men’s basketball team upset #10 Midland University earlier today to move on to the next round of the NAIA Championship Tourney. The SOU women won yesterday. The women will play at 6:30 a.m. PST on Friday (3/13/15), and the men will play at about 11:45 a.m. Details and links to live stats and video here.
As I mentioned before, with a large amount of NAIA teams (and NAIA headquarters) coming out of the middle part of the country, there is bias in the polling against teams not from the Midwest. This is especially true for football, where the Frontier Conference is routinely snubbed, but the CCC is showing this is true for basketball as well. The Cascade Conference is 5-1 in the tournament so far, and even the one loss could have gone the other way.
SOU will be the favorite in both of Friday’s games so hopefully there will be no upsets in the Round of 16. This is the first time both teams have been in the Sweet 16 in school history.
2015 NAIA Individual 197-Pound Wrestling National Champion Taylor Johnson
@SOUWrestling @SOURaiders @ChuckTaylor132 @BrockGutches
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 NAIA Individual 174-Pound Wrestling National Champion Brock Gutches
More details here.
The walls of the McNeal Pavilion are packed with photos of SOU’s student-athletes of the past decades. There is no space for more. So in what was likely my last photo opportunity in McNeal today, I took some photos for the future building that will be taking its place in fall of 2016.
More Southern Oregon University wrestling photos can be found here.
SOU women’s basketball – Kristen Schoenherr scored 10 and had 4 rebounds in the win
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With this morning’s 96-61 victory over Chicago’s Robert Morris University, the Lady Raiders move on the next round of the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Championship Tournament. Carly Meister had a big game, scoring 25 points with 9 rebounds. The Lady Raiders will play Friday morning (6:30 a.m. PST) against Tabor College; Tabor upset Marian University earlier in the day.
SOU women’s basketball – Autumn Durand
@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB @ADurand25
Tip off is at 8:15 a.m. PST. Details and links to live stream and live stats here.
Cheyenne Bricker
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After a 2-2 week, in which the Raiders split doubleheaders with the #8 and #10 teams in the country, two Southern Oregon softball players received conference honorable mentions as players of the week. Conference play begins this weekend against Concordia and Northwest on the road. Next week the second set of rankings come out, and it will be interesting to see if the 19-9 Raiders crack the top 25 (given that most of their loses were to teams in the top ten).
SOU softball – Kelsey Randall
George McKay grabbing a photo of the SOU men’s basketball team
Once upon a time this blog was supposed to be only about Ashland and would include mostly landscapes, places, and street photography in town. As time has passed, most posts these days are about bands coming through town or athletics in Ashland.
Several years ago I met George. Neither one of us knew it prior to our meeting, but we had similar blogs going. George’s Life in Ashland blog has remained true to the Ashland street photography theme that “Ashland Daily Photo” once did on a more regular basis.
George is also on Instagram now. You can follow him here. I’m on Instagram too. I don’t post daily there like I do here, but you can follow me on Instagram here.
Saturday’s contests won’t include the annual prom dress rugby match (pictured above), but they will be the last ones for winter term. First match kickoff for the women is noon (same as women’s softball). Maybe catch a bit of both. The fields are almost adjacent to each other. The men’s rugby team will be playing at 4.
2014 SOU softball senior Ashley Lowe
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This was how all of the cool kids wore their stirrups when I played little league in the late 1970s.
The 18-8 Raiders are back in town this Saturday for a doubleheader against #10 Simpson. First pitch will be at noon. Games should continue until about 4 p.m. SOU has beaten Simpson this year, and their last game against them was a 2-1 close one so these should be very good contests.
2015 Southern Oregon University women’s basketball team
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The first round of the NAIA national tournament will take place next Wednesday (3/11/15) morning in Sioux City, Iowa. The 26-4 Raiders are ranked #10 and will be the favorite against 21-6 Robert Morris University.