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#8 Raider women play tonight

@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB

The first round of the CCC tourney begins tonight in Ashland at 7 p.m. The 25-3 Raiders are already a lock for the 2015 NAIA National Women’s Basketball Tournament, which begins March 11 in Sioux City, Iowa, but a strong showing in the CCC tournament can earn them one of the top seeds (and possibly weaker opponents in the early rounds) in the national tournament.

A win tonight against College of Idaho will give them another home game in the second round of the conference tourney on Friday. More details can be found here.

P.S. The rankings just came out and SOU is still at #8. Only one other team with 3 or fewer loses is outside of the top four. There is probably some middle-of-the-country bias against teams in the west (like in the NAIA football rankings which tend to penalize Frontier Conference teams) so the Raiders will need to prove themselves at the national tournament.

Softball Players of the Week

SOU softball alexa gonzalez

SOU softball – Alexa Gonzalez is hitting .482 so far this season

@SOURaiders @A_Dirty3 @SOU_Softball @brickhouse_1

It’s pretty unusual for the CCC to pick both their offensive and defensive players of the week from the same team, but the SOU Raiders had a pretty unusual week going 6-0, including a 4-1 victory over the #10 team in the country. This is a pretty unusual team, with their 16-4 record and roster made up of seven freshmen. They were picked to come in 5th place in the CCC, and, although the CCC games haven’t begun, this team looks better than a 5th place team.

SOU softball Cheyenne Bricker

Southern Oregon University softball – Cheyenne Bricker is 7-1 with a 2.39 ERA

Conference tournament begins

2015 CCC basketball tournament

2015 CCC basketball tournament

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Senior night

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SOU men’s basketball – Senior Eric Thompson

@SOURaiders

Tonight the last regular season home basketball games will be played which means it’s senior night. Women start at 5:30 and men start at 7:30. Tonight’s games will have playoff implications so come on out and support the Raiders.

Let’s Play Two

SOU softball Megan Scherer

SOU softball – Megan Scherer “sliding” into third

@SOU_Softball @SOURaiders @megkegpegleg

Your last chance to catch the 10-4 Raiders at home for a while is today. They play two starting at 1 p.m. at University Field which is located at the corner of Iowa and Wightman Streets in Ashland. The weather looks great (should be close to 60 degrees and sunny), and there won’t be another home game until March 7.

The Raiders will be looking for a bit of revenge against the University of British Columbia today as UBC was the Raiders only loss to a team not ranked in the NAIA Top 10 or in the NCAA. More details on today’s games can be found here.

SOU football news

SOU football awards brunch permanent captains coach howard drew gibson austin dodge dustin fretwell daniel breaux heston altenbach

2014 SOU football awards brunch – Coach Howard, Drew Gibson, Austin Dodge, Dustin Fretwell, Daniel Breaux, Heston Altenbach

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football

At this past Saturday’s 2014 SOU Football Awards Banquet, Coach Howard named these five graduating/graduated seniors as permanent captains of the SOU football program.

In other news, the first teaser for this upcoming documentary was shown…

BIG final edition

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I continue to get lots of questions about the photo book documenting the SOU 2014 football season. One of the main questions is about the differences between the editions. There are three editions.

The first edition was an 8.5″ x 11″ softcover with 33 pages inside and was limited to a print run of just 10 copies. It sold for $50 each and sold out in 48 hours.

The second edition was an 8.5″ x 11″ hardcover with 43 pages inside and was limited to a print run of 30 copies. It sold for $80 each, and there is only one copy left here.

When it became clear a little over a week ago that all copies were going to be sold I realized that I hadn’t kept a copy for myself. I began tinkering with the second edition to make a single copy and eventually it grew into 51 pages and a much larger size (11″ x 14″). A couple of the photos in this edition are huge. (11″ x 28″!) After having spent a few hours on this third edition, I decided I should probably print more than just one copy so I printed 10. I’m keeping one. I’m donating two copies that were autographed by the entire team, coaching staff, and Mr. Raider this past Saturday at the awards banquet. One of these copies can be yours if you submit one of the two winning bids at the 2015 SOU Raider Club Scholarship Dinner and Auction on April 23, 2015. All proceeds will go to future SOU student athletes to help offset some of their tuition so bid high as this is a great cause.

A bunch of other copies were snatched up at the awards banquet by parents. I do have two (unsigned, sealed) copies of the third edition remaining for $100 each. Email me if interested.

SOU football awards brunch autographs

autographs of the 2014 NAIA Football National Champion SOU Raiders

SOU football awards brunch melvin mason siging book

Melvin Mason signing coffee table photo book of the champions

SOU vs OIT tonight

SOU Men's Basketball vs OIT Kyle Tedder crowd

SOU men’s Basketball vs OIT in 2014 in front of sold out crowd

@SOURaiders @BlakelynB @giddentn @ginaayala19

Get there early (before 7 p.m.) if you want a seat. Get there before 6 p.m. if you want a free t-shirt. If you don’t already have a ticket, get there before 4 as the last few tickets will be sold then.

The 22-3 women start at 5:30.

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NAIA Women’s Basketball Game of the Week

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SOU women’s basketball vs. OIT – Autumn Durand

@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB @ADurand25

Tomorrow night’s game is a pretty big deal. Reserved seats have sold out, but I hear there may be a few left in the bleachers. Better head over to the SOU Athletics Department to pick tickets up today, if you haven’t already, or you probably won’t get in tomorrow.

Wrestling tonight

Raider Red Out

Raider Red Out

Wear red to tonight’s wrestling match and tomorrow’s basketball games.