SOU softball – Kelsey Randall

@SOU_Softball @SOURaiders @Kelsee_R @SOUWomensSoccer

League play doesn’t begin for another month, but the Southern Oregon University softball team has had their way with their opponents thus far. They will play eight games this weekend in California.

Freshman Kelsey Randall, a two-sport star for the Raiders, is leading the team in most offensive categories including average (.583), runs (12), and slugging percentage (.958). She turned a nifty double play from her shortstop position in yesterday’s victory.

Some of you may have found your way here through the link on souraiders.com. I have had several people email me asking questions about buying prints or about finding all of my photos for a certain sport.

The photos I post here are a small fraction of the photos I actually have. If you would like to print any of the photos on this blog, you are welcome to do so at no charge. Be sure to click on the photo to get to the higher resolution size which will print with more quality. If you want to use them on the web (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland with the photo or link back to the URL with source of the photo.

If you would like me to search through all of my photos and send you photos of the particular athlete you are looking for I charge a reasonable fee for the time it takes me to find all of those photos and to process them for you. I do not normally sell prints. I email you the high quality electronic files in .jpg format, and you can do the printing and framing yourself through a local or online service. My email is on this page or you can comment (leave a reply) to a blog entry to communicate.

To find all of my photos for a particular sport, use the following links. Click on “Older Entries” near the bottom-left of each page to view more photos.
football
basketball
softball
volleyball (includes some club and high school volleyball too)
soccer
wrestling
Track and Field – Coming in April 2015…

Posted on February 12th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Kelsey Randall, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, softball, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Raiders improve to 6-0

SOU football – Melvin Mason running in Chicago against St. Xavier University

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Sectionchamp2 #tbt #ThrowbackThursday

Posted on February 5th, 2015 under people. Tags: football, melvin mason, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Melvin Mason

SOU football – Melvin Mason

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @racetodaytona #NAIAfootball

The race to Daytona will finish today. If you aren’t in Daytona already, you can watch the game on ESPNU. If you don’t have ESPNU, head to somewhere that does. If you are in Ashland you can watch the game with others at places like RedZone, Northwest Pizza, Club 66, or Omars. Additional places to watch can be found here. Game time is noon PST.

Posted on December 19th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, melvin mason, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon, video. Comments Off on Today is the day

Southern Oregon University football – Matt Retzlaff

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Matt_Retzlaff

Actually, we will be there in about 24 hours, but who’s counting? The game is in five days.

Before you go, don’t forget to do this:

2014 NAIA National Championship Football Game on ESPNU (Daytona Beach, Florida)

Posted on December 14th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, Matt Retzlaff, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 5 days to Daytona

Southern Oregon University football

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @TamronUSA

Fun fact #3: Win, lose, or draw in Daytona, no NAIA team will finish the 2014 football season with more wins than the Raiders. 12 wins is not only a record for the Raiders, it is also more wins than any team in the NAIA has achieved this year. Let’s make it lucky number 13 for good measure.

P.S. Today’s photo, and these photos, were taken with the Tamron 150-600mm lens–a lens mostly marketed to, and used by, wildlife photographers. I found it to work rather well on the “wild life” found on a football field.

Posted on December 13th, 2014 under people, photography. Tags: football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 6 days to Daytona

Heston Altenbach and Laurence Calcagno celebrate Altenbach’s defensive touchdown
caused by Calcagno’s tipped pass while Alex Stork and Joseph Lealofi join the party

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @JP_Daytona

Fun fact: No football team in the NAIA will finish the 2014 season with fewer than two losses. However, if SOU defeats Marian next week in the National Championship Game, they will be the only team to have a non-losing record against each and every one of their opponents. Southern Oregon University was 2-1 against Carroll College and 1-1 against Eastern Oregon University.

Posted on December 11th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, Heston Altenbach, JOSEPH LEALOFI, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 8 days to Daytona

SOU football – Dylan Young (Raider record holder for most TD catches)

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @DY_Lee11 @Play_NAIA

Once again, Hensley Ratings showed that they know more about which teams are better than the coaches. The NAIA Championship Game in Florida next week (12/19/14) looks, on paper (based on the NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll), like a surprising #8 seed (SOU) vs. a surprising #7 seed (Marian). However, when the final computer rankings came out a few weeks ago, the Raiders were #2 and Marian was #3. As I mentioned before, the Carroll vs. SOU quarterfinal game pitted the top two teams against each other and SOU came out on top.

So don’t be surprised that Southern Oregon University and Marian University Indianapolis made it to the finals. Be surprised that they weren’t awarded home games for the quarter and semifinals.

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under people. Tags: dylan young, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Computer rankings > coaches rankings

SOU football – Austin Dodge and Sean Tow in yesterday’s road victory over Chicago’s St. Xavier University (ranked #3 in the nation)

@Seantow17 @SOURaiders @SOU_Football

Details here. More photos coming here soon.

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under people. Tags: austin dodge, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sean tow, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Raiders will be playing in National Championship Game

SOU football – Coach Howard, Melvin Mason, Matt Retzlaff, Blakelyn Birks, Ronald Rylance, Dylan Bratlie, Tylor King

@BlakelynB @SOU_Football @SOURaiders

Although the results of yesterday’s game didn’t go according to plan, the Raiders did end up (barely) in the top eight in the final rankings which should give them a home game in the first round of the NAIA playoffs.

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: dylan bratlie, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 8 is enough