2015 Ashland High School volleyball seniors Liv Rooney, Ellie Case, and Payton Onesti

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Yesterday’s results were the best for the Grizzlies since the 2009 team took 3rd in Oregon. Ashland was the victim of the toughest matchup schedule of any team at the tournament. OSAA doesn’t adjust the brackets round by round, even after the first round (in which almost an entire week passes), so that the lowest seeded team plays the top seed, etc. Therefore, Ashland had to face the #2 seed and the #1 seed in their only two losses of the tournament. On the other hand, La Salle Prep (who won the same number of matches as Ashland during the year), came in second in the tournament by beating the #13 and #9 seeded teams before losing to #3-seeded Summit in the finals.

I know traditions are hard to break, but why not have each of the top teams play each of the other top teams over the two days? Seems much more fair to determine the final placements than the current system. All the teams are there sitting around waiting to play anyway.

Posted on November 8th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, ashland high school, ellie, Nikon D750, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland High School volleyball takes 6th in state

2015 Ashland High School Volleyball Team

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Today is day one of the two-day, double elimination championship in Hillsboro, Oregon. You can see the match times and results here.

#7 Ashland squares off against #2 Lebanon first. That doesn’t hardly seem fair given that #13 Churchill gets to go against #5, but that’s OSAA logic for you. For Ashland to win it all, they will likely have to beat the #2, #3, and #1 teams consecutively.

Posted on November 6th, 2015 under people. Tags: ashland high school, Nikon D750, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on 2015 OSAA 5A Volleyball State Championship

Lauren McGowne

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Courtney Setzer

Lauren McGowne and Courtney Setzer were named Players of the Week for the Cascade Conference. Details here.

Posted on November 2nd, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Courtney Setzer, Lauren McGowne, Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Players of the Week

Ellie Case with one of her 19 kills

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From the Medford Mail Tribune:
ASHLAND 3, SANDY 1: At Ashland, Ellie Case racked up 19 kills and five aces for Ashland, which dropped the opening set but rebounded for a 23-25, 25-19, 25-14, 25-15 victory in the Class 5A state playoff home game.

Karlie Richardson accumulated 35 assists, five kills and four aces and Myla Norvell had 36 digs, five aces and three kills for the Grizzlies, who got 11 kills and three aces from Olivia Rooney.

Posted on November 1st, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland high school, ellie, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland advances

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Just some photos that, when published on souraiders.com, were missing balls, feet, or air under feet.

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, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland in the description of the photo. If you are using the photo in a newspaper or magazine, credit “Al Case, Ashland Daily 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.
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Posted on October 31st, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: corynn kopra, football, Raider Athletics, soccer, the whole picture, volleyball. Comments Off on Whole pictures (19)

2015 Ashland High School volleyball team celebrates win over Sandy to advance to the OSAA 5A Volleyball State Championship

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Posted on October 31st, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland high school, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on The season continues…

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Well, at least last year’s contest was (see below), and just as much is on the line tonight, so I don’t see why tonight’s affair should be any different.

The entire season has been building up to this. Eastern Oregon is 21-2; Southern Oregon is 21-2. Need more be said?

7 p.m. start time. Don’t be late or there may not be any seats.

Posted on October 30th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Crazy exciting volleyball game tonight

@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @LMcGowne

A 3-0 week will likely mean a conference championship. Anything less probably doesn’t…

SOU is undefeated at home. No reason to change that fact this week.

Higher resolution:

Posted on October 27th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Lauren McGowne, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on BIG volleyball games this week

2015 Ashland High School varsity volleyball team

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Tonight is the final regular season game for the Grizzlies at Churchill High School in Eugene. Ashland enters the game tied for the most wins in the state among the 33 5A teams. As the other two teams with 21 wins have already finished their seasons, a win tonight means Ashland will be the only 5A team in Oregon with 22 wins heading into the postseason. A win should also lock up a #6 ranking.

Ashland will likely be hosting the #11 seed on Halloween. No word yet on time. The opponent will be determined after the play-in games on October 27 which Ashland won’t have to participate in this year.

Posted on October 23rd, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland high school, ellie, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on AHS volleyball finishes regular season