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SOU volleyball – Sam Boehnke
The opponent is not yet known, but the Raiders will likely be home Saturday night (11/22/14) to try to win their way to Sioux City, Iowa for the NAIA volleyball championships. Like the football team, the ladies are hoping to reverse their results from the prior weekend. Hopefully both teams will be smiling by the end of Saturday.
SOU volleyball – Motade Atanda
@tadeatanda @SOURaiders @RaiderVB
She had 43 kills on Friday and Saturday to propel SOU to the conference championship and a bye for the first round of the playoffs tomorrow night.
Southern Oregon University crowd
2014 Senior Night – SOU volleyball
(L to R) Paulla Pinheiro, Brookelynn Cole, Nikki Keller, Shelby Young, Motade Atanda, Kelsea MacPhee, Sam Boehnke
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @paulla_op @BrookelynnRCole
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SOU volleyball – Motade Atanda, Paulla Pinheiro, Sam Boehnke, Brookelynn Cole (seniors) Emma Gasman, Lauren McGowne (next year’s veterans)
Although the regular season is over, this season is far from over. The Cascade Conference and NAIA tournaments await.
St. Helens High School volleyball – Taylor Albertson
Congratulations to St. Helens High School for winning the 2014 5A Oregon State Volleyball Title today. Ashland High School lost to St. Helens just last week when I took this photo. Taylor Albertson was the star on that night for St. Helens, and the same was true today. She had 26 kills and 8 blocks in just four sets today. Her stats were probably similar against Ashland.
Some things to consider…
What if all of Ashland’s wins in tournaments had counted instead of just all of their losses? What if the state rankings were done based on complete data? What if Ashland’s wins against higher ranked teams meant something in the rankings? Instead, Ashland was stuck with a poor seed which meant the Grizzlies had to play the eventual state champion on the road in the single-elimination round of 16.
Ashland beat (on the road) teams that eventually came in 3rd, 4th, and 6th in the state. Ashland also beat Crater at home (and Crater will end up with a Top 8 ranking). Ashland never played the teams that came in 2nd and 5th.
So maybe Ashland would have finished near the top had they been given a fairer chance. Oh well; there’s always next year.
SOU volleyball – Paulla Pinheiro
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @paulla_op
Tonight’s come-from-behind victory against 3rd place Concordia had a familiar feel to it. The Raiders were down 2 games to 1 after getting hammered in the third set by Eastern Oregon University a little over a month ago. The same thing happened earlier this evening. With a flair for the dramatic, they came roaring back this time too for a five-set nail biter.
A win Saturday night (in Ashland @ 5 p.m.) means a bye in the first round of the Cascade Conference playoffs next week.
Ashland High School volleyball – Jordan Tilley
@JordanTilley505
Congratulations to Jordan Tilley and Hope Baldrica for being chosen all-league in their final year at Ashland High School. Hope will be playing volleyball at Colorado Christian University next year.
SOU volleyball – Championship weekend
SOU soccer – Haylee Eckart
SOU volleyball – Lauren McGowne
Lauren Aldana, Serena DeChristofaro
Elise De Jesse
Paige Kilpatrick
Presley Lambert
Southern Oregon University soccer – Allyson Ward, Lisa Elledge
Tyana Andrews
Kendra Madaras-Kelly
@SOUWomensSoccer @SOURaiders @RaiderVB @kendra_mk13 @tyana_dawn @elisedejesse
Full list and criteria here.
jpg image, straight out of the camera
I have mentioned several times before that there are situations where images shot as jpgs are “throw aways” that had they been shot in RAW format could be salvaged.
Today’s comparison is one such example. With a rainbow outside a dimly-lit gym, I had the choice of shooting the rainbow and getting a nearly black gym (above) or shooting the action on the court and getting a white sky (not shown). By shooting in RAW I was able to process the above image to come up with what you see below.
Ashland High School volleyball – rainbow out gym window in front of Grizzly Peak
By the way, Ashland won last night, advanced to the Sweet 16 in state, and will be playing in St. Helens on Saturday. The winner moves on to the Elite 8 round.
Ashland High School volleyball against South Medford
Game time is 6:30. If Ashland wins they will hit the road on Saturday for a game against a top eight team to see who gets to go on to the State Championship in Hillsboro the following weekend.