Southern Oregon University Recently, the Raider softball team entered postseason play but fell short of reaching the National Championship bracket play. Ranked 8th in the country, the Raiders lost to 10th-ranked Grand View (Iowa) in the regional bracket. The Raiders…
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Raider Invitational Recap
Southern Oregon University Athletics This past weekend, the Raider Track and Field program hosted the Raider Invitational which saw appearances from 12 different schools. The Raider program won in several categories over the weekend. On the first day of the…
Raider Softball Sweeps Warner Pacific
Photo by Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo Southern Oregon University Athletics In recent weeks, the Raider softball program has put up the mid-season fight. They split the series against Oregon Institute of Technology, who is ranked second in the nation…
ASSOU Recap, April 6
The first ASSOU meeting of spring term began with Mindy Welsh calling the meeting to order at 6:01 pm. One of the night’s first votes was tabling the minutes from a few sessions ago, voting nine to none with one…
SOU Athletics Adapts to COVID-19
Photo by Al Case In March of 2020 everything changed. Businesses shut down, schools went online, and quarantine began. Like thousands of other organizations and businesses, the SOU Athletics Program shut their doors, per the orders of Governor Brown, and…
School or Fantasy League?
This is a crazy time of year for any sports fan. It is especially tricky for college students and according to Gallup, seventy two percent of eighteen to twenty nine year olds claim to be sports fans. It is clear…
Football Returns to the Big Stage
Snow, wind, cold, and a win were all in attendance at Saturday’s NAIA semi-final matchup between the No. 1 ranked Morningside College Mustangs and the No. 7 ranked Southern Oregon Raiders. If the players blood wasn’t already pumping from the…
Raider Soccer Doubles Down
Both Raider soccer teams had playoff hopes riding on the line with back to back games in back to back days over the weekend. The guys lost their opportunity to secure a playoff berth after they dropped both matches.…
Raider Athletes Honored
Tuesday evening saw the third annual Black and Red All-Sports Awards in the Rogue River room. Though classes were furloughed for the day, many formally dressed Southern Oregon athletes returned to campus to reflect on the past year’s athletic success.…
Showdown in Raider Stadium
This past Friday and Saturday marked the annual Cascade Collegiate Conference Track Meet, bringing ten teams from across the pacific northwest to Raider Stadium to compete. Not only was this meet significant in that the Raiders hadn’t hosted a home track…