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…
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Men’s Basketball Doubles Down On Weekend Wins
The Southern Oregon men’s basketball team conquered crunch-time in the opening weekend of Cascade Conference play, defeating Corban University 86-84 on Saturday and Northwest Christian University 80-75 on Sunday. Following the weekend action, coach Brian McDermott echoed the importance of…
Winter Sports Looking for a Home
The remodeling of McNeal Pavilion at Southern Oregon University is a positive action in terms of safety and overall operation of the gymnasium, but it has left the school scrambling for practice facilities and game sites for various sports. With…
Rivalry Week: Conference Title at Stake for Raiders
The pressure is on as the SOU women’s volleyball team enters the home stretch of conference play over the next 10 days, hosting Eastern Oregon University on Friday at 7pm followed by College of Idaho on Saturday at 5pm. After…
Ashland Competes Against International Opponents in 14th P.R.B.
One of the only trans-continental high school football games in America was played in Raider Stadium on Saturday night as the Ashland High Grizzlies defeated a Japanese All-star team in the 14th Pacific Rim Bowl. Leading up to the gridiron match…
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…
The Quest for Back-to-Back Championships is Underway
The Southern Oregon University football team took an important step to defending their NAIA title in Friday’s annual ‘Red and White’ spring game. Raider Stadium boasted a respectable turnout for a spring game, with parents of players, students, and Ashland…
Football receives prestigious honors in Salem
“Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon: That we, the members of the Seventy-eighth Legislative Assembly, honor the Southern Oregon University Raiders football team for their victory at the 2014 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics…
SOU Says Goodbye To Coach Kennedy
When college teams and coaches are successful, coaches often receive offers from other schools, and sometimes the offer is too good to pass up. Southern Oregon University is learning this the hard way. Head women’s basketball coach Lynn Kennedy, who…