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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Guide Weather Subscribe Contact Us November 19, 2004 On to the semifinals ... Wire Reports It wasn't always pretty, and it certainly wasn't easy, but the 21st-ranked Southern Oregon University volleyball team advanced to the NAIA Region I Tournament semifinals by surviving upset scares from Northwest University and Oregon Tech in pool play action Thursday at McNeal Pavilion. Raiders Rachal Baran and Nicholette Le Bel reach for the block in Game 1 against Oregon Tech. Southern won the quarterfinal match in four games to advance to the semifinals today.Andrew Mariman Ashland Daily Tidings The second-seeded Raiders (24-6) ran their win streak to 17 straight at home and 14 consecutive in regional tourney play by topping the Eagles in five games and stopping the Owls in four. Against fifth-seeded Northwest, SOU rallied from a 2-games-to-1 deficit for a 22-30, 30-21, 26-30, 30-26, 15-8 stat-heavy decision that contained more than 200 digs, 148 kills and 24 blocks. Senior all-star hitter Kristin Ferris (21 kills) and junior libero Kristen Lilly (28 digs) posted match-high totals, while junior middle Nicholette Le Bel had 18 kills and five blocks to lead the Raiders. Le Bel accumulated a season-best 20 kills and equaled a career-high with nine blocks, and Lilly had another 26 digs in the 34-32, 25-30, 35-33, 30-23 thriller against the fourth-seeded Owls. SOU, which rallied from a 28-23 deficit and staved off two OIT game point tries in the wild third stanza, posted healthy 78-kill and 99-dig totals. The junior setter had 139 assists in the nine games - a 15.44 average well above her Cascade Conference regular season-best 12.8 clip. The wins propelled three-time defending regional champion Southern into today's 5 p.m. semifinal clash, and the team faces either top-seeded and 13th-ranked Carroll College or No. 6 draw Western Baptist, which play a one-game-to-30 pool play tiebreaker at 1 p.m. Northwest, which downed OIT in five games, meets Montana Tech in the other semifinal match at 7:30 p.m. The Orediggers won their three-team pool by upsetting the Frontier Conference champion Saints in straight games after suffering a similar fate against WBC. The semifinal winners play for an automatic berth to the NAIA Championships Saturday at 2 p.m. DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Slippers Isotoner Slippers Dsw Shoes Ceramic Piggy Banks Fanny Mae Eloans Calenders 2005 Calender 2005 Accelerate Weight Loss Programs Citibank Student Loans Acs Loan Matchmaking & Dating Scripts Adventure Travel Conference Calls - $50/Month Security Systems student loan consolidation helzberg diamonds Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams