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RAIDER ROUNDUP: SOU outlasts Bushnell in 5 sets By SOU Sports Information Updated: Sep 16, 2022 11:40 PM A A ASHLAND — Two nights after its winning streak came to an end, the No. 17-ranked Southern Oregon volleyball team rode the ebbs and flows of another emotional match to a five-set Cascade Conference win over Bushnell on Friday night at Lithia Motors Pavilion. The Raiders (11-2 overall, 5-1 CCC) fought back from a 2-1 sets deficit to down the Beacons 25-14, 21-25, 26-28, 25-19, 15-13. Mylena Testoni accumulated 18 kills and 14 digs, and she pounded five of those kills in the final set to give SOU its first tiebreaker victory of the season. Bushnell dropped to 8-6 and 3-3. Momentum was in its favor after a bizarre ending to the third, where SOU initially celebrated a 25-21 before a replay wiped Katie Vroman's clinching kill off the board. The Beacons ended the set on a 7-2 run to steal it away, then took a 3-1 lead in the fourth. The Raiders regrouped to hold the Beacons at a .000 attacking average in the frame and ran away with it, then Testoni and Hailey Van Well took over the fifth. They trailed 5-4 when Vroman and Carol Melo flipped the lead by teaming up for back-to-back blocks. Still leading by one, Van Well put them up 14-11 with three kills in a six-point span, and Testoni later finished it off with her final strike. "That was a huge character builder for us," SOU head coach Josh Rohlfing said. "We've been on the cusp with tight games going the other way here and there, and we had to really gut one out against a great Bushnell team. We had a lot of different people step up, too." Van Well finished with 12 kills and Sadie Byrd had six kills and assisted five of SOU's nine blocks. Vroman and Melo combined for 10 kills and just one error on 24 swings. Kayla Neidigh steadied the back row with 26 digs, and Trinity Atuatasi added 17 more. Setters Gwen Sheldon (27 assists) and Hannah Randall (23 assists, 9 digs) helped the Raiders to a .168 attack. Men’s Soccer NORTHWEST (WASH.) 1, SOU 0: At Kirkland, Wash., more tough luck doomed Southern Oregon as it opened Cascade Conference play with a loss to Northwest (Wash.) at NU Athletic Field. The Raiders (3-3 overall) got off 19 shots but failed to finish. They put seven on target — matching the team’s highest shots-on-goal total ever in a shutout that was established 11 days ago. The win was the Eagles’ first against SOU since 2015, the Raiders’ inaugural season. They’d since lost six consecutive matchups by an aggregate score of 16-2. Women’s Soccer NORTHWEST (WASH.) 1, SOU 0: At Kirkland, Wash., Northwest (Wash.) stayed unbeaten with a win over Southern Oregon in the Cascade Conference opener for both teams at NU Athletic Field. The Eagles (5-0-1 overall) made their 10th-minute goal stand as the decider. Elizabeth Moretti scored her third of the season, set up by an assist from Olivia Morris. The Raiders (1-4-1) were limited to one shot on goal and four total attempts.