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Ashland Ski Area looks for ways to diversify ... Sky Park set to take off ... Retrial begins in botched murder case that helped unseat a judge ... Mt. Ashland Ski Area looks for ways to diversify ... Sky Park set to take off ... Retrial begins in botched murder case that helped unseat a judge ... RAIDER ROUNDUP Raider men shut down Eastern Oregon Comment By SOU Sports Information MailTribune.com By SOU Sports Information Posted Jan. 25, 2015 @ 2:00 am By SOU Sports Information Posted Jan. 25, 2015 @ 2:00 am » Social News LA GRANDE — The 10th-ranked Southern Oregon men's basketball team shot 57 percent and kept the Cascade Conference's second- and third-leading scorers 26 points below their combined average, earning a key road split with a 75-56 win over Eastern Oregon on Saturday night at Quinn Coliseum. Eric Thompson totaled 22 points and eight rebounds for the Raiders, who improved to 18-4 overall and 8-3 in conference play with five of their last seven regular-season games to be played at home. Thompson went 8-for-13 from the field, Jordan West went 6-for-10 with 13 points and seven boards and Ben DeSaulnier went 5-for-7 with 14. Tim Weber logged 11 points, six rebounds and three assists, and sunk the dagger 3-pointer that gave the Raiders their largest lead, 60-46, with 5:45 to play. One possession later, Weber found DeSaulnier for a triple that made it 63-48. The Mountaineers (12-9, 4-7) were led by Case Rada, who connected on six 3-pointers for 26 points. Their leading scorers, Bryan McGriff and De'Sean Mattox, were limited to a total of 15 points on 6-for-24 shooting. In SOU's 114-104 overtime win over the Mountaineers on Dec. 19 in Ashland, Mattox scored 42 points and McGriff had 31. EOU also shot 48 percent as a team in that contest but just 38 percent on Saturday. The Raiders have won five straight against EOU, including three straight in La Grande by an average margin of 20 points. Trailing 22-20 midway through the first half, the Raiders compiled a 12-0 run started by a Thompson jumper and capped by a DeSaulnier 3-pointer and never trailed again. They led 38-33 at halftime and scored the first six points of the second with baskets on their first three possessions. SOU went 26-for-46 as a team, eclipsing 55 percent from the field for the fourth time in five games. The Raiders will return to Riehm Arena, where they are 7-0 this season, next Friday and Saturday for games against Corban and Northwest Christian. Both are scheduled to tip off at 7:30 p.m. Women’s Basketball EOU 77, SOU 65 : At La Grande, for the second time this season, the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers let Southern Oregon back into a game that they controlled. This time, however, the Mountaineers still had some fight left after the 12th-ranked Raiders made their move. EOU coughed up a 13-point lead in the second half Saturday at Quinn Coliseum but scored eight of the first 10 points in overtime, prevailing to take sole possession of first place in the Cascade Conference standings. Freshman guard Maya Ah You scored 31 points to lead the Mountaineers, who improved to 17-5 overall and 9-2 in the CCC. Ah You previously scored a season-high 22 in EOU's 90-82 loss at SOU on Dec. 19 — a game the Raiders trailed by nine points with 10 minutes to go — and hadn't tallied more than 16 in any other contest. The Raiders (17-3, 8-3) were led by Ashley Claussen's 20 points, seven assists and five rebounds. Alexi Smith had 13 points and 11 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season, and Carly Meister added 10 points and eight rebounds. SOU had an early 10-4 lead when Ah You came off the bench to score 13 points during a 20-4 run that sent the Mountaineers on their way to a 33-26 halftime lead. EOU was up 35-31 before Ah You came in and drained two of her five 3-pointers consecutively, sparking a run that made it 51-38. It was 53-42 at the 10-minute mark when EOU went scoreless for four minutes and allowed the Raiders to crawl back into it. Claussen made a couple 3-pointers during the surge, and Meister's jumper gave SOU a 56-55 lead with 5:39 to play, but it got quiet after that. Ah You and Meister traded buckets before the teams held at 59-all for the final two minutes of regulation, with SOU missing a couple tries from downtown on the final possession. The Raiders went 1-for-8 from the field in overtime. A Maloree Moss jumper and Jordan Klebaum's 3-pointer got EOU started. Klebaum's 3 with 47 seconds remaining sealed the win, making it 73-65. Klebaum and Madeline Laan finished with 12 points apiece for the Mountaineers, who forced 26 Raider turnovers. SOU won at EOU in the semifinals of last season's conference tournament, but has lost six straight regular season games in La Grande. The Raiders, who had their five-game win streak snapped, return home next weekend for games against Corban and Northwest Christian. 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