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ASHLAND — Following a 6-4 campaign, the end of which signaled the loss of 20 seniors, this offseason has been viewed as a significant one for the Southern Oregon University football team. Wednesday was one of its inherently defining moments, as head coach Charlie Hall announced a recruiting class of 33 on National Signing Day across the country. Hall, who enters his third season with the Raiders in 2019, along with his staff secured 26 commitments from high school seniors and seven more fr
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EUGENE — Jordan Hunt registered 20 points and nine rebounds, Tristen Holmes had 18 and seven and No. 22 Southern Oregon got through an ugly opening night with an 86-63 win against New Hope on Tuesday at Cordeiro Court. Two freshmen making their debuts, Teron Bradford and Kiefer Edwards, sparked the Raiders late. Bradford went for 12 points, seven rebounds and four assists, and Edwards checked in with 16 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, including five on the offensive end. Outside of Bra
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BOZEMAN, Mont. — Former Ashland High track and field standout Wyatt Thompson-Siporen moved into fourth place on Montana State’s all-time heptathlon list in his debut in the event. The 2015 Ashland High graduate scored 5,194 points in winning the two-day, seven-event Montana State Indoor Multis Meet that concluded Tuesday. Thompson-Siporen, a junior, won the shot put at 42 feet and the pole vault at 16-41/4. His score was nearly 500 points ahead of teammate and runner-up Caleb Neth.
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ASHLAND — Senior forward Ariel Augustine scored a career-high 25 points and had a big hand in a first-half downpour from downtown as Southern Oregon’s women’s basketball team eased to a 73-49 win over Walla Walla (Wash.) Friday afternoon at Lithia Motors Pavilion. The 18th-ranked Raiders (9-4 overall, 5-2 Cascade Conference) combined for 11 3-pointers in the first and second quarters, their highest total in a single half in at least a decade. Augustine hit three of them and fin
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EUGENE — The Cascade Conference volleyball title is back in Southern Oregon’s possession, and the CCC Championships are returning to Ashland. The 10th-ranked Raiders became co-champions Saturday at the Morse Event Center, steering free of drama with a 25-22, 25-19, 25-16 thumping of Northwest Christian on the final night of the regular season. They improved to 24-3 overall and 17-3 in the CCC, earning a share of the crown for the first time since 2014 with Eastern Oregon. Because the
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ATHERTON, Calif. — Aliyah Brantley poured in 33 points and 11 rebounds to drive Menlo (Calif.), the No. 16-ranked team at the NAIA Division I level, to a 99-75 defeat of Southern Oregon on Wednesday afternoon at Haynes-Prim Pavilion. Brantley’s point total was the highest for a Raider opponent in six years. The 6-foot-1 senior post shot 15-of-21 from the field and scored 21 of those in the first half, helping the Oaks improve to 5-0. The 12th-ranked Raiders (3-2) cut the deficit to 5
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CORVALLIS — Oregon coach Mario Cristobal says redshirt freshman running back CJ Verdell is just “scratching the surface” for what he can become. Verdell ran for 187 yards and four touchdowns, and also caught a scoring pass as Oregon defeated Oregon State 55-15 Friday in a Civil War victory that was marred by quarterback Justin Herbert’s first-half injury. Herbert threw for 102 yards and a touchdown before he appeared to injure his shoulder or upper arm on a sack and left
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ATHERTON, Calif. — Jordan Hunt’s lowest-scoring outing of the season included his biggest bucket, a go-ahead three-point play with 3.6 seconds left that made 22nd-ranked Southern Oregon a 71-68 winner against No. 21 Menlo (Calif.) in men’s basketball Friday at Haynes-Prim Pavilion. Hunt, a junior forward who was SOU’s leading scorer when the day started, was limited to one field goal until the Raiders’ final possession. With the game tied, Tristen Holmes let the clo
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ASHLAND — A night after putting forth its most prolific 3-point shooting half ever, 18th-ranked Southern Oregon retained its shooting touch for 40 minutes in an 85-52 defeat of Walla Walla (Wash.) on Saturday at Lithia Motors Pavilion. Daranda Hinkey connected on all six of her attempts from 3, Delaney Sparling hit four in a row in the fourth quarter to finish 5 of 8 and the Raiders shot 16 of 29 as a team, landing one make short of the program record. Hinkey went 5 of 5 in the first half
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ASHLAND — A night after scoring 41 at Oregon Tech, Corban’s Jordan Woodvine finished off a memorable road trip by victimizing 19th-ranked Southern Oregon with 26 points and 13 rebounds, hitting four 3-pointers in the second half to close out a 71-62 win at Lithia Motors Pavilion. With the weekend sweep, the Warriors (13-6 overall, 7-2 Cascade Conference) supplanted the Raiders (12-5, 8-3) in second place and stopped a nine-game losing streak in the head-to-head series. Up 33-30 at ha
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Seventeen days after conquering the Cascade Conference Tournament, the stakes will be raised for the Southern Oregon University volleyball team as it begins NAIA national championship pool play today at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa. The Raiders are at the tournament with 31 other teams, which were split into four-team pools last week. Ranked 10th with a record of 26-3, they’re the No. 2 seed in a group that includes No. 7 Viterbo (Wis.) (29-6), No. 24 Jamestown (N.D.) (22-8)
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REDDING, Calif. — The Southern Oregon University men’s wrestling team took its first dual win of the season from Simpson (Calif.) on Wednesday night at the James M. Grant Center, 47-12, and added a 29-15 exhibition victory over Sacramento City College. The Raiders (1-1) scored four pins, a technical fall and three forfeit wins against the Redhawks. Devin Poppen (133 pounds), Chandler Michael (149), Tanner Fischer (197) and Ryland Boyer (285) had the pins and JJ Talavera (165) secured
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KIRKLAND, Wash. — A month full of second-half disappointments finally turned for Southern Oregon on Saturday night at Kristi Brodin Pavilion, where the Raiders executed their biggest comeback in eight years and escaped with a 79-76 overtime win over Northwest (Wash.). Kaj Bansen scored 18 and jump-started the Raiders’ climb back from a 19-point deficit in the first half, and Tate Hoffman helped them finish the deal with 20 of his 22 points and nine of his 11 rebounds after halftime.
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For as bright of a start the Raiders had at Lithia Motors Pavilion on Tuesday night, the end product wasn’t nearly as prosperous. The No. 18-ranked Southern Oregon men’s basketball team led for the majority of the night, but it was arch-rival and No. 14-ranked Oregon Tech that came with the 77-70 win and hand the Raiders their first-ever defeat at Lithia Motors Pavilion. In a week that could go a long way in determining whether SOU will be a player for the Cascade Conference title th
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — If everything went according to the polls, the Southern Oregon University cross country teams knew they’d be in the mix for the men’s and women’s combined title at the NAIA Championships. When both teams outperformed their rankings Friday afternoon at Seminole Valley Park, there was no doubt. The Raiders, whose men ranked fifth and women ranked seventh when the meet started, captured the combined championship for the second time as both teams took fou
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ASHLAND — Alex Carlson became the fastest head coach to 100 wins in Southern Oregon University women’s basketball history as the 19th-ranked Raiders bullied Northwest Christian, 57-45, in Cascade Conference play Friday at Lithia Motors Pavilion. During their eighth victory in nine games, the Raiders (12-4 overall, 8-2 CCC) pulled down more offensive rebounds (22) than defensive boards (20) and forced 27 turnovers. The result was 24 more field-goal attempts for them than the Beacons (
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PORTLAND — Justin Martin, the NAIA’s top scorer, poured in 32 of his 40 points in the second half and helped Multnomah charge back for a 96-83 win against No. 13 Southern Oregon in men’s basketball action Sunday night at Jim Skagen Court. Martin, who scored 42 a night earlier and previously broke the national record with a 71 in a game, was held to 3-of-11 shooting and one 3-pointer in the first half as the Raiders (13-4, 3-3 Cascade Conference) used a 19-0 run to take a 51-38
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The 10th-ranked Southern Oregon University volleyball team learned its draw for the NAIA National Championship final site Monday, landing in the same pool as No. 7 Viterbo (Wis.). The last 32 teams standing were sorted by eight pools of four for round-robin play, and the top two teams in each will advance to a single-elimination bracket at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa. In Pool G, Viterbo (29-6) is the top seed, Southern Oregon (26-3) is the No. 2 seed, 24t
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MERCED, Calif. — The 22nd-ranked Southern Oregon men’s basketball team leaned on its defense until its offense finally came alive against UC Merced, scoring 14 unanswered points down the stretch to pull out a 68-61 win Tuesday night at Hostetler Court. After an ugly 7 of 25 shooting display in the first half, the Raiders (8-1 overall) found themselves down 54-45 with just over seven minutes left. That’s when senior guard Tristen Holmes started the run with a transition layup. T
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Already closing in on her school’s career record for 3-pointers made, Andee Ritter must have decided she didn’t want to wait any longer to etch her name a little more in the UC Irvine women’s basketball record books. Continuing her stellar senior season, Ritter knocked down a single-game school record eight 3-pointers Saturday to score a season-high 24 points and help the Anteaters overwhelm Cal Poly, 73-57. “Great shooters never stop shooting; Andee is a great shooter an