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ASHLAND — Southern Oregon got a momentous lift from its bench for the second night in a row but held its collective breath in the final moments of a 69-67 win against Warner Pacific on Saturday night at Lithia Motors Pavilion. WPU senior Collin Malcolm, an Ashland High product, had his most enjoyable homecoming yet against the Raiders with game-highs of 28 points and 11 rebounds. His final attempt in the 11-for-17 outing, though, was the potential game-winning 3-pointer — a step-back
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Two memorable Southern Oregon wrestling careers came to an end Saturday inside the Jacobson Exhibition Center with 197-pounder Tanner Fischer placing seventh and 141-pounder Devin Poppen placing eighth at the NAIA Championships. Both seniors were defeated in the quarterfinals and had to win consolation matches to secure top-eight standings Friday. On Saturday, they lost their first consolation matches but Fischer, a No. 10 seed, rebounded with a 5-2 upset against No. 5 D
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ASHLAND — Another stout defensive performance paved the way for 13th-ranked Southern Oregon’s 92-56 rout of Simpson (Calif.) on Monday night at Lithia Motors Pavilion, making the Raiders 10-3 after their final nonconference game of the regular season. Senior guard Tristen Holmes put up 19 points, eight assists and seven rebounds and junior post Jordan Hunt checked in with 13 points, 10 rebounds and four of SOU’s 15 blocked shots — the team’s highest block total in m
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Senior Chandler Michael, Southern Oregon’s third-ranked 149-pounder, ran his record to 10-0 with a tournament title and junior 184-pounder C.J. McKinnis accompanied him in first place Sunday at the Spokane Open. Michael stayed perfect for the Raiders with five straight wins, three of which were by fall — in 15 seconds in the first round against Southwest Oregon’s Coltyn Ringen, in 21 seconds against Umpqua’s Garrett Russell in the quarterfinals, and
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Two weeks after leaving the C.E. Jeffers Center in Salem with broken hearts, the Southern Oregon men’s basketball team will look to return the favor on tonight as it returns for a semifinal game against Corban in the Cascade Conference Championships. The sixth-seeded Raiders (20-10) and fourth-seeded Warriors (21-8) have a history of going down to the wire: Of their last 11 matchups, nine have been decided by six points or fewer and three have gone to overtime. But they produced their wild
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IRVINE, Calif. — As it has done in all four seasons of existence, the Southern Oregon men’s soccer team took another step forward in 2018. But on Monday afternoon in the second round of the NAIA national championships, No. 4-seeded Rio Grande (Ohio) stopped the No. 13 Raiders from going any further at OC Great Park Soccer Stadium. Nicolas Cam Orellana, a freshman forward from Santiago, Chile, struck 97 seconds into the match and again in the 55th minute, sending Rio Grande to Wednesd
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FOREST GROVE — Justin Acuff reached the 141-pound semifinals and finished fourth place to highlight the Southern Oregon men’s wrestling team’s efforts Sunday at the Mike Clock Open. Acuff started the day with a first-round pin of Southwestern Oregon’s Michael Medina and a 9-5 win over Eastern Oregon’s Tyler Miller. After dropping a semifinal by technical fall to Joey Palmer, Acuff reached the third-place match by pinning Clackamas’ Ricardo Solorio in 1:13. He
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Southern Oregon University 141-pounder Devin Poppen successfully defended his Cascade Conference wrestling title, 149-pounder Chandler Michael captured his first and the Raiders finished fifth in the team standings Saturday at the CCC Championships. Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) won the team championship in the second annual event with 136 points, followed by Menlo (131.5), Providence (124), Montana State-Northern (104.5) and SOU (101.5) to round out the top five teams. Poppen
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Southern Oregon sophomore Makayla Hoyt was named to the NAIA Volleyball Championships All-Tournament team after helping the Raiders to their first national quarterfinal appearance last week. Hoyt, a 6-foot-2 sophomore middle, amassed 48 kills and 17 blocks in five tournament matches — good for averages of 2.5 kills on .293 attacking and 0.9 blocks per set. She was previously named to the All-Cascade Conference and AVCA All-West Region teams. Hoyt joins Sarah Holgen
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EUGENE — Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert says he'll return for his senior season. Herbert announced his decision Wednesday before the Ducks (8-4) left Eugene for the Redbox Bowl. Oregon plays Michigan State on Monday. "As we prepare for our bowl game, I would like to ensure that there are no distractions outside of this game. My commitment to my teammates, our coaches, Duck fans, and the university of Oregon has never been stronger," Herbert said in a statement. Herbert has thrown for 2,
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Cascade Christian football player Dante Olson, a finalist for the FCS defensive player of the year award, was named GoGriz.com's Person of the Year. Here's the story that accompanied the award: ***** The most interesting story about Dante Olson isn't really about Dante Olson at all. Rather it's about his great-grandfather, Dante Natali, who was living in Italy at the time of the Second World War and became such an outspoken critic of the country's fascist regime that Benito
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Danny Miles will forever remember this past weekend, and now he’ll forever be remembered. The legendary Oregon Tech men’s basketball coach was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday in Kansas City. The 1963 Medford High graduate joined the class of 2018 with Arkansas’ Otis Birdsong, Arizona’s Sean Elliott, Houston’s Sidney Moncrief, North Carolina’s Sam Perkins, the late Marvin Webster of Morgan State, USC’s Paul Westphal
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LOGAN, Utah — Selected as the preseason favorite to repeat as Pac-12 champion, Oregon is embracing the challenge and living up to the expectations so far. Ruthy Hebard had 20 points and eight rebounds, Sabrina Ionescu added 15 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 3 Oregon never trailed in beating Utah State 88-58 on Wednesday night. Erin Boley added 14 points for the Ducks and Taylor Chavez chipped in 13 as Oregon (3-0) coasted after shooting 56 percent from the field and finishing with a 36-26
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MARIETTA, Ga. — Sienna Ramirez’s win in her fifth-place match enabled Southern Oregon University to stay at 11th in the teams standings in their fourth trip to the Women’s College Wrestling Association Championships, which concluded on Saturday. Ramirez, a sophomore 143-pounder, defeated fourth-ranked Anna Luciano of King (Tenn.) by 4-0 decision in her placing match to one-up her sixth place of a year ago. She was the only Raider left in action after four others were a win shy
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SOU Sports Information SALEM — Two weeks ago, Corban needed a pair buzzer-beating 3-pointers to knock off Southern Oregon. In the rematch Saturday night at the C.E. Jeffers Center, Aaron Borich and the Raiders needed just one. One of the greatest moments in SOU playoff history now belongs to Borich, a junior guard, after he kept the Raiders’ season alive by delivering a 76-74 win in the semifinal round of the Cascade Conference Championships. With 10 seconds left, Tristen Holmes rebo
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EUGENE – For a Southern Oregon team that has grown accustomed to worst-case scenarios playing out in the final minutes, Wednesday's outcome at the Morse Event Center felt almost as miraculous as the one it avoided. The Raiders still have a pulse after escaping with a 78-77 upset of third-seeded Northwest Christian in the quarterfinal round of the Cascade Conference Championships. Seeded sixth, they watched as Tyrus Hosley’s desperation attempt from 35 feet out bounced off the backboa
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The Southern Oregon University volleyball team’s coaching staff and three student-athletes have earned American Volleyball Coaches Association Northwest Region awards, the AVCA announced Wednesday. Josh Rohlfing, SOU’s 12th-year head coach, was voted NAIA Northwest Region Coach of the Year. Kori Iverson, in her third season on staff, was voted the Northwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year. Junior right-side hitter Taylor Ristvedt and sophomore middle Makayla Hoyt were selected to
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ASHLAND — In its first-ever game at Lithia Motors Pavilion, the No. 22 Southern Oregon men’s basketball team got off to an unfriendly start with the rims but still managed to hit the century mark in a 100-52 defeat of New Hope Christian on Tuesday night. Fourteen different Raiders hit the scoring column, led by senior guard Tristen Holmes’ 15 points. SOU (5-1 overall) was cold from downtown, misfiring on 26 of its 33 attempts, but shot 65 percent from inside the arc (32-of-49).
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ASHLAND — Southern Oregon’s Veronica Coppolino won both of her matches to claim the 143-pound title of the Oregon Women’s Collegiate State Tournament on Sunday at Riehm Arena. Coppolino, a sophomore from San Jose, Calif., took decisions against two unattached opponents: 6-0 over Melissa Jacobs and 7-0 over Kira Satnick. Kirra Saunders added a pair of wins at 123 pounds, going 2-2 on the day. She pinned Eastern Oregon’s Roas Ramirez in 1 minute 9 seconds and earned a 14-6
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CORVALLIS — Apart from a 2-9 record one year into the Jonathan Smith head coaching era, where does Oregon State’s football program stand? “I think we’ve got some optimism,” Smith said after the Beavers ended their season with a 55-15 loss to Oregon at Reser Stadium on Friday afternoon. But, Smith said, there’s a lot of work to do — as the record and that Civil War score would indicate. “I knew what I was coming into, and this staff knew it, and the