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Setbacks could have derailed them. Presented with unique challenges, former South Medford High basketball standouts Ashley Bolston and Andee Ritter both chose to keep fighting. Their toughness is paying off now. The 6-foot-2 Bolston is averaging 13 points, six rebounds and a team-best 5.3 assists for NCAA Division I Portland State University. The senior guard nearly recorded a quadruple-double in a 92-79 victory over the University of Portland on December 1, tallying 19 points, 12 assists, 10 re
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BUTTE, Mont. — Southern Oregon scored 24 unanswered fourth-quarter points to take the lead from Montana Tech, but the Orediggers tied it in the final minute and won it overtime, 38-31, on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Coliseum. Montana Tech’s Jet Campbell, who started the season as a receiver, passed for 266 yards and four touchdowns. The last, on third-down in overtime, was a 21-yarder lobbed to Trevor Hoffman streaking to the corner of the end zone. The Diggers (4-4 overall, 4-4 Fro
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KLAMATH FALLS — Senior guard Tristen Holmes’ personal milestone coincided with No. 22 Southern Oregon’s highest-quality win of the season Saturday afternoon, an 88-67 drubbing of defending Cal Pac Conference champion Antelope Valley (Calif.) at the Lithia-Oregon Tech Classic. The North Medford alum led the Raiders (7-1 overall) with 18 points and, in the process, became the 21st player to join SOU’s 1,000-point club. His four-year total is 1,009 with a 6 of 12 performance
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CALDWELL, Idaho — Seventh-ranked College of Idaho grinded down Southern Oregon inside and pulled away to win the title game of the Cascade Conference Championships, 70-55, on Tuesday night at the J.A. Albertson Center. After five straight points from Aaron Borich trimmed C of I’s lead to 53-46 with 8:57 left, the Yotes held the Raiders to one field goal over the next seven minutes and went on a decisive 15-4 run. Senior center Matt Meyers scored a season-high 19 points in helping the
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Nearly five dozen people were kicked out of Reser Stadium during last Friday’s Civil War football game, nearly all for alcohol-related infractions. The annual rivalry game between the Oregon State Beavers and Oregon Ducks brings out the partisan fervor in fans of both programs, and this year’s tilt in Corvallis — won by UO in convincing fashion, 55-15 — was no exception. In some cases, however, that team spirit apparently is fueled by spirits of another kind. According to
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The Southern Oregon men’s soccer team made a five-spot improvement for the second week in a row in the NAIA Top 25 coaches’ poll, settling in at No. 14 in Tuesday’s rankings. For the first time this season, the Raiders (13-2-1 overall, 10-0-1 Cascade Conference) are the highest-ranked team in the CCC. Corban (12-2-1, 9-1-1) went from 10th to 16th as the result of a 2-1 loss at Eastern Oregon, and Rocky Mountain (12-4-0, 8-3-0) went from 22nd to out of the poll after getting ups
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RENO, Nev. — Tanner Fischer was the first Southern Oregon wrestler to reach the quarterfinals in two years at the Reno Tournament of Champions, and he and Devin Poppen were one win short of placing Thursday for the Raiders. SOU was 15th of 25 teams in the points standings. Fischer, ranked fourth in the NAIA at 197 pounds, entered the tournament with an 11-2 record and won his first three matches. He started with pins of Cal Poly’s Willem de Boer in 3:44 and Clackamas’s Darry Ai
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Gabby Sandoval was selected the Cascade Conference softball pitcher of the week on Monday for the second time this month after collecting two wins and two saves in a pair of Southern Oregon sweeps over the weekend. Sandoval — a junior from Anaheim, Calif., who last year set the Raiders’ single-season wins record by going 27-6 with a 2.07 ERA — is already 4-1 with a 1.69 ERA this season. In her third and fourth wins, both complete games, she allowed four hits and only an unearne
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MARIETTA, Ga. — Southern Oregon sophomore Sienna Ramirez advanced to the 143-pound semifinal round on Friday at the Women’s College Wrestling Association Championships, clinching All-America accolades for the second year in a row at the tournament. Ramirez, a sophomore from Lakewood, Wash., entered the bracket unranked and upset second-seeded Ashlynn Ortega of King (Tenn.), 4-0 in the quarterfinals, becoming the second Raider to ever get through to the semis. She’s also the tea
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ASHLAND — Southern Oregon’s recent shooting issues have been at least temporary solved by some home cooking at Lithia Motors Pavilion. The 13th-ranked Raiders hit triple digits in the scoring column in back-to-back games for the first time in 25 seasons, completing a weekend Cascade Conference sweep Saturday with a 106-71 drubbing of Evergreen (Wash.). After shooting a season-high 57 percent in Friday’s 100-89 defeat of Northwest (Wash.), they connected at a 58-percent clip (41
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HELENA, Mont. — Within the context of college athletics, the Southern Oregon men’s soccer team was briefly staring down one of the longest and most tortured bus rides imaginable. But after storming back for a 3-1 win Sunday at Carroll (Mont.), the 900-mile trek home will be one the Raiders can savor, with a Cascade Conference championship in tow. The 14th-ranked Raiders (14-2-2 overall, 11-0-2 CCC) successfully completed their regular-season title defense, finishing with 35 points to
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — An extended stay at the NAIA Volleyball Championships is almost assuredly in the works for Southern Oregon University after Wednesday’s 25-16, 25-19, 28-26 win over Saint Xavier (Ill.) at the Tyson Events Center, which made the Raiders the only unbeaten team left in Pool G. Another ultra-efficient offensive display, which yielded a .364 attacking average, and steady all-around defense took the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference champion Cougars (28-11) out
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Any concerns about Southern Oregon’s rust levels were put to rest within minutes of the 10th-ranked Raiders’ sweep of No. 24 Jamestown (N.D.) on Tuesday afternoon during pool play at the Tyson Events Center. In their first match of the NAIA Volleyball Championships — and their first competition in two weeks — the Raiders (27-3) pummeled the Jimmies (22-9) 25-15, 25-18, 25-23 for the Pool G victory, attacking .609 with 16 kills and two errors in th
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ASHLAND — A week after getting run out of the gym at Corban, 10th-ranked Southern Oregon didn’t miss its chance to get back at the No. 22 Warriors in the semifinal round of the Cascade Conference Championships. The tables turned Friday night at Lithia Motors Pavilion, where the top-seeded Raiders dominated at the net with 14 blocks for a 25-14, 25-17, 25-22 victory. All-star middle Makayla Hoyt had seven of them — including a career-high five of the solo variety — and fel
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ASHLAND — Madison Holly’s 29-point outburst carried fifth-seeded College of Idaho to a 73-70 upset of fourth-seeded Southern Oregon in the quarterfinal round of the Cascade Conference Championships on Tuesday night at Lithia Motors Pavilion. Holly, a senior guard, went 9-of-12 from the field with four 3-pointers and a pair of second-half three-point plays. She helped the Yotes (16-13) knock off the Raiders (16-11) for the second time in five days after they’d dropped the previo
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REDDING, Calif. — Senior forward Destinee Jones hit the go-ahead free throw with four-tenths of a second left, topping off her best night as a Raider and giving Southern Oregon a 59-58 win over Simpson in the season opener Monday at the James M. Grant Center. Jones finished with career highs of 14 points, 10 rebounds and four steals, helping the 12th-ranked Raiders overcome 27-percent shooting and a 6 of 35 showing from 3. Trailing 56-53 with less than three minutes to play, freshman Kalei
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Former Cascade Christian football player Dante Olson, a linebacker at Montana, is one of three top vote-getters for the Buck Buchanan Award, which goes to the nation’s top FCS defensive player. He will travel to Frisco, Texas, for the awards presentation on Jan. 4, the organization announced Tuesday. The Grizzlies’ first-team all-Big Sky honoree finished the regular season as the nation’s top tackler with 151 total takedowns, averaging an FCS-best 13.7 per game in his breakout
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CORVALLIS — In what may have been his final Civil War, Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert ended the afternoon in street clothes. Herbert, a projected early-round pick if he chooses to enter the 2019 NFL Draft, was forced to leave Friday’s rivalry game due to a shoulder injury sustained on a second-quarter sack. Oregon coach Mario Cristobal did not have an update on Herbert following Friday’s runaway 55-15 victory over Oregon State at soggy Reser Stadium. “He took a shot on
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ASHLAND — Entering overtime, the Southern Oregon University men’s soccer team had done just about everything right in the second half except for one major thing — get a goal. “Honestly, I never thought it was going to come,” SOU head coach Davie Carmichael said with a laugh. “We had so many different chances, but it seemed like (UC Merced’s) keeper was having the game of his life.” But, leave it to a friendly bounce to send the Raiders to Southern
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ASHLAND — Tristen Holmes’ college plans didn’t always include basketball. It was easy to understand why: On top being an all-state selection in basketball, Holmes was a highly-touted defensive back during his prep career at North Medford High School. “I never really thought about (playing basketball) coming out of high school because I was planning on playing football,” Holmes recalls. But, when it was time to make a decision back in early 2015, two things influence