To the stunned chagrin of another upset victim, the Southern Oregon men’s basketball team is no longer just happy to be here. The No. 11-seeded Raiders have made themselves at home in the NAIA National Tournament after knocking off No. 3 seed The Master’s (Calif.), 76-71, in Saturday’s second round at the MacArthur Center.
With a 78-51 win Saturday, the No. 2-seeded Southern Oregon University Raiders women’s basketball team went to 33-0 on the year, matching the program’s single-season wins record and advancing to the final site in Sioux City, Iowa, for the first time since the NAIA’s two divisions merged and the bracket expanded to 64 teams three years ago.
For the fourth year in a row, the Southern Oregon women’s basketball team is through to the second round of the NAIA National Tournament. In Friday night’s 86-52 first-round win over UC Merced at Lithia Motors Pavilion, the Raiders made it look routine. The task gets taller, literally and figuratively, in Saturday’s 5 p.m. second-round matchup against No. 7 seed Wayland Baptist (Texas).
Hundreds of high school ski racers tested their skill and endurance competing in the Alpine Ski Racing State Championships at Mt. Ashland Ski Area from Wednesday to Friday. More than 350 young athletes from across Oregon took part in the three-day event, including a warmup day and two days of competition.
On Tuesday night in front of a packed-in Lithia Motors Pavilion crowd, the SOU Raiders women’s basketball team stamped their historic run through the circuit by defeating No. 25 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho), 56-49, in the title game of the CCC Championships for the third time in four seasons. At 31-0, they’ll be the first team in CCC history to enter the NAIA National Tournament with an unbeaten record.
The NAIA Women’s Basketball National Championship’s first and second rounds are returning to Lithia Motors Pavilion. SOU, like last season, was among 12 hosts named Thursday by the national office.
The best high school downhill skiers from around Oregon will converge at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area Wednesday through Friday for the Oregon High School 2024-2025 Alpine Ski Racing State Championships.
Uncertainty reigns because the federal government’s freeze on funding government programs is creating myriad concerns, including the possibility that funding for trail work on popular national forests in Southern Oregon and far Northern California may not be provided.
The resurgent Southern Oregon men’s wrestling team, for the first time since 2018, is back on top of the Cascade Conference. With 10 automatic qualifiers pushed through to the NAIA Championships, the Raiders are set up to reestablish themselves on the national stage, too.
The Southern Oregon women’s basketball team became the first in Cascade Conference history to finish the regular season undefeated after an 87-65 victory over Multnomah on Saturday at Lithia Motors Pavilion.
Herbert Rothschild: Now that deep cuts in spending are planned for education, health, nutrition, housing, community development, environmental protection, energy assistance and so much else, it’s clear that our federal government itself is assaulting the people whom all its military spending is ostensibly meant to protect from assault.
An Ashland resident arrested for kidnapping another man and assaulting multiple strangers and police officers in downtown Ashland April 12 was indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury Thursday.
A looming fiscal cliff could force Rogue Valley Transportation District to cut routes and endure an almost 50% drop in ridership in 2026. The local bus service, which serves most cities in Jackson County, has already instituted a strict fare enforcement policy, which wasn’t in place during the pandemic because it helped assist the homeless and unemployed.
Gov. Tina Kotek fired Jessica Kampfe, the head of the Oregon Public Defense Commission, on Thursday morning. The agency oversees indigent defense for thousands of people charged with crimes who cannot afford a lawyer.
Amanda served nearly 30 years as a teacher in Phoenix and Talent elementary schools, primarily in second- and third-grade classrooms.
Ask Strider: This week, the Dog About Town says everyone is invited to Ashland.news, and everyone should be invited to a family dinner, no matter what their dietary preferences. As long as we’re all grateful for what we’ve got. And he means it, too.
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