Tickets to watch the 2025 Southern Oregon University football team go on sale next week. Last year’s season-ticket holders can renew their spots from Aug. 4 until Aug. 7. All season tickets (including those unclaimed by previous holders) and single-game tickets will be released on Aug. 7.
The National Fastpitch Coaches Association stamped Sarah Kerling’s defensive excellence in center field with a Rawlings NAIA Gold Glove Award on Friday. Kerling, who was also selected this week to the NAIA All-America first team, is the first Southern Oregon outfielder and the third Raider at any position to receive the honor.
As Raider-clad fans waited outside Lithia Motors Pavilion Wednesday afternoon, sirens grew closer, heralding the arrival of the NAIA Champion Southern Oregon University softball team after a parade down Siskiyou Boulevard celebrating their fourth national championship in six years.
A championship parade and celebration of the SOU softball team’s NAIA World Series title is set for Wednesday afternoon. Starting at 3:30 p.m., the Raiders will make their way from Mountain Avenue and Siskiyou Boulevard to the front of Lithia Motors Pavilion for a trophy presentation.
The names, levels of dominance, and routes to the trophy have changed during a once-implausible run of four championships in six years, but one thing has not at the NAIA Softball World Series: Southern Oregon is inevitable.
COLUMBUS, Ga. – One win away from another championship after stealing a sixth consecutive NAIA World Series elimination game, Southern Oregon is testing the limits of how much pressure-cooked heat one team can take during a single trip to the South.
Through two days of the NAIA Opening Round, the Southern Oregon softball team is acting like it has been here before. The Raiders took over the driver’s seat in the Ashland Bracket on Tuesday and are a win away from their seventh World Series berth in eight years.
For the sixth time in seven postseasons, Southern Oregon University will host an NAIA Softball Championship Opening Round bracket when the 48-team tournament begins May 12-15. This will be the second time the Raiders play the Opening Round in Ashland.
The Southern Oregon University football team gave fans an early glimpse of the 2025 season during its annual spring game Saturday afternoon at Raider Stadium.
Coming off an 8-3 season, the Southern Oregon University football team will offer a glimpse of the 2025 squad with its annual spring game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Raider Stadium.
As of Nov. 3, Ashland Community Food Bank has a new director at the reins. Catie Mahoney will serve in the role with guidance from outgoing director Amey Broeker, who will officially retire on Dec. 31 after serving in the food bank role since 2022.
The Ashland City Council will review a proposal from a potential provider to oversee its extreme weather shelter during its regular business meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival has added a second screening showcasing Indigenous filmmakers on Sunday, Nov. 23.
Three and a half years into the war with Russia, Ashland violinist and longtime music teacher Faina Podolnaya is still finding ways to help Ukrainian refugees.
Herbert Rothschild: As the number of ads in The New Yorker has shrunk, it seems as if the wealth of its readership has concentrated, just as one might concentrate the flavor of a sauce by reducing it on the stovetop.
Local artist MaryAnn Shank will share the thoughts behind her newest novel “Sor Juana, My Beloved” at Bloomsbury Books Jan. 26. Shank is a finalist of The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book of the Year 2025 award, awarded by the International Latino Book Association.
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