No. 7-ranked Montana Tech soundly beat Southern Oregon University 37-14 in NAIA football action Saturday in Ashland. The Orediggers improved to 4-0 and dropped the Raiders to 1-2 entering their final non-divisional game.
Ariel De Dios Cruz and Luis Siebenhaar scored two goals apiece as the Southern Oregon men’s soccer team poured it on in a 7-0 win against Simpson at Raider Stadium’s Laurel Field. The Raiders, after receiving votes in this week’s NAIA Top 25 coaches’ poll, put up their highest goal total in two years.
SOU’s football team kicked off its 2025 season with a commanding 59-0 win over Simpson — the Raiders first shutout and most lopsided win since 2023.
The Southern Oregon University Sports Hall of Fame will admit six new members this fall, welcoming more of the top performers in school history. The Class of 2025 is comprised of Eric Avalia, Brock Gutches, Matt McDowell, Max Perry, Kelsey Randall, and Eric Thompson.
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.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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