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.
For the first time in the three-year history of the program, the Southern Oregon University beach volleyball team is headed to the NAIA Invitational. The Raiders received an at-large bid on Monday to take the eighth and final spot at the tournament in Greeneville, Tennessee.
Southern Oregon hit the 30-win mark for the 10th consecutive full season by finishing off a four-game sweep of Bushnell on Saturday, 7-0 and 14-2 at Schwab Field in Eugene. The top-ranked Raiders upped their record to 30-2 overall and 13-1 in the Cascade Conference. They play two against No. 2-ranked Oregon Tech on Wednesday before hosting Corban over the weekend.
The top-ranked SOU Raiders softball team (25-1 overall, 9-0 Cascade Conference) matched the best start in team history with Saturday’s 8-0 and 9-1 victories, finishing off both in five innings. Ari Williams, a junior right fielder, went 6-for-6 with seven RBIs, a double, a triple and an inside-the-park home run during the doubleheader.
A giant what-if clouded Southern Oregon’s historic run as the season ended in heartbreak Saturday in the NAIA Women’s Basketball Championship quarterfinals. Top-seeded Bethel (Tenn.) dinged the No. 2-seeded Raiders’ perfect record and knocked them out of the tournament by storming back for a 74-70 win at the Tyson Events Center.
The ride is over. In the NAIA Men’s Basketball Championship quarterfinal round, Southern Oregon finally ran out of gas. Defending national champ Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.), the Duer Quadrant’s top seed, stopped the No. 11-seeded Raiders 69-56 on Saturday evening at Municipal Auditorium.
SOU’s men’s basketball team took down a third consecutive conference champion and higher-seeded opponent in Friday’s NAIA Championship Round of 16, defeating No. 7-seeded Keiser (Fla.) 83-79 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. At 3 p.m. PDT Saturday, they’ll face defending national champion and top-seeded Freed-Hardeman in the national championship tournament quarterfinals.
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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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