I’ve had a couple requests for the Ashland Pilots regular season schedule, so here it is – for the month of July at least. The Pilots take on South Medford, St. Mary’s and North Medford this week. Head coach Josh Leedy said that by this time next week, everybody will know which teams are the [...]
Ashland’s eighth grade baseball team placed second in the first-ever Middle School Baseball Association district tournament Sunday at The Yard. Ashland beat South Medford in the first round and Central Point in a wild nine-inning semifinal game to advance to the finals, where it fell to Glide 18-9. The MSBA essentially replaced Babe Ruth in southern [...]
The 11-12 Little League all-star tournament bracket is set – just click on the picture to view it. The double-elimination tourney will be played in Medford this year, July 3-9 at the Medford American Little League fields behind Dairy Queen. Ashland opens against Ore-Cal. A win there mostly likely sets up an Ashland-Medford Blue second-round [...]
It hasn’t happened yet, but all indications are it is going to: SOU will make a run at leaving the NAIA for NCAA Division II. The application must be in by June 1. After that, there’s a two-year probation period, after which the Raiders will, if all goes well, finally have a home again for [...]
Ashland’s 2009 Little League All-Star team was announced recently. Here’s the team, as picked by the managers. Sean A., Eric C., Jerry C., Chase G., Tommy H., Sky L., Collin M., Max M., Bryce R., Wyatt T., Sebastian W., James W. Ashland will be managed by Mike Rogan. I’ve coached many of these kids over [...]
Former Ashland High and current Oregon State pitcher Sam Gaviglio hauled in a few more accolades last week. Here’s the story. And here’s more on Gaviglio, courtesy of the OSU Web site: Sam Gaviglio won 10 games for the Beavers this season, setting what is believed to be a school record for the most wins [...]
This, from local soccer guru Thierry Chouard. Major League Soccer Camps for Youth coming to Ashland Young soccer players from Ashland and surrounding communities will be able to train with visiting Major League Soccer coaches at the Major League Soccer camp to be held June 22 – 26 at Ashland Middle School. The camp is [...]
The meet will be limited to just two days this year: June 15 and June 22, 6-8 p.m. each day. As usual, it will be held at the Ashland High track. Here’s the schedule of events: START TIMES FOR RUNNING EVENTS START TIME FOR FIELD EVENTS 6:00p 50m Dash (ages 11-teen) 6:00p Long Jump (ages [...]
A coach who’s won two national championships says Ashland’s own Sam Gaviglio was one of the best freshmen pitchers in the country. Here’s the story. Also, I tracked down Josh Leedy, who will take over as head coach of Ashland’s American Legion single-A team this summer, and he said that the Pilots start their season [...]
Sticking with the Tidings’ all naked, all the time theme, it’s about time I expose this University of Oregon Frisbee fiasco. It seems that the school’s ultimate Frisbee men’s squad believes that combining flying plastic disks with flipity-flopity man parts is a perfectly sane idea. Fertility be damned, the Ducks played a “naked point” against Oregon [...]
