claussen
Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
94
Winner Southern Oregon SOU 26-1, 19-1 CCC
75
Corban University CRB 16-13, 11-9 CCC
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
26-1, 19-1 CCC
94
Final
75
Corban University CRB
16-13, 11-9 CCC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Southern Oregon SOU 20 29 22 23 94
Corban University CRB 20 14 14 27 75

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | SOU Sports Information

Claussen breaks SOU 3-point record as Raiders cruise at Corban

SALEM – Sixth-ranked Southern Oregon's dominant run through the regular season was completed Saturday night with a 94-75 win against Corban at the C.E. Jeffers Center, and now the real fun begins.

Ashley Claussen rang up 25 points, five assists and five steals to lead the Raiders into the postseason with a record of 26-1 overall and 19-1 in the Cascade Conference. SOU became the second team in the last 11 years to drop less than two games through the CCC slate and matched its own program regular-season wins record.

Claussen also went 5-for-10 from 3-point range to establish a new SOU single-season record with 82 makes from downtown. The previous record of 80 belonged to Rhiannon Dickinson (2008-09), but Claussen's seventh game of the season with at least five 3-pointers changed that.

SOU will take the No. 1 seed into the conference tournament, which begins Tuesday at Mountain Avenue Gym with a 7 p.m. quarterfinal matchup against eighth-seeded College of Idaho.

The Raiders' 10th consecutive win overall was tightly contested early; Corban led 23-21 two minutes into the second quarter before two Sydney Mullings buckets and a Claussen 3-pointer swung the score for good. SOU ended the half on a 21-6 run – capped by back-to-back 3s by Demi Sahlinger and Claussen – to go up 49-34 at the break, and a 13-2 spurt in the first four minutes of the third quarter put the game out of reach.

The Warriors fell to 16-13 overall and 11-9 in the CCC. They'll have the No. 5 seed in the conference tourney and open play at fourth-seeded Northwest Christian.

Sahlinger finished with a career-high 13 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals. Tiani Bradford scored 12, Courtney Setzer had 11 points and seven rebounds off the bench, and Autumn Durand was busy on the boards again with nine points, 10 rebounds and four assists.

The Raiders shot 49 percent from the field and went 12-for-28 from beyond the arc, their most 3-point makes since hitting 14 on Jan. 23 against Evergreen. They dominated inside, too, with a 38-16 advantage in points in the paint.

Corban, which shot at a pedestrian clip of 39 percent from the field, was led by Jade Lowery's 20 points and Julia Young's 18.
 
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