ASHLAND – Southern Oregon softball player Ayla Davies and track and field athletes Carson Le Bel and Carter Stedman on Monday were voted McDonald's Cascade Conference Athletes of the Week, presented by Urban Edge Network.

Davies, a sophomore from Burns, picked up the Pitcher of the Week award after starting 3-0 on the top-ranked Raiders' season-opening trip. The reigning NAIA Pitcher of the Year posted a 1.40 ERA across 20 innings over the weekend, recording 21 strikeouts in three consecutive complete games. She also delivered the 20th shutout of her young career in a three-hitter at No. 21 Hope International (Calif.).

Le Bel, a three-time All-American pole vaulter from Central Point, got the Indoor Field Athlete of the Week award after posting the second-best mark in the NAIA at Nevada's Wolf Pack Classic. He went 16 feet ¾ inches to clear the automatic-qualifying standard for the NAIA Indoor Championships, placed third out of nine vaulters at the meet, and established a new SOU indoor record in the event.

Stedman – a junior from Roseburg making his SOU track debut after becoming an All-American for the Raider cross country team this fall – won his mile heat and placed sixth out of 41 overall at the same meet, finishing only behind NCAA Division I runners. His time of 4 minutes 16.72 seconds made him a provisional national qualifier and currently ranks 14th on the NAIA performance list. He was voted the CCC's Indoor Track Athlete of the Week.