Box Score LA GRANDE – The 14th-ranked Southern Oregon football team continued its assault on opponents and the program record books Saturday, downing Eastern 63-35 Saturday afternoon for its fifth consecutive victory.

Southern Oregon improves to 7-2 with the win and sets up a likely NAIA Game of the Week Senior Day matchup with No. 7 Montana Tech next Saturday at Raider Stadium with the Frontier Conference championship on the line. Eastern Oregon falls to 4-5 with the loss.

The Raiders' streak of four straight games with more than 700 yards of total offense came to an end, but SOU still finished with 642 total yards, including a record 550 passing yards for Austin Dodge (Vancouver, Wash./Skyview). Dodge breaks his own record of 526 passing yards, set last week in the Raiders' upset of No. 6 Carroll. He completed 32 of 55 pass attempts with four touchdowns and one interception, while Chris Kammel (Medford, Ore./Phoenix) added a touchdown pass on a fake field goal attempt. Dodge extended his own SOU season passing records to 3,839 yards and 31 touchdowns.

Southern Oregon raised its season point total to a program record of 498, surpassing the previous record of 474 points scored by the 2001 team. The Raiders' 55.3 points-per-game average is on pace to break the NAIA season record of 54.7.

Patrick Donahue (Los Angeles, Calif./Franklin) caught eight passes for 143 yards and a touchdown, while Cole McKenzie (Red Bluff, Calif./Red Bluff) added seven catches for 119 yards and two scores. Donahue's 78 receptions this season break a tie for the SOU record, with McKenzie's 68 catches close behind. McKenzie's two touchdowns gave him an SOU record 14 this season, and his 1,215 season receiving yards set a new program record, surpassing Spike Gordon's 1965 record of 1,163. Donahue is not far behind with 1,147 receiving yards.

Manny Barragan (Yreka, Calif./Yreka) rushed for 63 yards on 18 carries and scored one rushing touchdown, and he tied Donahue for the team lead with eight receptions and tallied 98 yards through the air. Mike Olson (Colfax, Calif./Colfax) caught five passes for a team-high 159 yards with one score and added three rushing touchdowns for four total scores.

Kalii Robinson (Los Angeles, Calif./Dorsey) led the SOU defense with 12 tackles, including two for loss, while Mike Seifert (Springfield, Ore./Thurston) added 11.5 tackles and a pair for loss. Daniel Breaux (Greenfield, Calif./Greenfield) and Jake Boyd (Oakridge, Ore./Oakridge) each recovered fumbles, and Juwuan Brown (Long Beach, Calif./Long Beach Poly) picked off a pass for SOU.

Jason Simonis completed 19 of 31 pass attempts for three touchdowns and an interception, and the EOU quarterback also ran for a game-high 138 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries. Jace Billingsly led the Mountaineers with 71 receiving yards and two scores on six catches, and Justin Reynolds added a touchdown grab.

Southern Oregon received the opening kickoff and drove 67 yards in less than two minutes, scoring on an 8-yard pass from Dodge to McKenzie. The Raiders went up 14-0 a few minutes later when Kammel passed to Clay Sierra (La Crescenta, Calif./Crescenta Valley) in the end zone from seven yards out on a fake field goal attempt, and SOU took a three-score lead late in the first quarter when Olson ran it in from one yard out.

A fumble recovery by Eastern Oregon in SOU's end zone gave the Mountaineers their first score right as the first quarter ended, and an 18-yard Simonis rushing touchdown after Dodge's interception made it 21-14. The EOU defense again stopped the SOU offense, and Simonis led an 11-play drive that tied the score on a 6-yard pass to Billingsley.

The Raiders responded on the following drive, as Dodge hit McKenzie for 37 yards on the first play before a roughing the kicker penalty on fourth-down gave SOU first-and-10 at the EOU 11-yard line. Dodge found Olson from 12 yards out on the next play to put the Raiders up 28-21. Southern Oregon got the ball back a couple minutes later and drove 80 yards on nine plays to go up 35-21 on a 9-yard Dodge pass to McKenzie.

After halftime, the SOU defense held Eastern Oregon and the SOU offense shook off a long field when it got the ball on its own 2-yard line. Dodge hit Olson for 67 yards on the first play, and seven plays later Olson ran it in from three yards away to give SOU a 42-21 advantage.

A long return on the ensuing kickoff set EOU up with a short field, and on the second play of the drive Simonis hit Billingsley from 28 yards out for the touchdown to make it 42-38. A couple of possessions later, the Raiders put together a 12-play, 85-yard drive that took almost four minutes, capping it with a 4-yard run by Olson.

The Raiders' next drive took 14 plays and nearly four minutes before Dodge found Donahue on fourth-down for a seven-yard touchdown. Southern Oregon's final points came a few minutes later, when Dodge connected with Olson for 60 yards and followed it up with an 18-yard completion to Justin Otaguro (Honolulu, Hawaii/Roosevelt). Barragan broke through the line for 12 yards on the next play to score the touchdown and put SOU up 63-28.

Eastern Oregon scored its last touchdown on the next drive when Simonis found Reynolds in the end zone from 20 yards out to make it 63-35.