Box Score ASHLAND – The Montana Western Bulldogs couldn't have asked for much more than the opening they had for one half Saturday afternoon against the 22^nd-ranked Southern Oregon football team.

They also couldn't have done much less with it, and the Raiders made them pay. Austin Dodge (Vancouver, Wash./Skyview) hit Dylan Young (Salem, Ore./North Salem) with four second-half touchdown passes, the Raider defense pitched a second-half shutout and SOU turned a one-point lead into a 51-16 Frontier Conference rout of UMW at Raider Stadium for its sixth straight win.

The Raiders (6-2 overall, 6-1 conference) turned the ball over on four occasions before halftime but Connor Greth's 34-yard field goal  was all UMW had to show for those stolen possessions. Aldrick Rosas (Orland, Calif./Orland)' 24-yard kick gave SOU the advantage back at half, 17-16, and the Raiders unloaded from there.

Dodge had two of those turnovers, but his first two tosses of the second half went for TDs of 28 and 53 yards to Young that opened up the game. Dodge completed 35 of 51 passes for 443 yards and seven TDs – one shy of matching the single-game school record he set three weeks ago. And his 41 on the year are one off the school record he set in 2012.

Young brought in seven passes for 125 yards, Ryan Retzlaff (Medford, Ore./South Medford) had nine catches for 123 yards and a score and Matt Retzlaff (Medford, Ore./South Medford) caught eight balls for 103 yards and two TDs. Young and Ryan Retzlaff (Medford, Ore./South Medford) have both hit triple digits in three straight games.

The Raiders also got more production out of their running game than they had in a month courtesy of two freshmen. Melvin Mason (Vacaville, Calif./Vacaville) rushed 151 yards on 23 carries and Sean Tow (Diamond Springs, Calif./Union Mine) amassed 77 yards on 16.

The Bulldogs (3-4, 3-4), a long way from their 38-34 comeback win against SOU on Sept. 7, have lost four straight. The bad news began rolling in for them on their first play from scrimmage when running back Sam Rutherford, who averages 135 yards per game on the ground, was hurt on a five-yard carry and never returned.

SOU's defense was markedly better than in the teams' first clash, too. It limited UMW rushers to 3.1 yards per carry compared to 6.2 the first time around and picked off quarterback Tyler Hulse twice.

Laurence Calcagno (Canby, Ore./Canby) and Josh Leff (San Clemente, Calif./San Clemente) recorded SOU's picks and Calcagno added a team-high 8 ½ tackles and forced a fumble. Leff, who also had two interceptions last week, recorded six tackles and picked up that fumble.

After Greth's go-ahead field goal, the Bulldog offense came up empty on nine straight drives.

The Raiders scored on five of their six drives in the second half with Matt Retzlaff (Medford, Ore./South Medford) tacking on the final TD on a six-yard grab. Retzlaff was credited with an 18-yard TD catch in the first half when the Raiders ran a hook-and-ladder to perfection: Dodge passed horizontally to Ryan Retlzaff, who pitched it to Matt for an easy score.

Hulse went 23-for-42 with 199 yards and a pair of TD passes for the Bulldogs, and Dylan Kramer rushed 17 times for 75 yards. Kasey Griffith came up with eight solo tackles, seven assisted and a forced fumble for the UMW defense.

SOU is now 11-0 at Raider Stadium under head coach Craig Howard. It executed a similar routine last Saturday against Montana State-Northern – going into halftime down 10-7 and winning 55-28.

The Raiders will hit the road next week for the first time in a month to face seventh-ranked Carroll College (7-1, 6-1) with first place on the line. The Saints were 42-14 winners Saturday at MSU-Northern.