Box Score DICKINSON, N.D. – It is possible that the hottest NAIA football team in the nation has a record of 2-3.

That's not exactly how the Southern Oregon University Raiders drew it up, but their argument got stronger Saturday afternoon with a 66-21 win at Dickinson State, giving them 195 points in the last three weeks and all the momentum in the world with three straight home games coming up.

The Raiders, who boosted their Frontier Conference record to 2-2, put up 42 points in the first half after hitting 41 in last week's win at Eastern Oregon. Junior quarterback Austin Dodge (Vancouver, Wash./Skyview) had the keys to the floodgates again, completing 32 of 39 passes for 460 yards and five touchdowns in the most efficient outing of his career.

Dodge, the Frontier's reigning offensive player of the week, helped sophomore receiver Jeremy Scottow (Medford, Ore./North Medford) to a career day with scoring connections of four and 16 yards in the game's first 20 minutes. The North Medford High product caught seven balls for 129 yards in all.

The Bluehawks (0-5 overall, 0-5 Frontier) totaled 17 passing yards and 172 total compared to SOU's 695 yards – the sixth-most in school history and the best mark of its season. Dodge's total of 460 was only the seventh-best SOU single-game mark, but he owns five of the six ahead of him.

Zach Marshall (Camas, Wash./Camas) rushed accumulated 79 yards on 12 carries and got the Raiders going with a 1-yard TD run to cap an 82-yard drive to open the game. Freshman tailback Sean Tow (Diamond Springs, Calif./Union Mine) had 59 yards and two scores on 14 carries in the follow-up his 82-yard performance at Eastern.

The Raiders took their biggest lead at 59-7 in the third quarter when Dodge hit Dylan Young (Salem, Ore./North Salem) from 34 yards out.

Nine SOU players had at least one reception. Matt Retlaff (80 yards) and Ryan Retzlaff (Medford, Ore./South Medford) (76) had six apiece while Young (76) and Marshall (66) both had five. Ryan Retzlaff (Medford, Ore./South Medford)'s 21-yard TD catch was his fourth in the last three games.

Southern Oregon was just as dominant on the other side of the ball, as the defense got to Dickinson quarterback Kaler Ray for five sacks, held the Bluehawks' run-heavy attack to 3.2 yards per carry and forced them into 10 punts.

Senior linebacker Laurence Calcagno (Canby, Ore./Canby) had nine tackles while Mylz Blake (Los Angeles, Calif./Palisades Charter) and Trevor Kuyper (Redding, Calif./Central Valley) had six each. Kuyper, a senior, also sacked Ray twice and Michael Bibbee (Eugene, Ore./North Eugene) was credited with 1.5 sacks.

Jesse Carney led the Bluehawks with 17 rushes for 97 yards and two touchdowns.

Dylan Carlson (Klamath Falls, Ore./Mazama) had the other score for SOU's ground game, which produced an average of 5.1 yards on 40 carries.

SOU will make its season debut at Raider Stadium next Saturday in a key clash against 21^st-ranked Montanta Tech, which shared the Frontier title with the Raiders last year but dipped to 1-3 on Saturday with a 13-6 loss at 18^th-ranked Rocky Mountain.

Every team in the Frontier has a least one loss in conference play now after Eastern Oregon scored 21 points in the fourth quarter Saturday to notch a monumental upset over third-ranked Carroll College, 35-31. The Raiders also have a game left against everyone ahead of them in the standings except Rocky.