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Photo courtesy of Sherry Rogers.
9
MSU-Northern MSUN 0-5 , 0-4
82
Winner Southern Oregon SOU 3-1 , 3-1
MSU-Northern MSUN
0-5 , 0-4
9
Final
82
Southern Oregon SOU
3-1 , 3-1
Winner
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
MSUN MSU-Northern 0 3 6 0 9
SOU Southern Oregon 41 21 13 7 82

Game Recap: Football | | SOU Sports Information

Raiders rough up MSU-Northern, set school points record

ASHLAND – The Southern Oregon University football team took care of its touchdown-pass problem early Saturday against Montana State-Northern, then went on to keep taking care of it until the fourth-ranked Raiders had achieved the highest point total in school history.

SOU defeated the Lights 82-9 in Frontier Conference play at Raider Stadium, its third straight win and MSU-Northern's fifth straight loss. All 12 Raider touchdown drives were expeditious; eight of them took less than one minute to complete and the longest lasted 2:38.

The Raiders are 3-1 in the Frontier with a conference-wide bye week on deck. They'll return to action Oct. 10 at 16th-ranked Montana Western, which had been the Frontier's only unbeaten team until a 10-9 home loss Saturday against Carroll that created a four-way tie atop the standings.

SOU came into Saturday having scored 10 offensive touchdowns, but none through the air after previously owning a 44-game streak with at least one passing TD. That changed on the game's first play from scrimmage Saturday, when – after JJ Latu took the opening kickoff 64 yards to Northern's 31-yard line – Tanner Trosin aired out a pass that landed with Matt Retzlaff in the end zone.

That sequence was a harbinger of sorts. And SOU's next drive – a nine-play, 76-yard effort that ended with Adonis Griffin's first receiving TD as a Raider (3 yards) – was an outlier in length. Karrington Jones intercepted Jess Krahn to set the Raiders up again, and Kamerun Smith threw a screen pass to Melvin Mason that went 44 yards for a touchdown and a 28-0 lead eight minutes into the game.

Following another three-and-out and a blocked punt by Lantz Worthington, the first play of SOU's fifth drive was an 18-yard rushing TD via a direct snap to Sean Tow, who was making his season debut. By the time two more drives that lasted less than a minute each were over, the first one ending with a 16-yard Retzlaff rushing TD and the next a 13-yard pass to Sean Angel from Smith, the Raiders had their highest-scoring quarter in program history and a 41-0 lead.

SOU's previous highs for points in a quarter (35) and points in a game were established in a 76-29 win at Montana Western on Oct. 20, 2012.

The Raiders led 62-3 at halftime after a 73-yard pass from Smith to Zack Davis with 24 seconds left. They ended up with 686 yards of offense on 70 plays, including 469 yards in the first half.

Trosin completed eight of 12 passes for 135 yards and three TDs, Smith completed six of eight for 167 yards and four TDs, and Jack Singler made his SOU debut and completed eight of 13 for 67 yards.

Davis ended up with two TD catches, the other a 27-yard job from Smith. Retzlaff had three scores, also making a 43-yard connection with Trosin in the second quarter, and ended with three grabs for 89 yards. And Mason added three catches for 57 yards and a TD to go with 110 rushing yards on eight carries.

Tow ended his first game of the season with 56 rushing yards on six carries. Louis Macklin rushed 41 yards on eight tries with a TD.

Jesse Needles logged his first score of the season in the third quarter on an eight-yard run, and Bobby Lum's first career TD, a six-yard run, gave the Raiders their record with 5:49 left in the game.

Twenty-seven different Raiders made tackles, led by career-high efforts from Sam Woods and Kevin Blueford Jr., who made seven apiece. Woods also had 1 ½ of SOU's six sacks, and Tyson Cooper was credited with 2 1/2.

Northern entered the game having gone 29 straight drives over two games without a score. The streak ended at 35 with Jamie Toscano's second-quarter field goal, and Krahn hit Qwaundre Yancy with a 25-yard pass for the only Lights TD with 3:31 left in the third quarter.
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