PRESHO - The Lyman Raiders sewed up the Western Great Plains Conference football title with a 30-6 win over New Underwood on Friday night.

The Raiders (7-0 overall, 6-0 conference) got a monster performance from running back Dawson Jandreau - 26 carries for 289 yards and two touchdowns - as they pulled away from a scrappy New Underwood team in the second half.

"The kids came out a little bit flat to start the game, but they responded well in the second half," Lyman head coach Michael Kieffer said. "I thought it was good for us. That's the first time this year that we've really had to play all four quarters."

The Raiders got all they wanted in the first half of the game as New Underwood moved the ball fairly well on a cool night with no wind. The Tigers had two first-half drives go deep into Lyman territory that both ended on fourth down. They were drives that could have conceivably changed much of the game's complexion.

"I think that was huge," New Underwood head coach Clint Nelson said. "When you get down there into the red zone against a good team like Lyman, you have to convert."

Kieffer was actually a little disappointed in his team in that situation, despite coming up with the stops.

"That kind of ticked me off," Kieffer said. "They didn't do anything different there, the boys just kind of decided that New Underwood was getting close so they better start playing some defense. We could have brought that intensity to start the game and we didn't."

The Tigers (5-2, 3-2) scored on a wild play at the end of the first half when quarterback Collin Crosbie rolled to his left and threw a ball to tight end Mason Hall that Lyman defender Shae McClanahan got a hand on, but the ball squeezed through to Hall and he took it 28 yards for a score that swung the momentum with seconds to play in the first half. That was the last time momentum would reside with the Tigers.

"We played well," Nelson said of his team, which has only 19 players on the roster and looked to have about 15 dressed. "We were only down 14-6 at halftime and you can't take that away from them. But they just wore us down in the second half. They're a good, physical football team."

Things looked a little familiar in the second half as New Underwood took the ball on the opening drive of the third quarter 47 yards to the Lyman 25-yard line before the Raiders defense forced an incomplete pass on fourth down.

Lyman turned around and marched 75 yards on seven runs - five by Jandreau and two by Reed Reuman - capped off by a 1-yard TD run by Reuman, to make it a 22-6 game and send a message that the game was, for all intents and purposes, over. Jandreau had 12 carries for 152 yards and a score in the first half and 14 carries for 137 and a score in the second half.

"They just wore us out," Nelson said of his defense. The Tigers will play Jones County next week in the season finale. Kieffer was pleased with his line and the running of Jandreau and Reuman all night.

"I thought our line did a good job up front and Dawson Jandreau ran it up in there hard," Kieffer said. "That's something that we can build on for next week, but we need to come out with a little more intensity early in the game."

Lyman will close its season with a game at Lower Brule next week, while New Underwood hosts Jones County on Thursday.