Box Score WICHITA FALLS, Texas --- The Western Oregon football team saw its three-game winning streak snapped as after a hot start, the Wolves cooled off and fell to Midwestern State 26-21 Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.

The Wolves (4-5 overall, 3-4 LSC) scored touchdowns on their first two drives of the game - the first set up by Omari Dixon-Land taking the first offensive play for WOU 67 yards to the MSU 9, scoring three plays later from four yards out to make it 7-0 with 11:46 left in the first quarter. After forcing the Mustangs (5-4, 4-3) to punt on their next possession - the Wolves again drove for a touchdown with Dixon-Land ending the drive with a 4-yard plunge to make it 14-0 with 4:26 left in the first quarter.

That's when WOU went cold offensively and MSU picked up the pace. The Mustangs scored the next 26 points - capped by a touchdown run with 18 seconds left in the third quarter to make it 26-14.

The Wolves got something going again with a 14-play, 70-yard drive that took 4:41 off the clock in the fourth quarter that was capped by a Logan Reese 8-yard touchdown reception from Gannon Winker with 4:26 left in the game.

But WOU never got the ball back as MSU ran the clock out - converting two key third-down plays - to hand the Wolves the loss.

The offensive stats were close with the Mustangs outgaining WOU 341-338. A key difference was the Wolves finished with four turnovers compared to none for MSU.

Winker finished 17-for-39 for 204 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. Dixon-Land rushed for a team-high 125 yards and two scores while Marquis Sampson caught five passes for 57 yards and Thomas Wright added four catches for 56 yards.

Defensively, the conference's leading tackler Jaylin Parnell finished with 14 tackles while Joey Sinclair had eight and Ryan Minniti had six.

The Wolves play their home finale next Saturday against Simon Fraser. Kickoff is set for 1:05 p.m.