BUTTE — For the second straight year, Montana Tech is off to a 3-0 start.

Wykece Johnson rushed for 139 yards — his third straight 100-plus yard game — and the No. 11 Orediggers built a sizable first-half lead and then fended off Rocky Mountain College in the second half for a 34-23 victory Saturday at Bob Green Field.

It was a non-division game and the Orediggers and Battlin' Bears — both members of the Frontier Conference East — will meet again in a divisional clash Nov. 1 in Billings.

WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS: No. 11 Montana Tech fends off Rocky Mountain College, Orediggers improve to 3-0

Tech raced to a 20-0 lead early in the second quarter thanks to a pair of field goals from Casey Kautzman (20 and 42 yards), a goal-line rush from Nate Milanowski and an interception return for a TD

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