Hunter Schofield and Dason Youngblood led four Trailblazers in double figures with 21 points apiece as No. 23 Dixie State closed out its four-game homestand with a lopsided 87-57 triumph over Western Colorado Saturday night inside the Burns Arena. The Trailblazers swept the homestand and won for the fifth-straight time overall to move to 16-3 overall, while the win kept them tied atop the RMAC standings at 11-2.

DSU broke open a tightly contested first half with a 16-5 run that turned a 24-24 tie into a 40-29 Trailblazer lead at the intermission. The guard tandem of Youngblood (6 pts) and Jack Pagenkopf (4 pts) combined to score 10 of the Blazers' 16 points in rally, while the DSU defense held the Mountaineers to just 1-of-10 shooting over the final 7:35 of the period.

Dixie State never saw its lead dip below 10 points the rest of the way, thanks in large part to a sizzling 70.0 percent (21-of-30) shooting clip in the second half. In fact, DSU knocked down 19 of its 21 shots from inside the 3-point arc in the frame.

Meanwhile Western (7-12/4-9 RMAC) hoisted 19 3-point attempts (6-of-19) to try and climb back into the game, which helped the Blazers outscore the Mountaineers by a 34-6 count in the paint, including 13 points from Schofield, who knocked down six of his seven second-half shots.

Schofield wound up 9-of-14 from the floor and pulled down seven rebounds, while Youngblood hit nine of his 13 shot attempts to go with seven boards and five assists. Pagenkopf flirted with a triple-double as the senior finished with 11 points along with game-highs of nine assists and seven rebounds, and Cameron Chatwin poured in 13 points off the bench, with 11 those coming after halftime, on 6-of-9 shooting.

DSU shot a season-best 58.3 percent (35-of-60) on the night, though that number included a paltry 3-of-17 (.176) effort from beyond the arc. The Trailblazers also knocked down 14 of their 17 foul shots (.824) and outrebounded the Mountaineers, 37-31. In addition, Dixie State finished with an RMAC season-high 24 assists to just nine turnovers, including 18 dimes against only three miscues in the second half.

Matthew Ragsdale paced four Mountaineer players in double figures with 14 points. WCU went 19-of-57 (.333) from the floor, with 11 of those makes (11-of-35; .314) coming from the perimeter.

Dixie State now enters a stretch that will see the Trailblazers play seven of their final nine regular season games on the road. That stretch begins next weekend with the first two games of a four-game road swing played at Fort Lewis on Friday, Jan. 31, followed by a date at Adams State on Saturday, Feb. 1.