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By CURT HORNBECKER/Staff Correspondent |

HANCOCK -- After three first-half turnovers put Hancock's football team in a hole, six dropped passes in the second half made certain the Panthers stayed there.

Meanwhile, Bishop Walsh racked up 407 yards of total offense to trounce the Panthers 48-22 in the season finale for both teams on Friday.

"(Turnovers) put us in a hole we couldn't get out of," said Hancock coach Dave Mahaffey. "But I don't want the last game to end on a negative note. We never stopped battling. The score looks bad, but the game was a lot closer."

Trey Walters got Bishop Walsh (6-4) started early, scoring from 13 yards out on the Spartans' first possession and scampering in from the 23 following Mickey Burkett's interception of a Garrett Wiles pass.

But Nick Lanehart -- who finished with 150 yards on 15 carries for the Panthers (4-6) -- sparked a nine-play, 72-yard march capped by Wiles' 5-yard run, giving the momentum back to Hancock.

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