Dylan Brown threw for 127 yards and three touchdowns and Kirk Talley added two scoring runs as Spring Hill rolled up a season-ending 56-7 District 17-3A win over Bullard.
Spring Hill (4-6 overall) ended district play with a 2-3 mark. The loss ended a disappointing year for Bullard (1-9, 0-5).
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Les Hassell/News-Journal Photo | Spring Hill's Terry Mumphrey drags down Bullard quarterback Marquez Franklin for a loss during Friday's game at Panther Stadium.
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Brown was 7 of 10 throwing the football, completing scoring strikes of 33 yards to Ryan Lacy, 33 to Dylan Dozier and eight to Spencer Clark. Meanwhile, Talley, one of 12 seniors recognized prior to the game, led a balanced Panther rushing attack with 98 yards. His two touchdowns covered 10 and 40 yards and the second of those came out of the Wildcat formation, which the Panthers used most of the fourth quarter with either Nathan Griffin or Talley taking the snaps.
The 56 points and 411 yards of total offense (284 rushing, 127 passing) were season highs for Spring Hill.
Jake Jones and Tyler Johnson added scoring runs, and Cody Walker returned a fumble 42 yards for a touchdown and booted eight extra points to wrap up Spring Hill's scoring.
The Spring Hill defense limited Bullard to 210 yards and 79 of that came on quarterback Marquez Franklin's scoring run on Bullard's final offensive play of the game. Spring Hill recorded six sacks of Franklin with Ashton Everett getting three of those. Kyle Akin added two and Jake Jones one.
Spring Hill got on the scoreboard first with a 33-yard Brown completion to Lacy with 8:06 remaining in the opening quarter.
Walker extended the Panther lead against Bullard with a 42-yard fumble return for a touchdown with 5:36 left in the first period. The play came on a fourth-down in which the visitors lined up in punt formation and short snapped the football.
Talley then added to the lead with a 10-yard scamper with 8:49 remaining in the second quarter to cap a 10-play, 81-yard march.
Spring Hill completed its second of three scoring drives of the second quarter with a one-yard Jones run. The touchdown with 1:47 left in the first half capped a 65-yard march after the Spring Hill defense held Bullard on another fourth-down attempt that came up short.
Spring Hill would add another touchdown as Brown and Dozier hooked up on a 33-yard completion in which the Panther receiver was double covered, but made the catch inside the five yard line and carried it in. Walker's fifth extra point gave Spring Hill a 35-point halftime lead. The touchdown was set up by a 26-yard Lacy punt return.
Spring Hill added touchdowns of two yards by Johnson and an eight-yard completion from Brown to Spencer Clark in the third quarter, pushing its lead to 49-0 with Walker's PATs.
Talley added his second rushing touchdown of the evening and fourth of the season with a 40-yard run out of the wildcat formation with 6:50 remaining in the game. Walker's PAT extended the Panthers advantage to 56.
Bullard would score, though, on a 79-yard run by Franklin with 3:40 left to play. Franklin dropped the ball 11 yards into the run, but it bounced cleanly back into his hands and he outraced the pursuing defense. Santiago Escobar booted the PAT to wrap up the scoring.
