For nearly the past four decades, generations of Rockhurst High School students and fans have been accustomed to seeing Tony Severino pace the sidelines of Vincent P. Dasta Memorial Stadium.

But on Friday night, for the first time in 37 years, there was a different head coach directing play from the Rockhurst home sideline.

Arriving last December from rival school Blue Springs, Kelly Donohoe was the man with the headset for the Hawklets to kick off a new era of Rockhurst football.

But playing on the newly-named Severino Field, Donohoe failed to achieve what had become commonplace under his predecessor: to walk off the field a winner.

Falling to the Raymore-Peculiar Panthers 42-34, Donohoe flashed his playbook in a game that included it all — multiple fourth-down conversions, trick plays and even a two-point conversion.

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