Sometimes just two plays can make or break a football game for a team.

    For the Blue Springs Wildcats, the case was the latter against Rockhurst. A fumble by quarterback Dylan Cowling and an unsuccessful fourth-and-one play doomed the homecoming team as it fell to the Hawklets 39-21 Friday at Peve Stadium.

    “We are just so disappointed because we came out so flat in the second half,” Blue Springs coach Kelly Donohoe said. “This was a game we thought we could win if we played really well, but we didn’t play very well. We made too many mistakes tonight and we can’t do that.”

    Blue Springs led 14-13 at halftime, but Rockhurst (2-4) scored 25 unanswered points to punctuate its 18-point win. On its first drive, the road team took it all the way from its own 8 to the Wildcat 35 before Jackson Terry hit his third field goal of the game from 35 yards out to put Rockhurst up by two.

    Blue Springs (1-5) had its only turnover soon after, and it was a costly one, on its opening possession of the second half. A Hawklet defender knocked the ball loose after Cowling tried to pick up some yards on a scramble. Jacob Sykes recovered the ball, setting up Rockhurst at Blue Springs’ 43-yard line.

    “That was the first turnover we’ve had in three weeks,” Rockhurst coach Tony Severino said. “That’s just been our year. I have to see how my team handles winning now.”

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