Things unraveled quickly in the second half for the La Salle-Peru football team Friday.

In a season-ending nonconference matchup against O’Fallon, the Cavaliers trailed by just a touchdown at halftime, but O’Fallon scored on four consecutive possessions to open the second half — two coming off L-P turnovers — to turn a close game into a 34-0 defeat for the Cavs.

“We have a great team and gave great effort, but we just made too many mistakes,” first-year L-P coach JJ Raffelson said.

The Cavs committed four turnovers — two interceptions thrown and two lost fumbles on quarterback-running back exchanges. The Panthers capitalized, turning three of those giveaways into 17 points.

“It’s been our way all year — we just haven’t been able to string four quarters together,” Raffelson said. “Whe

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