DANVERS – The score may have been lopsided, but the post-game reactions made it tough to tell who was up and who was down.”It was nice to come out and play like that in the first half,” said St. John’s Prep coach Jim O’Leary. “But we’re a little disappointed that we didn’t finish it off in the second half. That’s something we have to work on.”On the other side of the field: “It thought we did some good things out there,” said Peabody coach Scott Wlasak. “We moved the ball on them. And there was no quit. I’m proud that they played to the last whistle.”You’d never know The Prep won the game, 35-14. But upon further examination, the Eagles, 1-0, scored all their points in the first 22 minutes and allowed Peabody to march up the field in a lengthy drive late in the game to score its second touchdown.And don’t tell O’Leary that was against the second team, either.”They have to step up when they’re in there too,” O’Leary said. “They’re only an injury away from playing.”Wlasuk also wasn’t minimizing his team’s late score.”I’d have to think that their second team is as good as a lot of schools’ first team,” he said.Peabody did do a lot of good things Saturday. First, it ran the ball, to the tune of 179 yards – with Nick Hiou getting 126 of them (as well as scoring a touchdown). And while the defense didn’t have much luck stopping the Prep from putting up 339 yards of total offense (248 of it on the ground), the Tanners were within two touchdowns with only 3:40 to go in the half. That’s when disaster struck.Responding after Tyler Coppola’s second touchdown (he led The Prep with 92 yards on the ground) of the day made it 21-7, Peabody got one first down and appeared to be on its way to another when the Prep defense held, forcing a punt. George Sessoms (78 yards, 1 TD) took off on a 29-yard scamper down the far sideline.From the Tanner 32, St. John’s went seven plays – the last one being a beauty on a second-and-10 from the 22. Quarterback Greg Donahue (7-11, 83 yards) found Peter Castoldi on the far right in the end zone, and threw into double coverage.Somehow, Castoldi managed to outjump the coverage and come down with the ball.”We had a chance to make a play there,” said Wlasuk.That made it 28-7 with only 21 seconds left in the half, and that wasn’t the worst of it. Peabody got the ball back on its own 21 after the kick, and decided to run a couple of plays instead of just killing the clock. However, the Tanners fumbled as time expired ? and St. John’s Mike Dantona, a junior, scooped up the loose ball and ran it into the end zone. Bobby Preston’s extra point made it 35-7, and made the rest of the afternoon academic.”You can always look back afterward and say you should have done something different,” said Wlasuk. “but I can’t second guess.”Sessoms and Coppola score The Prep’s first two touchdowns before Hiou cut the lead in half with 5:45 to go in the half. Mark D’Addario’s three-yard run completed the scoring.