NEWPORT NEWS - Mason Tatum threw for a record 455 yards through the air as the Apprentice School football team snapped a three-game losing skid with a 55-33 win over Hocking on Senior Day Saturday afternoon.

Additionally, Tatum set the records for most passing touchdowns in a single game with six and the career records for passing yards, passing touchdowns, total touchdowns responsible for and total offensive yards. The Builders threw for a record 465 yards on the day, the most passing yards in a game as a team in program history.

The Builders got on the board on the opening drive of the game as Tatum rushed in for his lone non-passing touchdown of the day at the 13:40 mark. Hocking answered less than a minute later to set up the track meet on the scoreboard.

Tatum answered on the ensuing drive as he hooked up with Ta'Kevion Petty for a 52-yard touchdown to take a 14-7 lead, but again Hocking responded, driving the field to punch it in at the 4:07 mark in the first quarter. 90 seconds later, Tatum found Joshua Hubbard for a 32-yard pitch-and-catch to retake the lead at 21-14.

Hocking got back on the board in the second quarter with a 26-yard touchdown throw, but a missed extra point kept Apprentice in the lead. The Builders looked as if they would go up by eightafter Tatum found Ernest Harris in the back of the endzone, but the Builders missed the extra point, keeping the game at 27-20. Two minutes later, Hocking scored to tie things up, but Tatum led the offense down the field again, finding Makegan Piorkowski for 12 yards and a 34-27 lead at the half.

Hocking scored again to start the second half to cut the lead to one after another missed PAT, but Apprentice answered with another Petty touchdown grab, this one from 25 yards to push the lead out to 41-33. Senior Lawrence Reed accounted for the final two scores of the day, the first on a 2-yard rushing score at the 5:11 mark of the third before a 6-yard receiving touchdown with 5:23 left to go in the game.

Petty finished with 213 yards receiving, marking the second most receiving yards by a single player in a game. Ricardo Corpus also finished with 121 yards on seven catches.

The Builders honored their senior class in a pregame ceremony, including Josiah Ashby, Justin DePriest, Thomas Hougas, Tyler Lacy, Jeremiah Morgan, Chandler Perry, Reed, Tatum and Corpus.

Apprentice will wrap up the season next week when they battle the Howard Huskies Saturday at 1 p.m. at home.