[Rick In Madison]

Saw this today in a Yahoo feed involving the wild ending to the state's 7A football championship game between Thompson and Auburn high schools.

https://sports.yahoo.com/alabama-hig...060621185.html

The Yahoo story has video of the blocked punt, onside kick, and field goal. Congratulations to both teams.


In case the URL doesn't resolve for you the text follows from reporter Ryan Young:


Alabama’s Class 7A title game had one of the wildest finishes fans will see this season — at any level.

Thompson High School rallied back from a nine-point deficit in the final 18 seconds of the game on Wednesday night to secure the 29-28 win over Auburn High School at Bryant-Denny Stadium, thanks to a blocked punt, an onside kick and a deep field goal.

To make the story even better, the Warriors were without their starting quarterback and the best player in the state.

Thompson scores 10 points in 18 seconds to win title
Auburn thought it had the victory sealed up on its final drive, and took a knee three times before it went to punt the ball away in the final seconds.

The play seemed simple enough, and would’ve likely done enough to drain the clock with a two-score lead.

That was, however, until Thompson’s Korbyn Williams snuck through to block the punt and run it back 38 yards for a touchdown — which suddenly made it a two-point game.

Then, after a successful onside kick, Thompson kicker Trevor Hardy drilled a game-winning 35-yard field goal to steal the state title, the team’s second straight.

Naturally, that sparked a massive celebration on the Alabama field.

[dijkstra]

That was one wild ending. This is one of those it can happen scenarios. I understand Auburn had a two score lead but still all they had to do was run a running play or two to eat a little more clock up and they could have ran all the time out without having to punt. Their coach will never stop replaying that in his mind. lol