Another miracle?
It seems eerily similar. Two highly ranked teams reach overtime in a game crucial to the postseason. A game-winning field goal attempt is blocked and returned for a touchdown, after nearly everyone on the field thought the play was dead. All it needed was mud. Lycoming blocked the game-winning field goal attempt of Widener's Carl Schoenman. Mike deMarteleire picked it up, shoveled it to junior wideout Bo Fischer, who ran into the end zone untouched. No. 6 Widener defeated No. 8 Lycoming 20-14 in overtime. "I do believe the refs made the right call," said Widener head coach Bill Zwaan, "[deMarteleire] threw the ball from behind the line of scrimmage. But the fact that you never see a play like that, of course everyone's going to question it. Nobody deserves to lose a football game like that." Saturday's full results. No. 22 Linfield avenged last year's loss and playoff snub, beating No. 20 Pacific Lutheran 35-21, while UW-La Crosse knocked off UW-Stevens Point and UW-Platteville upset UW-Stout, kicking off another wacky WIAC season in force. McDaniel beat Muhlenberg. Wesfield State topped Worcester State. No. 12 John Carroll edged Baldwin-Wallace on another disputed play at the goal line. Central needed to rally with three late scores to beat Coe, 21-20. And out of conference, No. 11 Ithaca routed Springfield. Friday night might have set the tone for a wild Week 5, as Rowan rallied from a 19-0 deficit, taking a lead on a wide receiver option pass to beat archrival College of New Jersey 30-25. | |
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