Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on September 27, 2025, 03:53:43 PMHope 26 Alma 29 in OT is the official score. Actual score is Hope 26 Alma 23. Why? Well Alma ran the hook and ladder play, and the lateral from the receiver to his teammate was fumbled and recovered by Hope - game over!!! Somehow the officials met (with the Alma coaches prompting) and called it an incomplete pass. How can it be incomplete if the receiver possessed the ball enough to lateral it?That's how I (and the Hope team) also saw it FDF. But we need to see a replay--perhaps it was a forward lateral/pass from the first receiver? Clearly he caught it.?
P.S. I found the replay (also available below), and we saw it correctly FDF. The Alma receiver caught it at the 21, turned and lateraled it to the trailing back at the 23, who dropped it. A ref mistake seemingly costs Hope the victory (despite the Alma coach insisting it was an incomplete pass) . . . but it all happened in a flash and, without D3 replay, refs are human--perhaps thinking the first receiver dropped the pass instead of lateraling it? or thinking he lateraled forward? Or are we missing or misinterpreting something?
That said, it was a great even game for which an ESPN Gametracker odds maker would have gotten seasick in the last minute and OT. Too bad someone had to lose.