Not One but Two High School Championship Football

There’s loads of dangerous news to go around this weekend, but sometimes we need to flip away for a second to catch our breath and calm our hearts. These two insane high faculty soccer performs — in state championship video games, no less — had the announcers screaming in pleasure and the crowds going wild.

Let’s start with this large effort in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s (FHSAA) state 7A title sport, where Lake Mary was battling Vero Beach. Down six factors to go with a scant seven seconds left, quarterback Noah Grubbs dropped back to cross and fired it into the end zone… where it was tipped.

Game over, proper? Nope. A Lake Mary participant snagged the ball and tried to rating… only to be shortly surrounded by a gang of Vero Beach defenders, and there was no hope of going additional. Game over this time, proper? Nope. Lake Mary’s Tavarius Brundidge Jr. ripped the ball out of his own participant’s palms and…

Well, you watch the remainder:

Hard to consider this just occurred. Lake Mary 28 Vero Beach 27 – INSANE FINISH in the FHSAA Class 7A state championship (@LMRamsFootball) pic.twitter.com/dxAZsye1qs

— MaxPreps (@MaxPreps) December 14, 2025

After that spectacular play, the additional level was good, and Lake Mary received their first championship ever, 28-27. Doubtless, that one will go down in lore in Seminole County, FL.

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But I promised you not one but two unbelievable endings to state championships. The second occurred in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where Archbishop Shaw High School had principally received the sport for the LHSAA Division II Select championship and have been just ready for the clock to tick down to zero so they might start pouring the Gatorade over the pinnacle coach.

But one participant began celebrating too early.

After a kneel down, a Shaw lineman ripped off his helmet, threw it in the air, and began operating to the sidelines, pondering it was sport over. It wasn’t, and the yellow flag was thrown.

A penalty stops the clock.

OK, not the end of the world — all they’d to do was punt, and then run out the clock. But then this occurred:

This ending to a high faculty state championship sport was WILD 🤯

Shaw was one kneel-down away from successful the state championship, but an early celebration led to a late St. Charles comeback win

(via @lhsaanetworktv) pic.twitter.com/pC8oFyS4UA

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 13, 2025

Hoo boy.

Amazingly, the St. Charles Catholic kicker who drilled a 44-yard area aim as time expired (fairly darn spectacular for a high-schooler) had only minutes before thought he could be the goat in a painful loss:

Given that earlier in the sport, St. Charles missed an further level that would have tied the rating, the ending was that a lot worse for Shaw.

But better for St. Charles.

“I felt like I had lost us the game, and then next thing I know I’m out there kicking the game-winning field goal,” Milioto said of his second probability, per NOLA.com.

The win gave St. Charles their fourth state title.

Incredible performs, younger males. There’s one thing particular about high faculty soccer, and to both winners and losers alike, I say: nicely performed, gents.

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