That might be the wildest finish I’ve ever seen to a football game — much less a national championship game.
Butler blew a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter. Then Snow came back, tied the game and forced overtime. Then Wichita East product Demonte Hill made the heads up play of the decade for the Grizzlies, jumping on the football in the end zone after the Badgers blocked a Logan Ortiz field goal in double overtime. It’s the Leon Lett rule … after the kick had been blocked no Snow player needed to touch it and it would have been a change of possession … but two Snow players ran in and tried to down the ball! Hill — and I have no idea why he was even in that area– pounced on the ball in the end zone for the touchdown. Then Forlando Johnson intercepted a pass to seal a 37-30 win in the Top of the Mountains Bowl in Sandy, Utah, aka the official NJCAA national championship game.
And I saw it and still don’t believe it. And Zac Clark had the game of his life and might be headed to Oregon. And Butler is the NJCAA champ for back-to-back seasons and the fifth time in the last 11 years.
I’m out.
-TA
BUTLER COACH TROY MORRELL
Here we are again in early December. And here we are again with the Butler Grizzlies getting ready to play for another national title. I suppose that’s the sort of thing that never gets old.
As far as coverage leading up to the game, if you’re reading The Eagle you can see we’ve been pumping this game up a little bit, starting with an article on Monday about the hassles of getting everybody to Salt Lake City for the game, to today’s Bob Lutz column on Butler QB Press Taylor.
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MONICA MIESNER
The AVCA Division II All-American teams were announced yesterday and — no surprise here — the MIAA cleaned up.
Washburn outside hitter Monica Miesner, Emporia State setter Ting Liu and Pitt State middle blocker Linda Igbinigie were all first-team picks, with Miesner’s selection making her a three-time pick, just the second time a Lady Blue volleyball player has been a three-time All-American and the second time a first-teamer has come out of Washburn. Miesner was a second-team pick in 2005 and 2007.
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Hello all. Roll call is definitely back in the house.
Let’s get this rolling. Not as much to deal with as in the fall … but just as important.
No players of the week to speak of — yet — in the KCAC but I’ll get into that in a minute. And the Jayhawk won’t start putting them out, apparently, until after the new year. Bummer.
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