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The game was over.

Zeros showed on the clock. New Westminster’s Sebastian Reid lay still and dejected on the ground, the ball at his side, his senior season ending in defeat, a mere 19 yards short of the end zone.

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Terry Fox had won the 2017 Subway Bowl triple-A football championship at B.C. Place, 14-7 victors over the Hyacks.

Until … they hadn’t.

The referees waved back the tide of celebrating Ravens rushing onto the field, instructing the scorekeepers to put a single second back on the clock.

One second. One play. Once chance.

New West quarterback Kinsale Philip dropped back, watching the blitz bear down from both sides, and lofted a high, arcing ball off his back foot as he was pounded into the turf.

Senior Severio Asaba answered the prayer, leaping high between three defenders in the end zone, coming down with the ball — his only catch of the season — and pulling the Hyacks to within one.

New Westminster coach Farhan Lalji, sensing the momentum and magnitude of the moment, opted to go for two, and senior Lucas Sabau obliged, punching in the game-winning points from five yards out to give the Hyacks their first triple-A title in school history.