CRAWFORD | A bad call ended a football season in Illinois. What followed was an act of grace.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB+WAVE) — There was an apology made somewhere in Illinois the other day that I wish more people knew about. It came after a high school football game. A playoff game. The kind of game that boys spend their summers preparing for, and their autumns dreaming about, and sometimes the rest of their lives remembering. The team from Antioch had won 10 games and lost none. It was the top seed in its class. It had hopes of winning a state championship, something the school had never done. And then, in the final seconds of a playoff game against Sycamore, came a moment no one in Antioch will soon forget. Trailing 32-28 with time for one play, Antioch quarterback Ethan Patel rolled out and threw the ball as far as he could. Two Sycamore defenders got their hands on it. It caromed off one of them and into the arms of senior receiver Chance Verden before it ever touched the ground. Verden ran into the end zone. The boys from Antioch thought they had won.

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