Massive amounts of questions are answered when the dust clears at the end of Week 1.

But more so than any other Week 1 in recent memory we didn’t get a bunch of those answers until the last possible second in a multitude of games around the state.

Here are a few of the many fantastic finishes around the state of Illinois:

• One of the more intriguing games in the state was also one of the first to finish on Thursday. East St. Louis traveled to play Bergen Catholic, a team currently ranked No. 17 nationally in the MaxPreps rankings and the Flyers seemed to have a marquee victory within their grasp.

But a blocked punt inside of two minutes set up a Bergen touchdown drive and pulled the Crusaders to within a point. Bergen went for the two, got it, and escaped with a 22-21 win. It’s cert

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