Entering Tuesday’s semifinals in the Romeoville flag football regional, Bradley-Bourbonnais was the top seed and had to play No. 9 Plainfield Central , which beat Plainfield North on Monday to advance and earn the right to play the Boilermakers.

On paper, it looked like it would be a mismatch, as Bradley-Bourbonnais entered with a record of 14-2 and Plainfield Central, playing in its inaugural season, was 9-8.

Someone forgot to tell the Wildcats, though, and they got a 2-yard touchdown run by quarterback Alyssa Link and a two-point conversion pass from Link to Ella Page with 20.6 seconds left to pull off the 28-21 upset.

“I don’t usually run the ball,” Link said. “But, we wanted to try something different that they hadn’t seen. We all just trust each other and we were able to get th

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