Woodbury has found much success in the second half this season.

It did so again Friday, putting up 14 points in the final two quarters and made a defensive stand with 3 seconds left to beat Eagan 21-20 in a Class 6A football playoff.

Eagan’s Gage Halvorson caught a 12-yard reception from Parker West with 3 seconds left to get the Wildcats within one. West was stopped just shy of the goal line on the 2-point try and the Royals could exhale.

A 18-yard touchdown reception by Woodbury’s Nolan Freymiller capped a 10-play, 78-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter for the winning points and the second-seeded Royals averted an upset by the seventh-seeded Wildcats.

Shawn Rekowski caught a 38-yard pass late in the third quarter as Woodbury (7-2) tied the game 14-all. Woodbury has outscore

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