SAN JOSE — No one was quite sure if St. Ignatius kicker Thomas McKeon’s 40-yard field goal was good.

Not McKeon.

Not SI coach JaJuan Lawson.

But as McKeon’s kick tumbled end over end toward the west end zone’s uprights at San Jose City College, 60 minutes of neck-and-neck football came down to the right foot of the SI senior.

When it barely cleared the crossbar, SI had won the CCS Division II championship 24-21, capping off a stunning comeback from down a touchdown to vanquish its fierce San Francisco rival Sacred Heart Cathedral for the second time this season.

“Decades,” McKeon said of how long he felt the kick was in the air. “Right as I kicked it, I was like, it’s straight enough, but does it have the leg? And once it went through – it might have doinked, I don’t even know. But at

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