St. Charles Catholic senior Tyler Milioto returned to the sideline and sat on the bench, thinking he had blown his team’s chance at winning a state title.

He missed an extra point with 35 seconds left that let Shaw keep a one-point lead.

After the recovery of an onside kick, the Eagles had a chance to kneel out the clock. Do that, and Shaw would repeat as LHSAA Division II select state champions, leaving top-seeded St. Charles as the runner-up in a game it was favored to win.

“I was just thinking,” Milioto said, “it can’t get worse than what just happened.”

Then came the sequence that led to Milioto’s redemptive 44-yard field goal for a 23-21 victory late Friday at Caesars Superdome, a moment that was hard to comprehend, even for those who lived it on the field.

Milioto did not see th

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