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Volume 122, Issue 31
Monday, Nov. 3, 2014
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Memorial Miracle
Indiana State football celebrates their come-from-behind victory over conference rival Missouri State with nearly 5,000 Sycamore fans in attendance (Photo by Gary Macadaeg).
Trick play helps save the day for Indiana State football
ALEX MODESITT Editor-in-Chief Indiana State needed a miracle late in the game against conference-rival Missouri State on Saturday and it got one, winning 20-18 in wild fashion. The Sycamores win their second straight game and improve to 6-3 on the season — 3-2 in conference play — while the Bears dropped their fourth game out of their last five contests to fall to 4-5 — 1-4 in conference contests. Missouri State looked poised to steal
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the win late in the game after going up 18-17 with only 42 seconds left on the clock. Indiana State dug deep into their bag of tricks and dialed up what many are calling “The Memorial Miracle.” The Bears squibbed the kickoff following their go-ahead field goal, in hopes of avoiding a big return. The Sycamores recovered the ball and set in motion one of the most exciting plays of the day in college football, eventually being picked as the third-best play in SportsCenter’s top ten plays of the day.
The hidden-ball play worked to perfection as redshirt-freshman Aaron Kiilebrew, who head coach Mike Sanford dubbed “the fastest man on our football team,” took the ball out of the six-man huddle and sprinted up the sideline after making two defenders miss. He was eventually tackled at the Missouri State 38-yard line. The play energized the Sycamore sideline and all 4,799 fans in attendance. “When you get a short field and you know you only need about 20 yards to
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get into field-goal range, it gives you confidence and momentum that you can tell went through our offense,” said senior quarterback Mike Perish. Indiana State went 18 yards in five plays to set up sophomore kicker Eric Heidorn for the go-ahead field-goal attempt. The kick sailed through the uprights with just six tics left on the clock and the rest, as they say, is history. Sanford praised the grit and FOOTBALL CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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