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On fourth down and 10 with 39 seconds left in Friday night’s football state semifinal, Lake Mary was clinging to a 31-26 lead and knew a crucial play was coming.

Convert, and they not only win to go back to the Class 7A championship game but do it by beating Venice, the team that embarrassed the Rams with a lopsided 52-19 title game victory a year ago.

A failed conversion might not have been the end of the world, but it might have spelled the end of a season. It would have left enough time for Venice’s offense to go for a game-winning touchdown. The Indians had been able to move quickly downfield at times throughout the night.

Rams quarterback Noah Grubbs took the snap, looked one way, pump-faked, and then found running back O’Shea Faison

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