After a back-and-forth game that Del Norte seemed to have won, Birmingham scored on a tipped pass to win the CIF Division 3-AA regional bowl game.
Miracle.
It’s not an embellishment to use that word to describe how Birmingham High won its CIF Division 3-AA regional bowl game 30-28 on Friday night against Del Norte in San Diego.
“I don’t think a lot of people believe what happened,” Birmingham coach Jim Rose said.
On the final play of the game, Birmingham had the ball on its 48-yard line while trailing 28-24. Quarterback Kingston Tisdell avoided the rush, stepped forward and launched a pass down the middle of the field. It went off the hands of Peyton Waters and landed in the hands of Devyn Jackson, who ran it in for a game-winning touchdown so stunning that Tisdell stayed on the turf afterward trying to comprehend what he had seen.
“That’s our guys making plays,” Tisdell said.
Birmingham (12-2), the City Section Open Division champion, appeared headed to defeat after a pass fell incomplete on fourth down with 2:32 left.
