When Bishop’s of La Jolla High and San Diego Crawford High in California took the field on Tuesday for a Division 4 playoff match, neither team had a clue that their game would take two days to complete. Yeah…TWO DAYS! Â Hit the jump for the full story!
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The two teams had to return a second day to finish the game because a winner couldn’t be decided on Tuesday night, after the teams played to a 3-3 tie and a remained deadlocked after 21 rounds of penalty kicks (each team converted on 18 of their 21 kicks).
As the Los Angeles Times reported, Bishop’s and Crawford started their match at 3:30 p.m. and played until 6, but with darkness falling and the game still undecided, the referee decided to call the game and have both teams come back and finish on Wednesday.
“I’ve never heard of anything going that far,” Bishop’s coach Malcolm Tovey told the Los Angeles Times. “It was a surreal experience. We had chances to win, they had chances to win.”
Both coaches considered starting the game all over to decide a winner, but the San Diego Section said the teams had to continue with the penalty shootout.
That’s when things got really interesting. After going 21 rounds on Tuesday, the two teams went an incredible 29 more rounds before Matt Harris of Bishop’s scored the game-winner on the 50th penalty kick of the match, after which a Crawford shooter missed the shot that would have re-deadlocked the penalty extravaganza.
