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A Florida High School State Football championship ended with a phenomenal finish for one team and absolute heartbreak for the other Saturday night.
Lake Mary High School was down by six points with seven seconds left in the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 7A title game against Vero Beach. Noah Grubbs dropped back to pass and rolled right. He gained momentum and fired the ball, which was tipped and caught short of the goal line.
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A Lake Mary quarterback looks to participate in the FHSAA Class 7A state championship on Dec. 13, 2025 at Pitbull Stadium in Miami. (Crystal Vander Weit/TCPALM/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
As Vero Beach defenders tried to keep receiver Barrett Schultz out of the end zone, Schultz’s teammate Tavarius Brundidge Jr. around and took the ball out of Schultz’s hands. Brundidge ran the ball into the end zone to complete the wild and chaotic play.
The touchdown tied the game and Lake Mary would kick the extra point to win, 28-27.
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A Lake Mary player in the FHSAA Class 7A state championship, Dec. 13, 2025, strikes out at Pitbull Stadium in Miami. (Crystal Vander Weit/TCPALM/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
“I was just hoping and praying like everybody else that he would come down with the football and Barrett did,” Lake Mary head coach Scott Perry said, via TC Palm . “… We just had to keep fighting and fighting until the final whistle.”
Vero Beach tried to run out the clock as best they could. The team decided to take a safety with 12 seconds left, giving the ball back to Lake Mary.
A Vero Beach player is stunned after the FHSAA Class 7A state championship, Dec. 13, 2025, at Pitbull Stadium in Miami. (Crystal Vander Weit/TCPALM/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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It was the first state championship for Lake Mary in its history.
