With two touchdowns -- the second one set up by a long pass from River to Achebe and scored by B2 on a short end zone run and with two field goals -- one from 54 ft -- Huygens should have been in a semi-solid position. But at the beginning of the 4th quarter, with two El Dorado touchdowns and two El Dorado field goals, the score was tied at 20-20.

On the Huygens sidelines, Griff paced restlessly as play by play El Dorado Defense now held River to short gains. In parallel, Huygens Defense now held El Dorado to short gains, while on the El Dorado sidelines, Head Coach Clayton Perkins-Sinclar was revising his fourth quarter game plan.

The game was still tied when Croc took the field with eight minutes remaining. Griff sent Backup Quarterback Damian Jefferson Tyler in as Defensive End. Two sacks and a twice-downed running back, the score was still 20-20. But when Huygens took possession, Coach Perkins-Sinclar retaliated by sending in mechanical engineering student, Defensive End Raith2, Dbane's larger-than-life brother.

River unleashed a perfectly thrown, perfectly caught pass to Achebe. But when Achebe started running, 300 pound Raith2 appeared seemingly out of nowhere and hit him so hard that the ball sprang from his grasp, right into the waiting hands of Dbane, where it was ruled an interception. El Dorado had possession deep in Huygen's territory.

Croc to Wide Receiver Dakota Imali; handoff to Running Back Journey-Joe Santoro; handoff to Santoro; Croc to Wide Receiver Gordie Tom Preston, who took it into the end zone, Touchdown El Dorado. At this point, a two-point conversion to avoid a tie would generally be only warily considered, but El Dorado had the most successful two-point conversion record in the league. Huygens 20 El Dorado 28.

As River ran onto the field for what might be his final possession of the season, in the band, Mira Palacio-Earle played a few bars of the flute solo with which in The Magic Flute Tamino subdues the wild beasts. "Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton" ("How powerful is your magic sound"). While Mira played, the beautiful glockenspiel player smiled at River. The two minute warning bell rang.