Trailing Indiana State 27-20 on the Indiana State eight-yard line with 19 seconds left, Ball State had a chance to tie the game.
Quarterback Ozzie Mann scrambled to his right and took off running, tackled at the two-yard line. The final seconds ticked away, and the Cardinals came up just short of sending the game into overtime.
“Ozzie scrambled and should have tried to get out of bounds so we have time for at least two more plays,” Ball State head coach Pete Lembo said.
1. Mann lines up in the shotgun on the right hash of the eight-yard line. The running back is to his right, receiver Chris Shillings is lined up to his right. Receivers Aaron Hepp, KeVonn Mabon and Corey Lacanaria were lined up to his left.
2. At the snap, Shillings ran a post route to the corner of the end zone. Hepp ran into the flats to the left, Mabon runs a quick curl route and Lacanaria runs a curl route into the front of the end zone.
3. Mann quickly scrambles to the left. Trying to get to the end zone, he takes off around the 10-yard line.
4.Two Indiana State defenders hit Mann on the five-yard line, and falls forward to the two. Before Ball State can get another snap off, the clock expires.
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