St. Charles won one of the wildest state high school football championships that you'll ever see.
Shaw had to experience the worst kind of heartbreak.
The scene starts with Shaw possessing the ball with less than a minute to play, leading 21-20. St. Charles had a chance to tie the game on a Tyler Milioto extra point that missed.
Shaw was set to kneel out the game, but in celebrations before the clock ran out, a helmet was taken off and tossed aside on the field. That was called an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
The flag stopped the clock, allowed St. Charles to preserve the clock, and set up a punt that was partially blocked and gave them one final shot.
This time, Milioto drilled a 44-yard field goal. And from the brink of defeat, St. Charles was state champs in the LHSAA Division II select state championship at the Superdome.
This has to be the craziest ending to a Louisiana high school state championship game ever.
— Brendon Fairbairn (@FairbairnTV) December 13, 2025
Shaw was one kneel-down away from winning, but an early celebration stopped the clock—and St. Charles took full advantage #LHSAA
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Milioto's emotions summed up what all of St. Charles must've been feeling.
“I felt like I had lost us the game, and then next thing I know I’m out there kicking the game-winning field goal,” he told NOLA.com.
Shaw was the defending state champion but has to settle for runner-up in 2025.
St. Charles was just 4-7 last year, but they had reached the state final in five consecutive seasons before that, and this time, they made it back and won what goes down as their fourth state title. The others were definitely not like this one.
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