2022 Week 1A: Calexico and Blythe Have Unusual Ending

Visiting Calexico was in a 7-7 tie in the fourth quarter in the season’s first game when the lights went out at the Blythe Palo Verde Valley stadium.

The final score was reported to Max Preps as a tie, a result increasingly uncommon as teams nowadays usually find a conclusion in overtime.  A few hours later Cal-Preps.com weighed in with a different result.

Which was correct?

Coaches and other officials apparently huddled in the darkness of the Yellowjackets’ facility and agreed to resume the game the following day, more than 100 miles away at Calexico.

Calexico won in overtime, 14-7, in a game reminiscent of a contest between Kearny and Point Loma more than 40 years earlier.  (Search: 1979: Eighteen Hours Later Komets Emerge as Winners).

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