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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eastern Kentucky could taste a second straight national championship Saturday with 55 seconds left, a five-point lead, and opponent Boise State on its own 20-yard line.
"We thought we had the game then," admitted wide receiver David Booze, whose touchdown on a 60-yard pass from Chris Isaac gave the Colonels their late lead. "All we had to do was hold them for four downs."
But Boise State had the last word in the wild Camellia Bowl game, marching 80 yards and scoring on a 14-yard pass from Joe Aliotti to Duane Dlouhy with 12 seconds remaining for a 31-29 victory.
The victory gave the Broncos from the Big Sky Conference the NCAA Division I-AA football championship.
Aliotti completed three straight passes to Kipp Bedard in the last-minute drive, the last completion a 34-yarder to the Colonels' 14. Then he threw three straight incompletions and had one chance left.
The quarterback said the final play was supposed to be a crossing pattern to Dlouhy or Scott Newmann, but both were covered.
So he scrambled to his right, "just trying to buy time and make something happen," and found Dlouhy, a 6-foot-5 junior tight end in the left corner of the end zone.
Aliotti completed 24 of 41 passes for 358 yards and two touchdowns, with Bedard grabbing 11 passes for 212 yards. Isaac was 16 of 25 for 250 yards and one touchdown.
The Boise State Broncos led 14-10 at halftime, getting a 5-yard touchdown pass from Aliotti to Beddard and a 1-yard scoring dive by David Hughes. After recovering a fumble by Eastern Kentucky's Tony Braxton, Boise scored on a 1-yard run by Cedric Minter for a 21-10 lead early in the third quarter.
But Isaac then led the Colonels on a 89-yard scoring drive, running the final 11 yards himself.
A 24-yard field goal by Kenrick Camerud gave Boise State a 24-16 lead. But Braxton's second touchdown of hte game, a 2-yard run after an interception by freshman David Hill made it 24-22.
Eastern Kentucky failed on a two-point conversion and later on a fake field goal play from the Boise 3-yard line, but the Colonels forced a punt and got the ball back at their 40 with 1:09 left to set up the wild finish.
Both teams finished the year with 10-3 records.
BOISE STATE LEADERS
Rushing: Minter 22-105-1
Passing: Aliotti 24-41-358-1-2
Receiving: Bedard 11-212-1
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