OCVarsity.com was contacted on Saturday by two longtime football officials who wondered if the officiating crew might have made an incorrect call that helped Redlands East Valley defeat Mission Viejo, 10-7, on Friday night.
The officials contacted OCVarsity after reading Brian Whitehead’s account of the game in The Register.
In the story, Whitehead describes how Redlands East Valley scored its only touchdown on a botched punt return by Mission Viejo in the final minutes of the second quarter.
The punt struck Mission Viejo’s Max Redfield, who was near the Mission Viejo 15-yard line, as he was trying to block for the return man. The ball rolled toward the end zone after bouncing off Redfield, and several Redlands East Valley players pursued the ball until Tanner Shreve fell on it in the end zone.
A video of the game appears to show that another Redlands East Valley player scooped up the ball first at about the Mission Viejo 2, but the unidentified player lost control of it and Shreve fell on it in the end zone.
