'The Heave' Against Hewitt-Trussville Makes Top 10 Plays List

MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL — Mountain Brook's 11-10 victory over Hewitt-Trussville this season was one of the most dramatic wins in the history of Spartan football, and anyone who saw Paulson Wright's unlikely pass completion to Jake Thompson for the game-winning two-point conversion saw just how wild the waning seconds of the game were.

That play has been recognized by national high school sports site MaxPreps as one of the Top 10 Wildest Plays of the 2019 season.

"The Heave," as the play has been deemed, landed at no. 8 on the wildest plays in the country in the 2019 high school football season, and with good reason.

With 10 seconds remaining in the game, and the Spartans having scored a touchdown to make the score 10-9, Mountain Brook needed a two-point conversion to win. The play was supposed to be a reverse pass, but the Huskies penetrated the line and disrupted the play, causing a fumble to roll roughly 15 yards behind the line of scrimmage. That was when Wright picked up the fumble and heaved a pass — without looking for a specific receiver — into the end zone.

Jake Thompson came down with the desperation heave to give the Spartans the 11-10 lead.