BEREA -- The Heidelberg University Football team came up on the short end of a wildly entertaining season-ending contest at Baldwin Wallace. The Yellow Jackets kicked a walk-off 34-yard field goal to secure a 41-38 win. Heidelberg built an early lead, but BW chipped away. The second half featured five lead changes, with the final one coming at the gun. 

After the teams traded punts, Heidelberg took the lead with a 22-yard field goal by Landon Stein. The kick capped a methodical 15-play, 65-yard drive.  

Heidelberg's defense forced a three-and-out on the next possession, taking over at their own 20. Five plays later, Ty Poorman hit Dimitry Peters on an 11-yard slant for six, pushing the lead to 10-0 at the end of the first quarter.

After another Baldwin Wallace punt, the Student Princes went back to work from their own 14. Poorman directed a 12-play, 86-yard clinic, scrambling for 22 yards himself and firing a 20-yard strike to Aiden Bradshaw on third down to keep the chains moving. From the seven, Poorman found Micah Willink in the flat for the score. Ethan Ramsdail's kick made it 17-0 with 10:10 left in the half.

BW scored late in the third, cutting into the HU lead.  

The Yellow Jacket momentum was short-lived. It took just four plays for HU to score again. Two were lengthy runs by Poorman and one was a 38-yard touchdown run by Drew Miller.  Stein's PAT pushed the lead back to 17. 

The hosts wouldn't be denied right before intermission, finding the end zone with 19 seconds left in the half to cut the Heidelberg lead to 10. HU had a chance to score on the ensuing possession, with Austin Niederkohr lateralling the kickoff to Tyreese Clerveau. Clerveau took it down to the seven, but a field goal attempt at the end of the half was off the mark 

BW scored the first two touchdowns of the second half, taking a 28-24 lead with 5:26 left in the third. 

Trailing for the first time, Heidelberg responded with a heavy dose of Miller. Eight of the ten plays in the 74-yard drive belonged to Miller, who closed out the drive with an 18-yard run through the middle of the defense to put the Berg out in front, 31-28.

BW regained the lead at the start of the fourth, kicking off a heart pounding shootout.

Down 35-31, Heidelberg responded in just six plays, in big part due to the Poorman brothers connecting on the right sideline for 45 yards down to the one, setting up the Luke Blatnik one-yard score for six. 

Baldwin Wallace tied the game with 6:25 to go, giving the Student Princes the ball with an opportunity to close out the game. But the 'Berg offense sputtered on a quick three-and-out, forcing a punt that handed the ball back to BW. Enter the special teams cavalry: a Yellow Jacket fumble on the return, scooped up by Mason Flicker at the Berg 49 yard line, giving the Student Princes a chance to score as the clock ticked down.

The Heidelberg offense clawed into BW territory, grinding out chunks of yards thanks to Poorman and Miller before facing a 4th-and-5 at the BW 21. Faced with the option between attempting a 38-yard field into a fierce Cuyahoga County wind or going for it, HU elected to keep the offense on the field. Poorman fired a pass to Solomon Sandoval in the heart of the defense, but the two couldn't connect as the pass fell incomplete, giving Baldwin Wallace the ball. 

The Yellow Jackets completed their comeback, marching down the field to kick the game winning field goal as time expired. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:  
Miller finished with 192 yards and two touchdowns on 31 carries … Ty Poorman was 15-for-25 on the windy Saturday. He piled up 223 yards and two touchdowns -- hitting eight different targets … Defensively, Kris Williams, Griffin Reese, and Trey Farris all finished with 10 tackles.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE: 
Miller finished the season with a OAC-best 1,383 yards, the fourth-most in a single season in 'Berg history. He is the first Student Prince to lead the conference in rushing since Cartel Brooks did in 2013 and 2014.