Lights Out for California teams

Two of the top teams in Fresno, Calif., went head-to-head last Friday, but even overtime couldn't determine a winner.

With a capacity crowd of 6,000 fans looking on, unbeatens Clovis West and Edison completed regulation tied 20-20. Each team scored 7 points on its first overtime possession, and Clovis West was in the midst of its second OT drive when suddenly, at 10:45 p.m. PT, the stadium's lights went out. And stayed out. Officials waited about 20 minutes before calling the game a tie.

The culprit? An automatic timer in the Fresno Unified School District's downtown office was set to kill the lights at 10:45 p.m., and kill the lights it did. "They had no timetable when someone possibly could turn them back on," Clovis West athletic director Karen Sowby told the Fresno Bee. "And, even then, it would have taken 30 minutes for the lights to come back on if they weren't completely cool. Plus, the kids were getting cold and they would have had to warm up. It was crazy."