One chance -- that is all Woodland Hills had.

One throw, one opportunity at a catch, a singular moment to make a play all high school football players dream about.

With no time left last night, Woodland Hills receiver Cameron Contreras sprung high in the short corner of the end zone and pulled in a 38-yard touchdown pass from John Yezovich -- who had eluded two oncoming rushers before unleashing the desperation pass -- to give Woodland Hills (3-4, 2-1) a 41-36 victory against Fox Chapel (4-3, 2-1) in a WPIAL Class AAAA Big East Conference back-and-forth thriller at the Wolverina in Turtle Creek.

The Contreras touchdown culminated a drive where Woodland Hills got the ball trailing by one point with 24 seconds left on the Fox Chapel 40.

"As long as I had a chance, I was going to get it," said the 6-foot-3 Contreras, who outjumped a Foxes' defender on the winner. "I just had to jump up. I jumped and was gliding at the same time and no one jumped with me. I knew it wasn't over until the very last whistle."

Several Fox Chapel players took the loss hard. Tears flowed, heads buried in each other's shirts.

Contreras' touchdown hurt -- but it probably hurt even more because the feeling was familiar.

Last year, on the very last play, Woodland Hills traveled to Fox Chapel and won when Joe Shaffo hit Kalieb Hines with a 32-yard heave.

Two years, two Hail Marys, two heartbreaking losses.

"Two years in a row, they throw a ball over the top and beat us," Fox Chapel coach Bryan Deal said. "We were right there two years in a row and they found a way to make a play and we didn't."

Woodland Hills coach George Novak, too, harkened back to last year.

"I feel bad for Fox Chapel, I feel bad for coach Deal," Novak said. "Both teams laid it out on the line."

Fox Chapel looked like it could win when it went on a last-minute, frenetic drive as Jayce Duquette pulled in a 15-yard touchdown pass with 33 seconds left to put the Foxes behind, 35-34. Instead of lining up to kick what would be a tying extra point, Deal kept his offense on the field to go for two.

The Foxes converted, when Salerno hit receiver Cody Kirsch with the conversion.

"They went for two," Contreras said. "So we knew right there what we needed to do."

Woodland Hills then went out and did it with that final drive.

But arriving at that point for both teams was a bit of a pingpong match.

The Foxes scored the lone points of the first quarter, when Salerno dropped back and hit Duquette on a post pattern from 23 yards. From there, the game got pulled wide open, with 34 combined second-quarter points.

Dom Timbers, who finished with 171 yards and five scores, scored three rushing touchdowns for the Wolverines in the second quarter, and Fox Chapel scored when Lamont White scampered 59 yards and Kirsch pulled in a 6-yard touchdown with just 14 seconds left before the half to give the Foxes a 21-20 lead.

Timbers added two more scores in the second half, while the Foxes got a 47-yard touchdown from White on a shovel pass late in the third before the end of the game provided the exciting exchange of blows, with Woodland Hills standing after the buzzer sounded.

Fox Chapel has not won five games or more since 1997, when it went to the WPIAL semifinals.

"This is a devastating loss for us and our program," Deal said. "We were on the brink, we go for two to win it and we were 2-0 in the conference and we were right there. We just did not get it done."

No, Fox Chapel didn't get it done -- when Contreras leapt, caught the ball at the apex of his jump and pulled in the touchdown, he made sure of as much.