TIPP CITY — Crazy things happen under a full moon. Bad things happen, too, if you believe werewolf movies.

Crazy and bad would be two adjectives to describe the Tecumseh High School football team’s Friday night. The Arrows lost 28-21 at Tippecanoe, surrendering two touchdowns in the final 94 seconds in a Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division game with major playoff implications.

Tecumseh coach Kent Massie gave his team a pep talk on the field after the game, but the hurt from this loss might linger.

“We played hard. We fought to the end,” Massie said. “I was proud of them for that. Some calls didn’t go our way. That’s the way the game goes.”

The Arrows (6-3, 2-2 CBC) took a 21-14 lead on a 50-yard touchdown run by Mike McKee on the first play of the fourth quarter. They still had that lead with under five minutes to play.

Tecumseh’s first bad break came when Tippecanoe got the ball at the Tecumseh 44-yard line after a Tecumseh punt. A Red Devil defender clobbered the Tecumseh punter on the play, but the official ruled he had gotten a piece of the ball first. Massie said the defender didn’t touch the ball, and the short kick was caused by the collision.

“We should have had a first down there,” Massie said. “They didn’t call that. He drilled him right in the side. He wasn’t in front of the ball. Things happen that way.”

Tippecanoe drove to the Tecumseh 30 with under two minutes to play and faced fourth-and-19. Quarterback Jake Watkins rolled to his left and threw a high-arcing pass off his back foot as the Tecumseh defenders closed in on him. It was a jump ball, and Michael Collett jumped higher than anyone, coming down with it in the back of the end zone with 1:34 to play. The game was tied.

Seconds later, Tippecanoe successfully executed an onside kick, though Tecumseh argued the kicker touched the ball before it went 10 yards.

“We’ve done it before,” Tippecanoe coach Charlie Burgbacher said. “We wanted to do it. If it doesn’t work, we’ll play defense.”

The Red Devils (8-1, 3-1 CBC) then took the lead on a 33-yard run by Jake Polansky with 45.3 seconds to play.

Tecumseh now has to win its regular-season finale and hope for some help to get to the playoffs for the third straight season. It entered the game ranked seventh in Division II, Region 8.

“We’ve got to win next week,” Massie said. “If we win next week, we’ll figure it out from there. A lot of it depends on what (happened Friday). We still may not be out of it. We’ve got to regroup and stick together and come out and practice hard and prepare for Bellefontaine.”