CANTON – Immediately following the Division I state football championship on Saturday, Hilliard Davidson coach Brian White boarded a plane for Las Vegas.

Actually, he didn’t. But he should have.

For the second time in as many trips to the state final, White elected to go for a two-point conversion and the win rather than overtime. And for the second time he guessed right.

Thanks to a jaw-dropping performance by senior quarterback Jake Trubiano, Davidson won its second state title in four years with a shocking come-from-behind 16-15 win over Glenville at Canton’s Fawcett Stadium.

Trubiano, who rushed for 196 yards on 18 carries, catapulted the Wildcats in front with a successful two-point attempt with just 1:04 remaining. The winning score was set up by a 73-yard Trubiano run on first-and-ten from the Davidson 23 with 3:11 left.

“Jake Trubiano is a warrior,” White said. “I think he proved it there with that great run and the two-point conversion.”

Said Trubiano: “This is a dream come true. We pulled through.”

Trubiano’s performance was complimented nicely by that of teammate Spencer Delande. Delande, whose older brother Bo ran for five TDs and scored the winning two-point conversion in the Wildcats 2006 victory over Mentor, capped Davidson’s final drive with a two-yard TD run. He then intercepted a Glenville pass with 12 seconds left to end any Tarblooder heroics.

Junior Rico Butler added 59 yards on 11 carries and scored the Wildcats first TD on a 24-yard run. Davidson racked up 250 yards of offense – all on the ground. The Wildcats attempted just two passes.

“We were hoping to make it a four quarter game and obviously it came down to that,” White said. “We felt like if we could be in it in the fourth quarter we’d give ourselves a chance to win.”

Said Delande: “When we were down with three minutes left no one gave up.”

Added Trubiano: “I thought maybe we could have a regular game where there wasn’t a comeback, but when we were down by a touchdown we knew we could come back.”

The come-from-behind win was Davidson’s second in a row. Last week the Wildcats went 80 yards on their final drive and scored – on a two-yard run from Delande – with 33 seconds left to beat Cincinnati Elder 24-20 in the state semifinals.

Glenville, playing in its first state championship game, fell painfully shy of becoming the first Cleveland Public School to win a state football title.

The Tarblooders fell behind 8-0 in the third quarter but responded with 15 straight points.

Junior quarterback Cardale Jones scored on a 10-yard run and then found Nicholas Davis for a two-yard TD pass.

Glenville looked to be in great shape with 4:51 to go and the ball at the Davidson 25-yardline following a botched punt. But the Tarblooders failed to convert a first down and turned the ball over with 3:11 left. On the next play Trubiano went 73 yards.

“We had a few drops here and there and some mistakes but we played sound football,” Glenville head coach Ted Ginn Sr. said. “It wasn’t God’s willing.”