First play of game and we have a problem already!!!

Sounds like you handled it well. Best way you could have done considering the circumstances. Was anyone from the IHSAA there to "second-guess" you?

BTW, Nebraska had playoff games on Halloween night as well, in Classes B-D2. Class A will have games tonight (11/2-Friday). I was taking my kids trick or treating in their mom's neighborhood, and drove past the local high school where the lights were on, etc. I thought it was nuts that there was this much game and Halloween traffic in a residential area where a playoff game was going.