MINNEAPOLS — It was an amazing hockey shot, with the puck sliding into a tiny hole from center ice for a $50,000 prize. But a penalty was called on the Minnesota boy who made the shot during a charity event because his twin brother should have been wielding the stick.

The company that insured the event, Odds On Promotions of Reno, Nev., said Wednesday that due to “contractual breaches and legal implications” it was unable to pay the claim. Instead, the company said it would donate $20,000 to youth hockey in Minnesota in the boys’ names.

With one shot, 11-year-old Nate Smith hit the puck through a hole cut into a board from 89 feet away during a charity hockey game at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in the southern Minnesota city of Faribault on Aug. 11. But it was Nate’s identical twin, Nick, whose raffle ticket won the chance to take the shot at a hole just slightly larger than the puck.

The boys’ father, Pat Smith of Owatonna, said Nick was going outside with his buddies and told his brother to try.

“It didn’t even dawn on me he (Nate) was going to make it,” Smith told The Associated Press. Wednesday.

He told organizers the next day about his sons’ swap. “You could tell they weren’t feeling right about it,” Smith said of the boys.