Belief and 'brotherhood' carried Kasson-Mantorville to the Prep Bowl

MINNEAPOLIS — Grady Babcock looked around at his teammates as they huddled near the Kasson-Mantorville sideline. Seventy-four seconds remained in the Class 4A Prep Bowl — the high school football state championship game — at U.S. Bank Stadium late Friday afternoon. Babcock and the KoMets trailed by a touchdown against Orono, but K-M owned the second half, the momentum, the ball and the luxury of having multiple playmakers whose number could be called in such a pressure-packed situation. The KoMets faced a fourth down-and-2 after two of those playmakers — senior Jeremiah Peterson-Gordon and sophomore Keymoni Bent — traded carries on six consecutive plays, moving the ball from midfield to the...