By Dan Weber

NKyTribune sports reporter

The only certainty in the 48th and final minute of the Covington Catholic-Highlands Class 4A classic Friday for the standing-room-only crowd at Ft. Thomas’ David Cecil Stadium was this: One of these teams was about to leave here devastated.

But no one was going to leave early.

Both the cash Harney-led Colonels and the Tayden Lorenzen-driven Bluebirds had done plenty enough to win. In fact, these high school kids had made more plays under more pressure with more skill, determination and poise than you’re liable to see in the next three Bengals’ games.

How often do you see a game where each team makes a game-winning drive – or one that should have been — in the final minute? With two touchdowns scored in the final 41 seconds.

But it was homestand

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