Football: Hill-Murray falls in Class 4A state quarterfinals

The transitive property of equality is that if two things are each equal to a third thing, they must be equal to each other.

If one were to use that fundamental mathematical principle — often referenced as if A=B and B=C then A=C — entering Thursday’s Class 4A state football quarterfinal, things did not look promising for Hill-Murray but did for Kasson-Mantorville.

That’s because the KoMets overcame an 11-point halftime deficit to take down top-ranked Byron 31-28 in last week’s section title game. Byron crushed Hill-Murray by 36 points in mid-September.

At Stillwater High School, the principle held up.

Jeremiah Peterson ran for two scores and had a touchdown catch, Keymoni Bent returned an interception 100 yards for a touchdown and Kasson-Mantorville beat the Pioneers 35-21.

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