The Blooming Prairie football team was one yard away from forcing overtime as it lost 42-40 at Kenyon-Wanamingo Thursday.

The Knights (7-1 overall) held a two score lead early in the fourth quarter, but BP (6-2 overall) stormed back into the game. Anthony Nelson, who had 162 yards of offense and four TDs, had a 3-yard TD run to pull BP within 42-34 with 9:09 left in the game and Lucas Noble had 5 yard TD run to make it a two-point game with 46 seconds left in the game.

However, BP was stopped at the one-yard line as it tried to run in a game-tying two-point conversion.

The Awesome Blossoms racked up 393 yards of offense in the loss.

“It was a good game offensively,” BP head coach Chad Gimbel said. “Defensively we had a lot of missed tackles and that led to our demise.”

BP will open the Section 2A tournament 7 p.m Wednesday.

BP STATS

Rushing: Lucas Noble, 17-for-81, 2 TD; Anthony Nelson, 14-for-98, 3 TD

Passing: Noble, 17-for-27 190, 1 TD, 2 INT

Receiving: Nelson, 6-for-64; Max Romeo, 5-for-48; Jon Hatch, 4-for-41; Mitchell Jones, 5-for-27, TD