WLKY Highlight of the Night: Highlands' Tayden Lorenzen scores game-winning extra point

Jared Lorenzen's son, Tayden, leads Highlands past Frederick Douglas in 2OT

FORT THOMAS, Ky. - No one expects a high school football team to be a shining example of efficiency in their first game of the season. Overcoming inopportune errors is often the key to victory, and that’s what Highlands did…

WLKY Highlight of the Night: Highlands' Tayden Lorenzen scores game-winning extra point

The WLKY Highlight of the Night comes from the Highlands and Frederick Douglass game.

No. 22 on the 22nd: Lorenzen’s heroics push Highlands past Douglass

How can you not be romantic about high school football? On the opening Friday of the season, Highlands junior Tayden Lorenzen, son of the late Jared Lorenzen, a Bluebird and University of Kentucky football legend, delivered the storybook finish. Wearing his father’s old number, No. 22 delivered on August 22, scoring the game-winning touchdown and two-point conversion to lift Highlands past Frederick Douglass, 21-20 in double overtime at Fort Tho…