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South Jordan • Maybe Bingham junior defenseman Jacob Angeletti was not in his normal position on the field midway through the second half.

Then again, maybe he shouldn't even have been on the field at all, as his own coach characterized him as "having a fever."

Under the weather, putting pressure on the Brighton goal — it turned out Angeletti was in the right place at the right time.

When a collision inside the Bengals' box sent Angeletti to the turf and a foul was called on the visitors, Bingham senior Stantson Miles stepped up and converted the penalty kick in the 56th minute, which turned out to be the crucial goal in a 2-1 boys soccer match on Tuesday.

"Brighton is a great team and I was expecting a great match — and that's what it turned out to be," Miles said. "We just like to commit numbers forward every time we can. I thought the ref made the right call. (The Bengals defender) came across him, knocked him down. It wasn't a hard penalty or anything, but I thought it was a foul."

Miles also had a head in the first goal of the game for top-ranked Bingham (12-0, 9-0). In the 18th minute, Miles headed a ball off a Miners' corner kick that deflected off Brighton keeper David Shumway. Waiting to capitalize was Bingham senior Zach Nielsen, who slammed home the rebound shot into thenet.

Brighton (11-3, 7-3) evened the game before halftime when freshman Matt Turner stroked a rebound shot of his own from point-blank range.

After the showdown Region 3 contest between the top two teams in Class 5A, Brighton coach Tom Cushing focused on the early part of the game.

"I was extremely disappointed with how we played today. We came out, I thought, flat and we came out reactive, waiting around and they took the game to us right off the bat," Cushing said. "We started scrambling and we were back on our heels, watching them playing and trying to hold off."

The contest was a rematch of an overtime victory by Bingham at Brighton on April 1.

Trying to force overtime on Tuesday, Brighton missed a trio of game-tying chances in the last 15 minutes. Two of those came via the play of Bengals' keeper Tanner Bengtzen, who dove left to save a shot by Ben Frankhauser in the 73rd minute.

In the last seconds of the match, another shot by Frankhauser was deflected away by Bengtzen to seal the win.

"They're a tough opponent. We tried to put some high pressure on them and not give them that space," Miners' coach Ahmed Bakrim said. "And they put a lot of pressure on us."