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l Park City won its second consecutive Class 3-A soccer championship and fifth in the last nine years.

l Kelly Isleib shook off an ankle injury she suffered Friday and scored once.

l Goalie Alex Phillips posted the shutout.

WASHINGTON TERRACE - It was a predicament Park City's Kelly Isleib would rather not have gone through during the final two postseasons of her high school soccer career.

But in the end, it worked out - again.

Isleib, a University of Utah recruit, played in her second consecutive Class 3-A championship with a sprained ankle. And for the second straight year, Isleib fought through the pain and led the Miners to the title.

Isleib scored once to help Park City to a 3-0 win over Ben Lomond on Saturday. It clinched the Miners' fifth state girls' soccer championship in the last nine years.

Isleib sprained her ankle in Park City's 4-1 win over Waterford on Friday. She did the same thing in the semifinals last year.

“It's more about heart your last game, so I just went out there and played as much as I could and did as much as I could for my team,” Isleib said. “We all got the job done. It's not just one player.”

Isleib was her usual clutch self Saturday but found herself in an unfamiliar position when the contest started - on the sideline. She sat out the game's first 10 minutes while resting her sore ankle and sizing up the Scots.

“I didn't mind it at all,” Isleib said. “I tried to see how they played. I had faith in my team, so I wasn't really worried.”

The first half was tailored to Ben Lomond's defensive style of play. The Scots held the explosive Miners scoreless for the first 27 minutes until Isleib helped set up a sliding shot by freshman Hanna Terry, who just got the ball past Ben Lomond keeper Brandy Knotts.

Things heated up in the second half. After a Ben Lomond player got a yellow card early in the game's 49th minute, Isleib scored to put Park City up 2-0.

Later, Ben Lomond's Amber Bills received a red card for throwing an elbow at Park City's Penny Moffett, who then got yellow-carded for pulling Bills to the ground. The incident sparked a heated argument between the two coaching staffs. The Miners accused the Scots of playing dirty, while Ben Lomond coach Don Greenfield loudly defended himself.

“I don't teach my kids to play that way,” Greenfield said.

After the game, Park City coach Chip Cook offered an apology.

“We got a little emotional and reacted to what happened to our player,” Cook said. “We're partly responsible for his reaction. We feel really bad about it.”

The teams calmed down and played evenly until junior Elli Reed put an exclamation point on Park City's stellar 19-1 season by scoring with 17 seconds remaining.