High school baseball: Bengals overcome mistakes to grab win

Article by Andrew Aragon of the Deseret News

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — Just about everything imaginable went against the Brighton Bengals on Wednesday afternoon — base-running mistakes, forgetting to touch home plate, and running into each other while trying to catch fly balls, among other factors.

But the Bengals finally stopped shooting themselves in the um, paws, and earned a 5-4 win over rival Alta in eight innings on Wednesday afternoon. The victory avoided what would have been a surprising and demoralizing three-game Alta sweep on a day when about only one thing didn't go against the Bengals.

"Yeah, we could have lost the game," Brighton coach Kelcey Kemp said when asked if anything else could have gone wrong.

Thanks to a game-winning single by Alec Olsen, a gutsy pitching performance by Gage Matuszak and clutch hitting in the late innings, the Bengals overcame their mistakes.

Brighton was one strike away from losing in the eighth before Ian Fehlauer tied the game with an RBI single. Chase Howell kept the inning alive with a single, and Olsen won it with a long RBI single of his own to end it.

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