The Bingham Miners will venture away from home to square off against the Lehi Pioneers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Bingham is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Utah's top teams: Crimson Cliffs, who was ranked 23rd in their home state at the time (Bingham was ranked tenth). Bingham walked away with a 17-7 win over Crimson Cliffs on Friday.
Bingham's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but John Kulimushi led the charge by picking up 101 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the match if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Lehi's strategy against Desert Hills on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Lehi blew Desert Hills out of the water with a 35-0 final score. The Pioneers pushed the score to 28-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Thunder had little chance of recovering from.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Lehi to victory, but perhaps none more so than Wayde Watson, who picked up 49 receiving yards and a touchdown, and also rushed for 95 yards on only 11 carries. Another player making a difference was Mays Madsen, who picked up 96 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
The victory got Bingham back to even at 1-1. As for Lehi, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 2-0.
Everything went Bingham's way against Lehi in their previous matchup back in November of 2016 as Bingham made off with a 37-14 victory. Will Bingham repeat their success, or does Lehi have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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