OGDEN — Junior midfielder Nevaeh Peregrina scored a hat trick and Ogden High girls soccer beat Ben Lomond 4-0 late Monday night to do two things: ensure the Tigers swept the season series with the Scots, and set up a high-stakes game against Morgan for the second straight year.

Ogden and Morgan were in the same situation last year at this juncture, facing each other in a high-stakes game that amounted to a region championship. Last year, the Trojans won 3-2 in Morgan to force a split region title after the Tigers won 1-0 in Ogden.

The roles will be reversed this year when the two teams meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. Ogden’s (10-4, 6-1 Region 13) the home team needing a win to capture a share of the region championship and Morgan’s the visiting team hoping to win the region outright.

“It takes us a little bit to start getting in our rhythm, so I think once we get one goal I think that’s when it starts setting the rhythm and starts allowing us to do what we need to do,” Peregrina said of the Ben Lomond game.

If not for Ben Lomond (3-11, 3-4) goalkeeper Dory Jenson, especially in the first 20 minutes of the game, the Tigers would’ve had about 10 goals instead of four. Jenson saved everything Ogden shot at her at first, including a low shot bound for the bottom corner that Jenson dove low to turn away for a corner kick.

Eventually, Peregrina broke the 0-0 deadlock in the 25th minute with the first of her three goals.

Peregrina missed the first shot she attempted and said the Ben Lomond student section started chanting “overrated” at her (she said she knew plenty of kids in the student section having gone to Highland Junior High with them).

Ruth Larsen made it 2-0 about four minutes later with a shot that went in just inside the post.

Peregrina beat a BL defender to a goal kick in the second half and scored with her one-on-one chance.

“It was definitely a super physical game, everyone was just always fighting, always on the ground, always up and down, I’m just glad that we finally came out and were able to have the result that we wanted,” she said.

In the 67th minute, Kate Pulley turned a defender on the right side, her cross into the box missed both an Ogden player and Jenson, but Peregrina was waiting and one-timed the ball into an open net.

“Great win, obviously playing against our crosstown rivals — playing against Ben Lomond obviously there’s a little more to it, with it being their senior night they had a great crowd, it was under the lights and there was a ton of energy in the stadium,” Ogden coach Ryan Robinson said. “We haven’t felt that, even the game up at Morgan didn’t feel this way.”

Ahead of what’s expected to be a playoff-like game on Wednesday, Robinson said Monday’s game provided everything the Tigers could’ve wanted in terms of results and preparation.

Ben Lomond still has a chance to finish third in the region and host a first-round home playoff game in spite of the loss. The Scots have beaten Grantsville and South Summit, the other two teams in the five-team region, by a combined 14-1 in three games and they play South Summit for the second time this Wednesday.

The Scots stood 14th in the 3A RPI as of Monday night before the Ogden game, and seeds 13-20 host first-round games on Saturday, Oct. 8.

Ogden’s looking at a first-round bye in the playoffs with the prospect of a home game in the second round and a road quarterfinal.

Connect with reporter Patrick Carr via email at pcarr@standard.net, Twitter @patrickcarr_ and Instagram @standardexaminersports.

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