Deadlocked in a 50-50 tie in Monday night's Colonial League boys basketball showdown against Salisbury, Bangor called a timeout with 5.3 seconds remaining to draw up one last play.

Everyone, even Salisbury head coach Jason Weaver, thought Jeremy Ringland, who finished with a game-high 22 points, would get the ball for a shot at winning it for the Slaters.

Instead, it was another Slater who came up with the game's biggest shot.

Michael Martino caught the ball at the top of the key, and after a few dribbles into the paint, his running lay-in with 0.5 seconds to play gave the Slaters (11-4 overall; 9-1 in Colonial League) a two-point lead and ultimately the victory over the Falcons (11-5 overall; 8-2 in Colonial League) at Salisbury High School.

"I thought it was going to go Ringland," Weaver said. "I thought it was going to be some kind of sequence where Martino was going to penetrate and look for the kick out or something like that.

"I thought we did a good job on Martino. Give him credit for hitting a tough shot. I thought we forced a tough shot at the end, and he drained it."

In a meeting of the top two Colonial League teams and division leaders, the game certainly lived up to the hype after getting postponed from early January.

There were a total of 15 lead changes, including five in the second half. The biggest was that final change that gave the Slaters the lead for good with under a second to play.

"They're up two [games] on us because they're a game ahead of us and they have the tiebreaker," Weaver said. "That's why it was an important game. I thought we played well. It's just little things here and there that made the difference."

Following a rebound and put back shot by Salisbury's Naveed Hadian with 4:04 to play, the Falcons stretched their lead to four (the largest for any team in the fourth quarter). However, the Slaters would go on a 10-4 run to close out the game.

Following a free throw by Shavaughn Morris, a Martino jumper brought the Slaters to within one. Salisbury's Austin Uhl then hit two free throws, but Ringland connected on a three-pointer from the left wing, his third of the game, to tie it at 48-48 with 2:04 to play.

The Slaters would then negate a layup by Eddie Sanchez that put the Falcons ahead by two with two free throws by Martino to tie it back up, 50-50.

"It's tough because we played hard," Weaver said. "We were focused, and I thought we really battled. We gave them too many open looks, and they hit their shots.

The Falcons held the largest lead of the game at six points, and took a 24-19 lead going into halftime. However, whenever the Falcons looked to separate themselves, the Slaters had some sort of response.

Sanchez, who finished with a team-high 20 points, hit a three-pointer early in the third quarter to put the Falcons in front, 27-21. But the Slaters would score eight of the next nine points to tie it at 29-29.

Sanchez and Dasheen Reid hit back-to-back three-pointers as part of another Falcon run that put them ahead 37-32 with 1:00 to play in the third.

But Ringland's three-pointer with 11 seconds remaining in the third cut the deficit to one, and his layup to start the fourth put the Slaters back in front.

"We were up maybe six at one point in the third quarter, and they came back again," Weaver said.

"And then we got a four- or five-point lead, but we could never get that one stop that we needed, that one defensive board."

Aungst finished with 15 points for the Falcons, while Austin Uhl added six points and 10 rebounds.

The Falcons next host Palisades on Thursday at 7 p.m. Tuesday's game against Northern Lehigh was still on as of Tuesday's Press deadline, however it seemed likely to be postponed because of snow.