Austin Finarelli scored 23 points, Nick Nocito added 19 and they combined on the game-deciding run Wednesday night when Dallas turned back visiting Williamsport, 64-57, in a non-league boys game.
Both teams come out of the game with 7-3 records.
Dallas, a Class 4A contender, was playing its third straight game against a winning Class 6A team. The Mountaineers had lost their previous two.
Williamsport fell to 2-2 against District 2 opponents.
Michael Cumbo and Jackson Wydra each added 11 points as four players handled all the Dallas scoring.
Cumbo got the Mountaineers started with eight points in the first quarter to help create a 24-11 lead.
That advantage grew to 16 points in the second quarter before the Millionaires began fighting back.
Williamsport closed the deficit to five heading into the fourth quarter and tied it up at 47-47.
The Millionaires completed a 16-4 run with the first five points of the fourth quarter. Kenon Brown had 3-pointers late in the third and 28 seconds into the fourth to spark the run.
Soon after the Millionaires caught up, Dallas ran away again.
Williamsport tied the game at 47-47 and 49-49, but Dallas answered with Nocito setting up Wydra 8 seconds after the first tie, then hitting a reverse layup 15 seconds after the second.
The Nocito reverse layup off a baseline drive started an 11-0 run.
Nocito hit a long 3-pointer after a Cumbo steal, then pushed the ball up the floor off a defensive rebound.
Finarelli took Nocito’s lead pass and fed Wydra in transition.
Nocito ran out with the next defensive rebound and fed Finarelli, then the same combination produced again in transition off a long lead pass for a 60-49 lead with 3:55 left.
After Nocito fouled out with 3:14 remaining, Williamsport scored the next five points to complete an eight-point streak to get within 60-57.
Finarelli then hit both ends of a one-and-one with 54, then 4 seconds remaining to secure the victory.
Holy Redeemer 78, Wyoming Area 34
Justice Shoats and Matt Prociak combined for 31 first-half points as Holy Redeemer recovered from its first loss of the season to remain in a tie for the Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 lead.
Shoats had 17 of his 25 points and Prociak 14 of his 18 as the Royals raced to a 51-17 halftime lead.
Holy Redeemer is 3-0 in the division and 8-1 overall. It shares first place with Nanticoke, also 3-0.
Dane Schutter had nine points to lead Wyoming Area.
Nanticoke 72, MMI Prep 59
Nanticoke has started WVC Division 2 play with three start road victories after going 1-7 in non-league play up to that point.
Wyoming Seminary 63, Lackawanna Trail 28
Isaiah Stull scored 26 points to lead the Blue Knights to the home-court win in the game between two of the last four winless teams in District 2.
Stull had 12 points in a 21-7 second quarter that produced a 32-14 halftime lead.
Chief Montalvo scored 12 points and Marc Jackett 10 in the win.
Brycen Decker led Lackawanna Trail with 12 points.
