The 3 with 1.8 seconds remaining becomes the game-winner as Duanesburg tops Spa Catholic

GLENS FALLS - Senior Jansen Proulx was 0 for 3 from behind the arc.

His team down 48-47, with his and teammate Jeffrey Mulhern's high school career about to come to a close.

Until 1.8 seconds left, when his three pointer from the right wing pulled the Eagles past the Saratoga Catholic Saints, 50-48, in the Section 2 Class C Semifinals at the Cool Insuring Arena.  

WATCH: Jansen Proulx's 3 for Duanesburg pulls them ahead with 1.8 seconds left 

Proulx would finish with 10 points, and Mulhern continued his scoring ways with 30 as one of the top scorers in Section 2. 

But it didn't come easy.  Spa Catholic tossed everything at Mulhern, and for awhile, it seemed like the senior was going to play his last high school game.  Spa Catholic was double teaming Duanesburg's best scorer, and David Redgrave was nailing shots behind the arch.

Redgrave would make 6 threes, scoring a total 20 points, helped by teammate Tyler Hicks, who scored 17.

Spa Catholic carried a 36-32 lead into the 4th quarter, having taken the lead after gifted momentum off an attempted steal foul at the end of the 1st half that allowed the Saints to break a 12-0 Duanesburg run.  And despite scoring his 2,000th point, Mulhern and the Eagles were down 36-32 entering the fourth quarter.

But Mulhern has been in this situation several times before.   

And the Eagles would chip away, but Spa Catholic battled back, grabbing a 48-45 lead off one of Redgrave's threes.

Then came Proulx's game-winner.

And now Duanesburg is off to the Section 2 Class C Championship, where the Eagles will get a familiar foe ... Berne-Knox-Westerlo, a team they lost to twice this season as fellow members of the Western Athletic Conference.

Those two losses are the lone two on Duanesburg's now 21-2 season as they seek their first sectional championship since 2023.  But in 2023, the Eagles didn't get to play in the State Tournament.

Section 2's Class C was broken down into two groups, and Duanesburg would prevail as Sectional Champions in Class C, but would lose in the play-in versus Chatham, the Class CC Champion, to see which of the two would move onto the State Tournament.

The Sectional Championship is Sunday, 12:45PM at the McDonough Athletic Complex at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy.