La Plume, PA - The Cairn Highlanders and Keystone Giants did not want the season to end. Saturday's season finale kept, going, and going, and going, and going to a total of four overtimes. The Highlanders eventually prevailed after 60 minutes of basketball by a 111-108 final. In a game that offered a little bit of everything, Jeremiah Harris played the role of hero as he knocked down the game winner late in the fourth overtime. Harris' three from the top of the key with just two ticks on the clock broke a 108-108 tie and gave the Highlanders an exhilarating victory in the final game of the season.

Much earlier in the game, Gerroid Doughty II scored his 1,000th career point in the second-half with a 15-foot baseline jumper. Doughty led all scorers in the game with 30 points.

Following a three-point play for Keystone's Ray Mills, the Highlanders clung to a 106-105 lead with 45 seconds left in the fourth overtime period. On the ensuing possession, Jeremiah Harris took the ball to the rack and finished to put Cairn up three with just 19 seconds remaining.

Keystone then called a timeout and subbed Terrence Palmer into the game for the first time. After the timeout, Palmer proceeded to take a pass from Ray Mills and knock down a three from the left wing with 10 seconds on the clock to tie the game at 108-108.

With the Highlanders needing a bucket, Harris stepped into a three from the top of the key. With two seconds on the clock, the sophomore drilled the triple and gave Cairn the 111-108 lead. Keystone's final chance never came, as Doughty stole the inbounds pass and Cairn held on for the dramatic victory.

During regulation of Saturday's game, both the Highlanders and Giants held control of the game at different times. Early in the game is was all Cairn, as the Highlanders opened up a 23-11 lead in the first 9:27 of the contest. The early stretch was fueled by 10 points from Gerroid Doughty II. During the run, Cairn shot 9-14 from the floor and 4-6 from downtown.

Keystone slowly started to chip away at the Cairn lead and eventually took a one-point, 39-38 lead into the half. A large portion of the comeback for the Giants came from a 9-0 run that included six free throws late in the period.

Early in the second-half the game remained close, with neither team taking more than a five-point lead. With Cairn trailing 53-51 with 11:44 remaining in regulation, Doughty stepped into a jumper on the left baseline and drained the 15-footer for his 1,000th career point. After tying a career-high 30 points on Saturday, Doughty completes his career with 1,015 points with 878 of those points coming at Cairn in his last two season.

Following Doughty's historic jumper the Giants went on a quick 11-0 run to take their largest lead of the game at 64-53 with 9:17 remaining in regulation. Cairn then countered, scoring the next 11 points and 22 of the next 27 points to take a 75-69 lead with 3:17 remaining. Zachary Dolton chipped in 11 points during the run, including a trio of threes.

Keystone then ended regulation on an 8-2 run to tie the game at 77-77 and force the first overtime.

Halfway through the first overtime, Cairn trailed 84-79, but Jeremiah Harris hit a jumper and Gerroid Doughty II completed an and-one play to tie the game at 84-84 with 1:32 left in the period. Neither team could find the bottom of the cup over the final 90 seconds. Cairn had a look at the end of the period, but two shots were off the mark and the game headed to a second overtime.

Just two buckets came in the second overtime period with Deion Monroe scoring for Keystone and Harris for Cairn. In the second overtime, it was Keystone with an opportunity at the buzzer but a three was off the mark and the came trudged on.

The third overtime offered a bit more scoring, with Doughty connecting on a three and a layup to put Cairn up five in the first minute. Kyle Diaz then knocked down back-to-back threes for Keystone to put the Giants up one with 3:19 left in the period.

After a jumper for Cairn and a free throw from Keystone the game was level again at 93-93. In the final minute of the period, Harris finished a layup on the left side, but Keystone immediately responded with a layup of their own.

With the game now tied at 95-95 a jumper by Dolton was blocked late in the period. Fortunately for Cairn, the Giants were unable to get off a shot and the horn sounded sending the game to a fourth overtime period.

The fourth overtime was a back-and-forth frenzy that saw the two teams get hot from the field. Cairn and Keystone combined to go 11-15 from the floor in the final five minutes with all four misses coming from downtown (4-8 combined).

Ray Mills started the period for Keystone with a three, but Cairn scored the next six points to swing the lead in their favor, 101-98. Cairn led by as many as four on two different occasions in the final period, the first coming after Doughty knocked down a three with 2:03 remaining and then after a Keystone layup, Zachary Dolton finished a layup to put Cairn up 106-102 with 53 seconds on the clock.

Dolton's layup sparked a crazy final minute that saw 13 total points scored on a combined 5-5 shooting effort from the field between the two teams. As noted above, Harris' dramatic three highlighted the final minute and gave Cairn the 111-108 victory in an instant classic.

As mentioned, Doughty led all scorers with 30 points in the contest. Joining Doughty in double-figures were Harris (26 points), Zachary Dolton (22), and Seil Park (15). Dolton and Harris also grabbed 14 and 11 rebounds respectively, for a pair of Cairn double-doubles. JD Zamroz finished just a point shy of a double-double with nine points and 10 rebounds in his final game as a Highlander.

For Keystone, Khyle Diaz (27 points) and Deion Monroe (20 points) led five double-digit scorers.

The marathon game lasted two hours and 24 minutes from the opening tip to the final horn. It saw 16 lead changes and nine ties over the 60 minutes of game play.

A quick look at the record books shows that Cairn's 111 points on Saturday are their most in a single game since joining the NCAA.

With the victory Cairn improves to 7-18 overall and 5-13 in the CSAC. Despite a number of injuries throughout the season, Cairn finishes the year in seventh in the conference, just one spot out of the playoffs. The Highlanders' seven overall victories are their second-most in a single season since joining the CSAC prior to the 2009-10 season.