Unity Christian's senior boys basketball team hit two three-pointers in the last five seconds of the Fraser Valley Championship final Saturday to snatch their first-ever title out from under B.C. Christian Academy.

Chilliwack's lone single-A boys team entered the tournament ranked third in the province and handily defeated Agassiz 94-28 in the first round Wednesday.

They got past eighth-ranked St. Jean Brebeuf 71-56 Thursday to set up a showdown with seventh-ranked B.C. Christian Academy in the championship final Saturday.

Unity had split with the Port Coquitlam team in tournaments earlier in the year, and the game was a battle from the start that saw B.C. Christian Academy with a 30-28 lead at halftime.

Heading into the third, the Flames were down 41-40, but back-to-back BCCA threes buried Unity by eight with 1: 25 minutes to go.

"Things then went perfectly," Unity coach Mike Campbell said.

First, the Flames stole four quick transition baskets by mixing up four different presses.

Then-with seven seconds left in the game-BCCA turned over the ball on an expired shot clock.

With 3.3 seconds to go, Unity's Kevin VanRyk (Grade 12) sank a game-tying three-pointer. Then BCCA gave up possession again after throwing the ball out of bounds.

"Thankfully we still had one timeout left and we were able to draw up a play to hit our other Grade 12, Ryan Billsten, for an open three-pointer," Campbell said. "Unbelievably, it fell and the crowd of 300 screaming Unity fans went nuts."

Billsten was voted tournament MVP and VanRyk earned a tournament all star.

Unity-who host the single-A provincial championships at UFV in Abbotsford March 6 to 9-begin their provincial run March 6 against 13th seed Mount Sentinel from Nelson. A win would pit them against arch nemesis Immaculata, who killed Unity's B.C. title hopes last year with a buzzer beater in the provincial quarter-final.

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