AUGUSTA - Last team with the ball wins.

Manny Martinez fired the final salvo of a classic Class D boys' basketball final Monday night, banking in a runner off the glass with eight-tenths of a second remaining to give Central Aroostook of Mars Hill a 54-53 victory over Richmond.

Martinez, a junior, led all scorers with 20 points. The Panthers (22-0) wrapped up their third state championship in the last four years.

"That's exactly how we drew it up," Central Aroostook coach Tim Brewer said of the game-winning play.

Sophomore Kasey Brewer added 12 points off the bench for Central Aroostook, including his second 3-pointer of the game with 2:02 left.

Central Aroostook clawed back from a seven-point deficit late in the third quarter to claim a 52-51 lead on Logan McCarthy's second-chance basket with 32 seconds to play.

Richmond (19-2) answered as might have been expected, with Eric Murrin pounding the ball inside to 6-foot-10 senior center Marc Zaharchuk and helping the Bobcats reclaim the lead with 13 ticks showing on the clock.

The Bobcats called timeout and had an opportunity to design a Grant Hill-to-Christian Laettner-style play after the Martinez game-winner, but the ball bounced away from several sets of hands at the horn.

Murrin scored 17 points and tied a Class D title-game record with five 3-pointers. Jason Douglass of Buckfield set the mark back in 1988, the first season of the 3-point shot in Maine tournament play.

Richmond's eight team treys also snapped the mark of seven, shared by four Valley and Central Aroostook teams since 2001. The combined 14 trifectas for both teams was also a record, although it's one not kept by the Maine Principals' Association.

The Panthers answered Murrin's 15 first-half points with 12 from the free-throw line, keeping the game tied at 30 headed into the locker rooms.

Six different Central Aroostook players scored in the third period, but six Zaharchuk points and five by Brandon Lancaster boosted the Bobcats to the biggest lead of the night for either team.

Zaharchuk finished with 13 points and Lancaster nine in the final game of their stellar career together at Richmond.