WICCOPEE — Oh. My. God.

That was the sentiment of the overflow crowd at John Jay High School on Friday night as the Patriots completed a stunning comeback, scoring with eight seconds left in regulation to tie the game and then winning it in double overtime, beating Mamaroneck 34-33 in a Section One, Class AA football semifinal.

The victory puts John Jay into next week’s sectional championship game for the second time in school history. The Patriots will play the winner of the Arlington-New Rochelle game next Saturday at neutral Mahopac High School at Noon.

Coach Tom O’Hare has said repeatedly that the Patriots have something special going on this season, and never was that more true than Friday. Mamaroneck led 27-20 with a chance to put the game away with a 25-yard field goal with 1:22 remaining, but it went wide.

Jay then drove down the field, aided in part by a fourth-and-five pass completion to keep the drive alive and then a critical personal foul call against Mamaroneck, and Ryan Schumacher hit Joe Lisowski for a 15-yard TD pass with eight seconds left. The PAT tied the game at 27-27, sending it to overtime.

Jay held the Tigers on their first possession of OT, but the Patriots missed a game-winning field goal that sent it into double OT.

In the second overtime, John Jay had the ball first and scored to go up 34-27 on a touchdown run by Brad Belotti. It appeared the Patriots were going to wrap it up on defense with two sacks that pushed the Tigers back, but Bill Flatlow hit Alex Parkinson with a 35-yard touchdown pass on third down to pull Mamaroneck within one. With the defense exhausted, Mamaroneck coach Anthony Vitti decided to go for two and the win, but Jay stopped Marquez Jackson-Allen short of the goal line for the win.

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