Arlyn Brown’s buzzer-beater gives Elmont Long Island Class AA boys basketball championship over Half Hollow Hills East

This wasn’t supposed to be Arlyn Brown’s moment. But the Elmont junior guard knew if the ball ended up in his hands, he was going to make this his moment.

Elmont called a timeout with less than three seconds left and the score tied at 51 in the fourth quarter. Plan A for the inbound play in front of midcourt was to find Cassius Moore. Plan B was finding a big man at the basket. Plan C … that one wasn’t drawn up.

Gemere Frias-Walsh, the inbounder, had to create plan C. Brown ended up being that Plan C.

“I knew there was little time on the clock so I had to make a play and get us to the next round,” Brown said. “The play we drew up didn’t work exactly how we wanted it to, so I had to make a play.”

Boy, did he make a play that won’t be forgotten anytime soon in the Long Island basketball community. Brown flashed open in front of Gemere Frias-Walsh to beat a five-second violation, took two dribbles, pulled up behind the right elbow and banked in the winning basket as time expired to give Elmont a 53-51 victory over Half Hollow Hills East in the boys basketball Long Island Class AA championship/Southeast Regional Final at Farmingdale State College on Saturday afternoon.

“I didn’t know if it was going to go in or not, but I shot it and I had a lot of hope behind it,” Brown said. “And when it went in, it just felt awesome. It was unreal. The way the crowd stormed and how everyone screamed my name, it was an actual dream.”

A handful of Elmont students and fans rushed the court after the winning shot before security quickly escorted them off without incident.

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