Windsor — With the score tied at 60 in Friday night’s boys basketball game with Otter Valley, Windsor was playing for the last shot as the clock ran off its final seconds.

With 6 seconds to go, Windsor’s Robbie Slocum launched a shot that hit the rim and bounced out. Otter Valley’s Derek Aines grabbed the rebound, moved quickly over the half-court line, took one more dribble and fired a prayer that was answered. The ball drained through the net as the final horn sounded, giving the Otters a dramatic 63-60 Marble Valley League victory over the Yellowjackets.

“That was chaotic,” Otter Valley coach Greg Hughes said in the understatement of the night.

It was a strange game in that Windsor (1-4), struggling to score this winter, pumped in 22 points in the first quarter against an Otter Valley team that has lost just once in five games after Friday’s result. While the Windsor offense slowed a bit in the second quarter, the Yellowjackets still led, 35-29, at the half.

Then Otter Valley moved into a 2-2-1 zone that seemed to befuddle the Jacks.

“It shouldn’t have,” Windsor coach Harry Ladue said.

But it did. The Otters scored the first 13 points of the third quarter to jump into a 42-35 lead.

“That zone certainly straightened us out,” Hughes said. “We went back to man pressure later, but that zone saved us.”

But the game was far from over, as both teams had hot and cold moments in the fourth quarter.

Windsor started the final period trailing, 46-40, but quickly scored the quarter’s first six points to tie the game.

Three more deadlocks followed before Windsor went on a little spurt to go in front, 59-54, with 2:21 to play. Otter Valley, which was patient even when behind and battling the clock, tied the game at 60-60 with 35.2 seconds to go. Aines sank two free throws and Dylan Mackie snuck underneath for the hoop that brought OV level.

“We had to be patient then.” Hughes said. “It was no time to panic.”

Then it was Windsor’s time to be patient. The Jacks didn’t quite wait long enough.

Otter Valley got 57 of its 63 points from three players. Aines had 26 and two little, energy-filled left-handers, Mackie and Josh Letourneau, had 17 and 14, respectively.

“We didn’t get the ball in the basket when it counted, and they beat us to the loose balls,” Ladue said. “We got outhustled.”

Windsor opened the season with a win against a decent Newport team but has struggled offensively since. With no big man, Otter Valley struggled on the boards early and turned the ball over with regularity as the Jacks took an early 12-point lead. The lack of height also opened up the middle for 6-foot-3 Windsor center Adam Stapleton, who had three put-back baskets in the second quarter to keep Windsor in front.

The game started to change in the closing moments before the half. The Windsor lead was 35-25 with 1:43 to play, but the Otters got the final four points of the period and the first 13 of the third quarter. Windsor, which led by 10 with less than two minutes to go in the second period, trailed by seven with 3:01 to play in the third.

Windsor goes to Thetford on Tuesday.