They won their first two - road trips to North Attleboro and Stoughton. After a double-digit loss to Franklin, the Warriors took a double-digit decision at Milford. With the chance of qualifying for the playoffs via second place in the Davenport eliminated by a home loss to Canton, Foxboro needed to win their last game of the season: a trip to non-league opponent Plymouth South.
The Panthers took a one point lead at 57-56 with just 4.1 seconds to play. With the inbounds under its own hoop, Foxboro elected to go with senior captain Tim O'Halloran.
David Carty captured the exhilarating moment for The Foxboro Reporter:
It became something of a refrain to senior Tim O’Halloran by season’s end, yet in the second half of Thursday afternoon’s game, the starting guard found himself watching from the bench. The streaky but athletic long-range shooter had settled for too many low percentage shots and went scoreless in the first period.
That’s when Foxboro High coach C.J. Neely repeated the same advice he had throughout the year: go to the rim.
O’Halloran scored six second half points, all layups, but none more noteworthy than his buzzer-beating streak to the hoop, giving Foxboro a 58-57 win over host Plymouth South and sending the Warriors to the MIAA Tournament.
The Panthers had taken a two-point lead with Dillon Slattery (nine points) sinking a 10-foot baseline jumper with 4.1 seconds to play. Foxboro called a timeout, attempted one inbounds pass, which was immediately deflected out of bounds. Then, seeing the Panthers adjust their defense, Neely called another timeout to set up the game-winning play, which saw Tommy Rogers inbounding the ball from the far end line to O’Halloran, streaking just inside and parallel to the center line toward the scorer’s table, turning up the court and – with the crowd loudly counting down the game’s final second, delivering the successful right-handed layup with a Panthers defender unsuccessfully attempting to draw an offensive foul.