FREDERICK, Md.--Freshman Garrett Williams drilled a clutch three-pointer with six seconds left to give the Hood College men's basketball team (8-15, 5-9 CAC) a stunning 86-83 victory over the Wesley College Wolverines (15-7, 11-2 CAC) Wednesday on Senior Night at Gov. Thomas Johnson High School.

The Blazers, currently in eighth place in the CAC standings, kept their playoff hopes alive with the dramatic upset of the previously top-ranked team in the league. Hood won back-to-back games for the first time since November and handed the Wolverines just their second conference loss of the season. The Blazers, who avenged a 102-88 loss to the Wolverines from January, joined the Marymount University Saints as the only CAC teams to take down Wesley.

After exchanging baskets in the early going, the Wolverines used three straight triples by Evan Martin and a Rashawn Johnson jumper to take an 11-point edge, 34-23, with 8:56 to play in the first half. But Hood gradually chipped away at the deficit, countering Wesley's hot perimeter shooting with a solid inside game. Layups by J'Air Brady, Chris Carson and Tyler Snoots drew the Blazers even at the break (47-47).

Martin buried four of Wesley's seven long-range buckets in the first half. Hood's frontcourt contingent of Snoots, Jeff Willison, Brady and Herb Bowen tallied 28 of Hood's 47 first-half points.

The second half was a different story for the Wolverines, who connected on just 1-of-16 from downtown in the final 20 minutes.

Holding a 64-60 lead with 10:36 to go in the second half, Wesley used a 10-2 run to take its largest lead of the game, 74-62, with 7:32 left in regulation. Johnson netted eight points in the spurt.

But the Blazers made quick work of the double-figure deficit, using a 14-4 run of their own to close to within two, 78-76, with 4:55 to go. Brady swished a pair of three-pointers in the burst. Two minutes later, Tim Abercrombie found Garrett Williams on the perimeter for a three which regained the lead for Hood, 81-80, with 2:58 to play.

Until this point in the game, the Blazers had barely held the lead for three of the game's 37 minutes. But Hood made that late advantage stand, in no small part due to more clutch shooting down the stretch from Williams.

After a Snoots layup gave the Blazers an 83-80 lead, a jumper by Martin cut the Hood lead to one with 1:13 to go. Both teams came up empty on their next shot attempts. Following a missed layup by Alphonso Wright, Willison came up with the carom for Hood. But the Blazers turned the ball over with 26 seconds left and Abercrombie was whistled for a foul on Johnson, sending the CAC's leading scorer to the line for a one-and-one opportunity. Johnson made the first to knot the score at 83-83, but missed the second and Straughn pulled down the board. Straughn put up a quick shot which was off the mark and Johnson grabbed the rebound for Wesley. But Johnson lost the handle at the other end, giving possession back to Hood with nine seconds left.

The Blazers wasted little time getting the ball to Williams, the team leader in threes, and this time the freshman knocked down the game-winning trey off a feed from Abercrombie. After each team burned a timeout, Kevin Johnson had a chance to tie it at the buzzer but his heave from behind the arc rimmed out and the Blazers escaped with the victory.

Brady was one of four Blazers in double figures with a team-high 18 points to go along with six rebounds, four assists and two steals. Snoots came off the bench to net a season-high 14, eclipsing his previous high of 13 which he scored in Hood's last meeting with Wesley. Straughn finished with 13 points and five assists while Abercrombie netted 10 points and a team-high six assists. Willison grabbed a career-high 14 boards, blocked three shots and chipped in nine points.

Martin led all scorers with a career-high 26 points and Johnson added 22 in the losing effort.

Hood has a bye from league play this weekend but returns to the hardwood Wednesday hosting seventh-place Stevenson University at Mount St. Mary's University in the second game of a doubleheader with the Hood women. All fans will be admitted free to both games of the doubleheader, which begins at 6 p.m.