{"id":134138,"date":"2026-03-10T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134138\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:10:09","slug":"troy-stunned-by-bethlehem-centrals-buzzer-beating-game-winner-in-section-2-class-aa-championship-saratogian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134138\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy stunned by Bethlehem Central\u2019s buzzer-beating game-winner in Section 2 Class AA championship \u2013 Saratogian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, N.Y. \u2014 In basketball, game-winning buzzer-beaters have a knack of sending one team into jubilation and the other into heartbreak. Unfortunately for the Troy girls\u2019 varsity basketball team, it had to watch in sullen disbelief after Bethlehem Central\u2019s Ella McCarthy knocked down a clutch jumper from the baseline with just 0.1 left on the clock to give the Eagles a 58-56 lead in the Section 2 Class AA championship game on Monday at Hudson Valley Community College. It wasn\u2019t exactly a buzzer-beater, but it felt that way, as the Flying Horses only had enough time for a half-court heave [\u2026]                            <\/p>\n<p>                            This article is only available to subscribers\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                            Offer valid for non-subscribers only\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY, N.Y. \u2014 In basketball, game-winning buzzer-beaters have a knack of sending one team into jubilation and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,305,241,182,726],"class_list":["post-134138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}