ROY — There were a handful of key plays down the stretch of Tuesday’s girls basketball game between Roy High and Weber.

A late, banked 3-pointer by Roy senior guard Sha’Kyra Joiner gave the Royals the lead with about a minute remaining.

Two made free throws by Weber’s Katelynn Butler tied the game again with 54 seconds left.

Then, possibly the biggest two plays in Roy’s nail-biting 36-35 win came in the final 37 seconds.

“Absolutely Nicole Williams, if there’s a thing she can do right now, just rebound the basketball,” DeHoff said.

Tied 35-all, Roy’s Nicole Williams rebounded a missed shot with 37.7 seconds left and made one free throw to give the Royals a 36-35 lead.

And, after a series of missed shots and fouls at the other end, Joiner went to the free-throw line with 3.2 seconds left, missed the front end of a one-and-one — and there was Williams again with the rebound and 1.9 seconds left.

Tuesday’s game added to Roy’s (2-0) win column, but also might underscore the importance of rebounding given it limited what remained of Weber’s (0-1) options for a game-winning shot attempt.

“(Nicole Williams) did exactly what she was supposed to do and got under that kid and came up with a huge rebound. If we don’t get that, there’s more time on the clock and who knows what happens,” DeHoff said.

Before the late-game drama — Roy hadn’t practiced late-game situations yet, by the way — Tuesday’s game was all about scoring runs and looked like it would eventually be decided by which team had the ball last.

The Warriors took a 12-3 lead on a Jazmyn Bennett and-one at the 2:01 mark of the first quarter, prompting a Roy timeout. Bennett co-led Weber in scoring with 15 points.

Whatever happened in the timeout, it must have helped the Royals because they went on a 12-0 run over the next 5:19 of game time.

Roy took a 15-12 lead with 4:42 left in the second quarter on a 3-pointer by Talitha Humble that looked to be heading long until it hit the spot where the rim meets the backboard and plopped down through the net.

Then Weber went on another run, 10-2, to close the first half. Butler’s wide-open 3 with five seconds left made it a 22-17 halftime lead for the Warriors.

Butler scored 12 of Weber’s 22 first-half points on shots from all over and finished with 15 points.

Next, it was a 14-3 Roy run in the third quarter that started with two 3-pointers by Sha’Keria Joiner, assisted by her sister Sha’Kyra Joiner. Weber didn’t make a field goal in the third quarter (its three points came from free throws) and wasn’t called for a foul, either.

Sha’Keria Joiner finished with 12 points and Sha’Kyra Joiner had nine. The two of them combined to make three 3-pointers.

“At the start of the second half, I told Sha’Kyra that we’ve got to get Sha’Keira going, so we gotta find a way to get her the basketball and that’s what I think her focus was, to get her sister going and that helped the rest of us to kind of get comfortable again,” DeHoff said.

That gave the Royals a 31-25 lead heading into the fourth, where Weber went back to Bennett inside. She got three baskets to go down and tie the game at 31-all. Bennett finished with 15 points.

Weber’s scoring run ended up being 8-1 before the late, banked 3 by Sha’Kyra Joiner and additional late-game misses, inbounds, fouls and rebounds that helped Roy hang onto the lead.

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