MASSILLON -- It only takes one shot to save a season.

That's the lesson the Berlin Hiland girls basketball team learned Thursday night at Perry High School, where the Hawks pulled off a 57-52 overtime win over Lutheran East in a Division IV Regional semifinal.

Hiland advanced to play Cuyahoga Heights in the Perry regional championship Saturday at 7:30 p.m., thanks to a 3-pointer from Hawks senior Noelle Yoder at the fourth-quarter buzzer, tying the game at 44 to send it into OT.

Trailing by 3 points with just five seconds on the clock, Hiland had to go the length of the floor following a made free throw by Falcons senior Latisha Walker. So Hawks head coach David Schlabach called a timeout to set up a play.

"We call it our home run play," Schlabach said. "We ran it three times over the summer at different venues, and (Yoder) made it every time."

So when Yoder received a long pass from teammate Hilary Weaver, Schlabach had little doubt that Yoder would come through.

"She's just that kind of kid, man," he said. "She wants the ball in those situations. Once that ball was in the air, I knew it was going in."

The Hawks (24-2) celebrated wildly after the basket, but there was still work to be done. Overtime still needed to be played, especially considering the Falcons (21-5) dominated most of regulation.

In overtime, the Hawks did their damage from the charity stripe. Stutzman and Weaver combined on a 7-0 run that included 5-for-5 shooting fouls. Overall, Weaver went 8-for-9 from the line in OT (and 10-for-11 for the game), finishing with a game-high 22 points. Yoder added 21.

Not to be lost in all the Hawks' offensive fireworks was the job they did defensively in the second half, particularly late in the fourth and OT. Before that, they had been dominated inside by 6-foot-1 Falcons junior Amber Bogard (16 points) and Walker (10), also 6-1 and headed to Xavier University in the fall.

"They played with so much confidence, we just couldn't get anything to work," Schlabach said. "It's not surprising. We told the girls back in the summer that if they want to get to Columbus (for the state tournament), we would have to go through Lutheran East. And the way things were going most of tonight, something special had to happen for us at the end."