Every year, we have a few of those “you had to see it” moments in high school sports across the state. That’s why we love high school sports. The support student-athletes receive from their communities is certainly not unique to Maine, but that doesn’t make it any less special.

The Class B girls basketball championship game. Did you see it? There was Biddeford, dissolving a seven-point deficit in the final 90 seconds of the fourth quarter to send it to overtime, where it had a 48-45 lead with 1.5 seconds left.

The improbable becomes fact so quickly in sports, if you blink it’s gone. That’s what happened next.

Caribou’s Madelyn Deprey made two free throws, despite trying to miss the second, cutting the Tigers lead to one point with 1.5 seconds left. There’s Vikings freshman — FRESHMAN — Quinn Corrigan with the steal of the inbounds pass. There she is with 0.4 seconds left, calmly sinking the tying and go-ahead free throws to give her team its first state title in 42 years.

It’s possible to simultaneously feel joy for Caribou and sorrow for Biddeford. We live for the moments that elicit these emotional paradoxes.

Did you see the seventh inning of the Class B baseball final between Greely and Ellsworth?

There’s Greely, down to its last out and staring at a four-run deficit. Suddenly, after a few walks, an error, and a single, Kyle Soule is driving in the tying run, with runners still on first and second. Then there’s a passed ball, but Wes Piper slips and can’t advance to third. Sawyer Boudle, though, is charging into second like it’s the only place on Earth he needs to be. Boudle gets into the rundown, and Piper takes off, rounds third and slides across the plate with the go-ahead run before the Eagles can tag Boudle for the final out of the inning.

If it was fiction, it would be deemed unrealistic.

Biddeford’s Payton Blais made a game-saving catch in the Class A baseball championship that got him a spot on ESPN’s top 10 plays of the day and helped get his team a state title. Caroline Rousseau’s overtime goal against Brunswick in the girls hockey state final gave the Stags a third straight state title and capped one of the best state championship games of the year, regardless of sport. Falmouth’s Davis Mann scored 43 points in the Class A boys basketball state championship game, leading his team to a come-from-behind overtime win over Messalonskee. This came after Mann led the Navigators over Noble, 56-53, in the regional final.

The Messalonskee and Cony boys hockey teams played a late-night (or was it early morning) playoff game at Colby College’s Jack Kelley Rink, starting at 10:45 Saturday night and not ending until 12:35 a.m. Sunday, thanks to a Colby men’s hockey playoff game that went double overtime earlier in the day. The players who took part and the fans who stuck around have lifelong memories.

The Portland/Deering girls swimming team reminded us what teams can accomplish, winning a second straight state title, this one without a single individual state champion. The Old Orchard Beach football team helped put to bed the idiotic notion that eight-man football isn’t real football with a dominating performance in the small school state championship game. Richmond’s Gavin Grover scored the game-winning goal, in borrowed cleats no less, with 24 seconds left to lift the Bobcats to the Class D boys soccer state title.

All that is just a sample of the fantastic stuff we saw in Maine high school sports this past year. There’s no doubt you have your own favorite memories. There’s no doubt next year at this time we’ll have plenty of new moments and athletes to showcase.

That’s the great thing about those “you had to see it moments.” If you miss one, there’s always another coming.