BEL AIR, Md. - Freshman forward Jalen Thompson scored the game-winning lay-up off an out-of-bounds play with 0.2 seconds remaining to give Harford an 81-79 victory over Globe Tech in both teams' season openers.

After blowing a 17-point halftime lead, the Fighting Owls had to hold off a furious rally by the Knights. Harford led 60-43 with 11:07 remaining, but Jonathan Grimsley and Globe began to claw back into it. Grimsley scored nine of Globe's 12-straight points to cut the deficit to five points in less than two minutes. The Fighting Owls were held without a field goal for 6:13 while the Knights got back in the game.

Once Cedric Hines made a contested lay-up to extend the lead 63-56, Grimsley answered with five points to begin the back-and-forth, nail-biting finish. Harford never trailed in the second half, but after a Fighting Owls' turnover with 34 seconds left in a 79-77 game, Dan Jenkins knotted the score when he squirted free under the hoop for the lay-up.

Jon Warren tried to go coast-to-coast for the game-winner but lost the ball out of bounds on a contested lay-in with 1.2 seconds remaining, setting up the final play. Hines inbounded the ball under the hoop and while looking to his left, Thompson was left wide open on the right block for the easy winner.
 

Warren had the highlight of the night during Harford's 20-0 first-half run to flip an 18-10 deficit to a 30-18 lead. Warren received the ball on a fast-break and threw down a thunderous jam over Grimsley, who was whistled for the foul. Warren connected on the free throw to tie the game at 18-18.

Grimsley rebounded nicely on the evening, however. After going scoreless in the first half, he finished with a game-high 31 points.

Harford was led by four players in double figures. Warren finished with 18 points, while Thompson and Hines both netted 13. Elliot Wiley scored 12 in his Harford debut to go along with a team-high six rebounds.

The Fighting Owls host Penn State-York on Friday in the second game of a doubleheader.