Mesa Mountain View's girls basketball program has been the most consistent in the city for a long time. But in the new millennium the Lady Toros don't have a state title to show for it. Sister schools Dobson and Red Mountain do.

Mountain View continued on its path to try and rectify that  Wednesday night when it renewed a dormant rivalry with Brown Road neighbor to the east, Red Mountain. The result was a somewhat improbable 49-48 victory at Red Mountain in a Division I clash.

Mountain View notched its 15th win the season against just one loss and has beaten Red Mountain (11-5) the last six times the teams have played. The schools didn't meet the last two seasons and last time Red Mountain beat Mountain View was in the 2007 5A-I championship game.

Junior point guard Renee Coggins supplied Mountain View with the improbable win by sinking two free throws with 1.9 seconds left. Coggins scored Mountain View's final five points and finished with 10. That was only the third time all night the Lady Toros led and the only time they led in the second half. They had a 6-0 lead in the first four minutes and a very brief 23-22 edge in the second quarter. Mountain View trailed by as many as 12 with less than two minutes left in the third period.

"We always have a tough time here and tonight was no exception," Mountain View coach Henry Bribiescas said, a bit stunned by the final result himself. "We had some younger kids out there at times and they played like young players. We managed to get it together near the end, and willed it."

Red Mountain, led by senior post Shea Brown (game-high 19 points) and senior guard Mariah Willadsen (15 points), kept Mountain View on the short end of the score with their play.

Red Mountain had taken advantage of the absence of Mountain View's best player, senior guard Arnecia Hawkins, who remained sidelined by an ankle injury suffered Dec. 21 in the Nike TOC. Mountain View still got production from Hawkins -- her younger sister Armani -- who tallied a team-high 16 points. Thirteen of those came in the second half. Mountain View was outscored in each of the first three quarters. They Lady Toros made their run with Armani Hawkins' offense and fourth-quarter fouls woes of Willadsen.

Willadsen picked up her fourth foul with 7:29 left in the game and headed to the bench. Mountain View  wen to tork whittling an eight-point deficit to three, 41-38, with 5:43 to go. Red Mountain went into turnover mode without Willadsen handling the ball. Red Mountain committed nine turnovers in the final period.

Red Mountain coach Martin Appel brought Willadsen back in at that point and the Lady Lions quickly bumped the lead to 48-42 with three minutes left. But Willadsen left for good with her fifth foul after an offensive foul with 2:23 to play

In the final 2:23 Red Mountain turned the ball over on a 10-second violation, a 5-second violation and had an inbounds pass stolen at its end by Coggins that resulted in a free throw.

"It was night and day when we had Mariah in there," Appel said. "This was a tough one to lose. It was kind of similar to how we lost a close game to Highland earlier. We have to get that corrected if we're going to prove we can play and win these games against good teams."