Branton McCrary played with a bandaged right hand in the championship game of the Jammin' for Jackets Tournament, but the injury did little to impair his effort Saturday night.

McCrary, a 6-1 senior point guard, scored 23 points, grabbed 4 rebounds and came up with 6 steals as the Mills Comets held off Little Rock Parkview 60-57 at Little Rock Hall's Cirks Arena.

"I'm fine," said McCrary, who suffered the injury in Friday's semifinal victory over Hall. "It didn't bother me at all."

McCrary scored a combined 49 points in his past three games and was selected as the tournament's MVP.

Mills (5-3) has won five consecutive games after starting the season with three consecutive losses.

Trailing 59-57 with seven seconds remaining, Parkview had the ball in the front court but sophomore Madison Peaster took advantage of a high pass to collect a steal. He hit 1 of 2 free throws with 3.2 seconds left to set the final score.

"Parkview's kids played tough. Our guys played tough," Mills Coach Raymond Cooper said. "We just made one or two more plays."

Saturday's game featured 14 lead changes and was tied five times.

Both teams struggled from the free-throw line. Parkview was only 8 of 19 from the line. Mills was 16 of 29, but only 5 of 10 in the final 4:04.

"Our guys hung in there, but I got to give [Mills] credit. They played hard," Parkview Coach Al Flanigan said. "But we sort of beat ourselves. When you're 8-of-20 something from the free-throw line, you can't beat anyone."

Parkview (6-2) got plenty of offense from its two big seniors -- Allen Flanigan and Airion Simmons. Allen Flanigan scored a game-high 25 points. He drilled a 30-footer at the end of the first half but was short on a similar effort on the game's final shot. Simmons scored 13 points, grabbed 14 rebounds, handed out 3 assists and blocked 3 shots, but the 6-5 post player picked up his fifth foul with 4:22 to play and Mills holding a 54-53 lead.

"That was real big," McCrary said. "When he fouled out, they didn't have any more big men. That's when we had to attack the goal."

Mills scored its final six points from the free-throw line.

"We can't play without Allen and Simmons," Coach Flanigan said. "We got to have them on the floor."

Allen Flanigan's first-half buzzer beater gave Parkview a 33-32 lead. The Patriots then scored the first six points of the second half to take their largest lead at 39-32 with 14:10 remaining. Jammin' for Jackets utilized two 16-minutes halves each game.

Mills scored 11 of the next 13 points to take a 43-41 advantage with 11:03 left.

"I substituted," Cooper said when asked what he did to get the Comets back into the contest. "We've got a lot of young kids who have never been in this environment before, and we just were on our heels. We were just trying to find someone who could give us some energy. Josh Watson, the smallest guy on the court, got in and I think his energy spurred everybody else."

"They've got more players," Coach Flanigan said. "They're bench is a little stronger than mine. We've got four ninth-graders and a couple of sophomores. Sometimes I walk down the bench, look at them and just walk right back."

Senior Orion Virden added 15 points for the Comets, while senior 6-6 post player Kevin Cross added 12 points and 6 rebounds.

Ryan Gordon added 12 points for Parkview.