Brandon Martin isn’t greedy. One catch will do just fine for the Scottsdale Chaparral wide receiver, as long as the Firebirds win.

SLIDESHOW: Scottsdale Chaparral vs. Vail Cienega

And when the catch comes in the end zone with 3.9 seconds left to win the game, capping an improbable comeback? Even better.

Martin caught a 32-yard lob from quarterback Spencer Stone to finish off a riveting final minute of play as Chaparral edged Vail Cienega 23-20 at Chaparral on Friday night.

The Firebirds drove 56 yards in four plays in the final 27.8 seconds for the win.

“I got it when it counted,” Martin said.

Both teams scored touchdowns in the final minute as emotions ran the gamut on both sidelines.

“I don’t even know what to say,” Chapparal coach Charlie Ragle said.

Chaparral could have locked things up with 46 seconds left and a 16-14 lead, but couldn’t convert a third-and-1. Cienega got the ball on its own 27-yard line with 42.6 seconds remaining, and Seth Mejias-Brean wasted no time, finding Justin McMurray for a 73-yard touchdown pass on the very first play from scrimmage.

“That was an amazing throw by (Mejias-Brean), and I just couldn’t understand why our defense wasn’t back there,” Stone said. “But we knew we had 32 seconds to score, and that’s what you worry about then. You can’t worry about what just happened.”

The Firebirds didn’t quit, as Stone found tight end Tyler Williams on a 24-yard pass to get into Bobcats territory with 10 seconds left.

He then noticed the 6-foot-4 Martin against a smaller cornerback, and threw a lob to the corner of the end zone. Martin juked toward the sideline then cut back inside, losing his defender and making the catch with 3.9 seconds to play.

“It seemed like (the ball) was floating up there forever,” Stone said. “You just throw it up and let your playmaker make a play.”

Stone was 19-for-31 for 261 yards and two touchdowns, with nearly 200 of those yards coming in the second half, when Chaparral spread out the offense.

Mejias-Brean finished with 267 yards passing and three touchdowns, but a desperation heave as time expired fell short of the end zone.

“Even when we scored and there was just three seconds left, I wasn’t sure the game was over,” Ragle said.

“I told my offensive line coach, 'This thing ain’t over until I hear that dang buzzer go off.’ ”

The lead changed hands seven times and neither team scored more than once in a row.