PEABODY ? If you’re with the Lynn Classical High boys basketball team, you’re just glad you made it out of Peabody with your unbeaten record intact.If you’re the Tanners, you felt like you got kicked in the stomach.The Rams (4-0) escaped with a 63-62 win, Friday night, at Peabody High, in a game the featured plenty of controversy in the final minute.Classical, which led by eight with two minutes left in the game, saw the Tanners (1-3) score six straight points and then get back the ball on a halfcourt violation by Classical with 43 seconds remaining.Peabody’s Dan Mello took a 10-foot runner from the right of the lane, and as the shot caromed off the backboard, it appeared as though Classical’s Jarell Byrd may have touched the ball as it was coming down and then the glass.No goaltending was called, and the Rams quickly moved the ball down to the other end of the floor, where Peabody’s Mark Linehan and Classical’s Tony Johnson collided.Peabody coach Chris Mastrangelo wanted a charge, but Linehan was called for a blocking foul, and Johnson made one of two free throws to put the Rams ahead by three points with 28.8 seconds left.After a timeout, Mello got an open shot from the top of the key. The ball hit the back iron, caromed to the front of the rim and hung for a split-second before it rolled out.Peabody’s Max Steinberger put back the rebound to make the score 63-62, but Classical played keep-away for the final 10 seconds.”All I’m going to say is the kids put themselves in a position to win the game in the last two-and-a-half minutes,” said Mastrangelo, who was visibly upset immediately after the game but much calmer about 10 minutes later.”They (the Tanners) did everything they could to win this game,” Mastrangelo added. “When we were down by (eight) in the last two minutes, it could have been lights out, but they hung in there.”Classical coach Tom Grassa also refused to comment on the officiating, keeping with what he said was his policy (Grassa also refused to comment about the officiating in last year’s state tournament when some questionable calls went against the Rams).”Well, we know how to make things interesting,” Grassa said. “Peabody did a real nice job with our pressure and that number 21 (Peabody’s Kevin Skop, who scored a game-high 26 points) hit some big shots.”Quivari Jackson led the Rams with 16 points, while Byrd added 13 despite foul trouble and Cam Smith chipped in with 11. In addition to Skop, Mello (13 points) and Steinberger (12) also scored in double figures for Peabody.The Tanners led by as many as seven points in a first quarter that featured seven points from Mello and uneven play by Classical, which seemed to have trouble with the floor conditions.After the court was swept in the break between the first two periods, the Rams went on an 8-0 run sparked by Byrd to open the second period and took a 17-14 lead.Byrd picked up his second foul with 4:27 left in the second period and sat out the remainder of the half, however, and Skop hit a couple of 3-pointers to give the Tanners a 30-29 lead at the intermission.The Rams took back the lead (for good, as it turned out) when Jackson scored three straight buckets, two after Classical’s defense forced turnovers and the third on a pretty feed from Smith.A hoop from the left box by Steinberger and a 15-footer by Skop helped close the Rams’ lead to one point (47-46) a the end of the third quarter.Skop kept the Tanners in the game by scoring eight straight points for his team over an 8-minute span in the fourth quarter, but Classical kept pace with a couple of hoops by Johnson.Jackson made another steal and layup and nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing to give the Rams their largest lead of the game at 62-54.”We got some good contributions from the kids who came off the bench tonight ? Luis Ayala, Sebastian Bejin and Chad Quintana,” Grassa said. “And we got a nice game out of Tony Johnson. We needed everyone, since Peabody played a very good ballgame.”