Salesian pushed to brink by Clayton Valley in NCS Open final. But survives.

SAN LEANDRO — Time was almost out for Salesian on Saturday night, the section championship it had come to San Leandro’s gymnasium to capture was slipping away.

Someone needed to step up, someone needed to make a stop, someone needed to score.

That someone was Stanford-bound Elias Obenyah.

With less than 30 seconds left in the North Coast Section Open Division championship game and his team trailing Clayton Valley Charter by a point, Obenyah made a steal near midcourt and drove to the basket for a layup.