JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — A controversial ending to Game 3 on Wednesday put the Jamestown Jackals in position to clinch their Basketball Super League semifinal series Friday night at Jamestown Community College.

The Sudbury Five wanted to go out on their own terms.

Duane Notice scored 26 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and handed out seven assists, while JD Miller had 23 points and nine rebounds as the top-seeded Five beat the fourth-seeded Jackals 103-92 at the Physical Education Complex to even their best-of-five series 2-2.

“As much as it hurts, that is sports. We hated it,” Sudbury head coach Logan Stutz said about the ending to Game 3. “It took us about 24 hours to turn the page, but once we turned the page we all felt it. We said ‘Let’s get back to Sudbury, let’s get this back on our home court.’ That’s what the job was today.”

Now a championship series berth will be on the line at 4 p.m. Sunday back at Sudbury Community Arena where the Five went 12-3 this season and Jamestown lost all three games it played there during the regular season.

“They’re a very good team, especially in this gym,” Stutz said of the Jackals. “They are a very good team anywhere.”

Jamestown, which trailed for most of the opening three quarters Friday, tied the game at 74-all and 76-all on buckets from Tyshon Pickett, who led the Jackals with 22 points on 9-of-14 shooting.

But Sudbury answered with a 9-0 run that included a pair of free throws and a basket from Jermaine Haley as well as a 3-pointer and a basket from Notice.

“It’s hard to keep my guys focused when the refs take the air out of the basketball,” Jamestown head coach Raheem “Radio” Singleton said. “There were some tough calls after they were letting us play. There was no consistency.”

After Jamestown’s Devante Jamison hit a 3-pointer to stem the tide, the Five went on another 12-4 run that included Jelani Simmons bursting through the gut of the Jackals defense before catching a pass from Diego Bernard for a dunk to beat the shot clock and Notice hitting another 3-pointer.

“We needed Duane, we needed Jelani, we needed everyone tonight,” Stutz said. “It was nice to see Duane have a bounceback game because he’s our captain. We all had his back. I’m glad he came out and helped the team today.”

Down 14 with just under three minutes remaining, Jamestown never threatened again.

“Part of it is on our guys not competing at the level that they needed to,” Singleton said. “We let them get some easy ones so that when they did miss, the refs gave them the benefit of the doubt.”

Playing without Ja’myrin Jackson, the league’s leading scorer, and Charlie Marquardt, the league’s leading 3-point shooter, Sudbury led by as many as 18 midway through the second quarter, thanks in large part to Simmons, who came off the bench 11 first-half points, including three 3-pointers.

“It was all about their focus and their mindset. It was there tonight,” Stutz said. “We made a lot of mistakes, but they were energy mistakes, at least we had the energy.”

The Jackals were 8 of 21 from the field in the first quarter and not much better in the second, when they were 8 of 19. Jamestown also went just 2 of 11 from 3-point range while the Five were 7 of 16 from deep in the first half.

“We just didn’t play like ourselves. We didn’t have our defensive focus on,” Singleton said. “We were out there trying to trade buckets and that’s not a team you can trade buckets with.”

The Jackals began to find their way in the third quarter when they outscored Sudbury 25-16. Seven Jamestown players scored in the period, led by Derrick Colter with 7 points.

Trailing by three entering the final 12 minutes, Deon Stroud scored 25 seconds into the quarter to make it a one-point game and Pickett finally tied it with 9:02 remaining, the first time the score was even since it was 10-10 at the 5:49 mark of the first quarter.

“We had to make a couple of adjustments and spread the ball out a little bit more. … We created space a little bit more and tried to get downhill attacks,” Stutz said. “Once we took care of the ball, it helped us in the fourth quarter.”

The Jackals will have to put together a full 48 minutes Sunday if they hope to extend their season and reach the best-of-five championship series in their first year in the Basketball Super League.

“We know we can win anywhere, it just depends on our guys’ mindset,” said Singleton, whose team split the first two games of the series in Sudbury. “Are we willing to do what is necessary or are we going to go out there feeling sorry for ourselves?”

NOTES: Jamestown shot 37 of 84 (44%) from the field, including 4 of 27 (14.8%) from 3-point range, and turned the ball over 11 times. … Sudbury shot 36 of 66 (54.5%) from the field, including 10 of 27 (37%) from 3-point range, and turned the ball over 16 times. … The second-seeded Windsor Express lead the third-seeded KW Titans 2-1 in the other semifinal series. Game 4 of that series is Sunday at 2 p.m. in Kitchener, Ontario.

SUDBURY (103)

Bernard 4-8 3-3 11, Haley 2-4 2-2 7, Notice 7-15 9-11 26, Miller 9-13 4-10 23, Hurt 1-3 1-1 3, Simmons 7-10 0-0 18, Djonkam 1-1 0-0 2, Billinger 5-11 2-2 13, Olden 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-66 21-29 103.

JAMESTOWN (92)

Beckford 5-13 0-0 10, Colter 8-20 2-3 21, Duvall 0-0 0-0 0, Collier 1-2 0-0 2, Pickett 9-14 4-4 22, Price 3-6 0-0 6, Gracey 1-2 2-4 4, Stroud 3-9 2-3 8, Jamison 6-11 4-5 17, Hinson 0-4 0-0 0, Mulamba 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 37-84 14-19 92.

Sudbury 25 28 16 34 — 103

Jamestown 17 24 25 26 — 92

3-point goals–Sudbury 10-27 (Bernard 0-2, Haley 1-1, Notice 3-8, Miller 1-4, Hurt 0-1, Simmons 4-6, Billinger 1-4, Olden 0-1), Jamestown 4-27 (Beckford 0-2, Colter 3-12, Collier 0-1, Price 0-1, Gracey 0-1, Stroud 0-3, Jamison 1-5, Hinson 0-2). Total rebounds–Sudbury 37 (Notice 11), Jamestown 39 (Beckford 9). Assists–Sudbury 18 (Notice 7), Jamestown 17 (Pickett 4, Jamison 4). Total fouls–Sudbury 20, Jamestown 23.