Grant Lannin is starting to make this a habit.

The junior forward led Mountain View to a 68-66 boys basketball home victory over crosstown rival Bend High on Friday night in front of a standing-room-only crowd, hitting his second game-winning shot in four days.

“Maybe it’s the start of something,” joked Lannin, whose last-second putback against Summit on Tuesday gave the Cougars a 45-43 league win.

With the Class 5A Intermountain Conference contest tied 65-65 and just 52 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Lannin rebounded his own shot before making an easy two-footer to give Mountain View a 67-65 lead. Bend’s Connor Scott was fouled 12 seconds later, but the Lava Bear junior made only one of his two free throws and the Cougars clung to a 67-66 lead.

Mountain View freshman Davis Holly added a free throw with 12.6 seconds remaining to make it 68-66. Bend had a chance to tie the game, but David Larson’s jumper from 10 feet away rimmed out.

Lannin’s putback basket capped a career night for the 6-foot-4 post, whose 15 points and 13 rebounds — 11 of which were offensive — keyed Mountain View’s second-half comeback. The Cougars (2-1 5A IMC, 11-2 overall) trailed 39-29 at halftime and did not lead in the second half until midway through the fourth quarter.

“We knew if we crashed the boards and got stops we could get back in the game,” said Lannin, who scored eight of his 15 points in the fourth quarter. “It’s early in the season, but (the win) is big. A lot of our guys haven’t been in a game like the (Bend-Mountain View) Civil War. This gives us confidence and momentum from here on out.”

Mountain View, and Lannin in particular, dominated the smaller Lava Bears on the glass, outrebounding Bend High 34-25 overall and 16-10 on offensive boards.

“They outmuscled us,” Bend coach Don Hayes said. “It was pretty obvious. We didn’t keep them off the glass and paid for it.”

The Lava Bears (0-3 5A IMC, 6-8) nearly stole one from the Cougars at Mountain View after hitting seven of 12 three-pointers in the first half. Bend led 20-14 at the end of the first quarter and was ahead by as many as 12 points in the second period before the Cougars started to rally back. The Bears led 62-61 with just under three minutes left in the fourth quarter and were tied 65-65 with less than a minute remaining before Lannin’s offensive rebound and ensuing basket put Mountain View ahead for good.

Larson, a transfer who was a member of the Cougars’ 2010-11 state tournament team, led Bend with 22 points on eight-of-10 shooting from the field. Scott added 16 points for the Bears and Wyatt Beaumarchais, whose half-court three-pointer at the end of the first quarter sent Bend fans nearly through the roof, ended the game with 13 points and six assists.

Mitch Modin paced Mountain View’s offense with 19 points, John Carroll added 12 points and five rebounds, and Cougar point guard Ments Haugen turned in an 11-point, zero-turnover performance.

“We played most of the game with our three small guards and they ended the night with no turnovers,” Mountain View coach Craig Reid said about Haugen (5-11), Holly (5-9) and Garrett Roth (5-11). “They sometimes present us with some matchup problems (because of their lack of height), but they did an excellent job of handling the ball.”

Both teams are on the road Tuesday for Intermountain Hybrid contests. The Cougars are at Crook County and the Bears play at Ridgeview.

“That was a great high school basketball game,” Hayes said about the first of this season’s three meetings between the two teams. The game featured 10 lead changes — nine in the fourth quarter — six ties, and a capacity crowd that got so loud that the officials’ whistles were inaudible at times.

“I enjoyed it from start to finish,” Hayes added. “Obviously we’d like to be on top and get the ‘W’, but this definitely will propel us.”