It was the stuff dreams are made of.

Bottom of the last inning, two outs, score tied, a walk-off home run to win the game as the crowd goes wild.

Only for Notre Dame High School junior Isaiah Crow, it wasn’t a dream.

It was reality.

Crow’s two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted Class 1A’s eighth-ranked Nikes to a 6-4 victory over crosstown rival Burlington on Saturday night at Winegard Field.

Moments after the game-winning hit, the sky opened up in a downpour, creating a rainbow over the right-field fence at Winegard Field.

Indeed, Crow and the Nikes had found their pot of gold.

“We’ve always come back, always pushed through everything,” said Crow, who called his two-run blast the biggest hit of his life. “We knew coming in it was going to be a good game. Once we were down, 4-2, we just stepped up and did what we had to do and produced a 6-4 win.”

“I call them the never-say-die kids because they never give up,” Notre Dame coach Chris Chiprez said. “Honestly, I’m not surprised that happened. They have been pretty consistent all year long with that.

“Our guys don’t get rattled very easy. It’s been one of those things where we have been down in the past and they battle back and they find a way to win.”

Notre Dame (23-6) was staring at a 4-2 deficit heading into the bottom of the seventh inning.

But the Nikes have been in this position before and prevailed.

“Just go up there, do your job, don’t try to do too much and hit the ball,” Notre Dame junior catcher Logan Brent said of Chiprez’s advice before the inning.

Spencer Brent, whose three-run hit on Friday helped the Nikes down Van Buren County to win the SEI Superconference South Division, led off the seventh with a double off relief pitcher Drake Timmerman.

Caden Schwenker followed with a single to put runners at the corners.

Logan Brent, who has come up clutch on several occasions this season, connected on a double to the gap in left-center field. Spencer Brent and Schwenker raced home to knot the game at 4.

“It felt pretty good coming up big for my team. We’re a never-say-die team. We always battle through in every situation. We’re a family out there. I’m happy to help my brothers,” Brent said. “I went up there sitting fastball and looking for the opportunity to help my team. I knew after he got one strike on me he wasn’t going to give me another fastball like that. I looked for the curveball, kept my weight back and tried to do my job.”

Brent advanced to third on a perfectly-placed bunt by Eli Oleson.

Chiprez then put on a squeeze play, but Dylan Kipp missed the pitch and Brent was thrown out in a rundown for the second out.

But this group of Nikes refuses to lose.

“That’s one of those things I’m most proud of the most with them is they have matured a great amount over the last year,” Chiprez said. “I think that has a lot to do with the success we’re having. Last year at that time we would have folded.”

Kipp drew a walk, setting the stage for Crow.

“They ended up trying that suicide squeeze that didn’t work and then we walk the next guy and give them an extra at bat,” BHS coach Griffin Dean said.

Crow drove the first pitch he saw over the left-center field fence and the celebration was on.

“As soon as I hit it I knew it was gone,” Crow said. “The other batters that came in were saying it’s right there. He’s going to throw it to you.

“I was looking first pitch fastball. I saw it and put a good swing on it.”

BHS (14-13) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Alex Fawcett drew a lead-off walk and scored on an infield single by Josh Zahner.

The Nikes plated two runs in the fifth to take a 2-1 lead.

Spencer Brent doubled in Maddox Diewold, and Brent trotted home on a single by Schwenker.

The Grayhounds knotted the game at 2 on a run-scoring double by Moise Cordero, which drove in Evan Hecox in the sixth.

“We had scoring opportunities in the second, third and fourth and couldn’t capitalize,” Dean said. “That came back to bite us.”

BHS opened a 4-2 lead in the seventh on a two-run double by Noah Nixon, which drove in courtesy runner Ian Mason and Zahner.

That set the stage for the Nikes’ dramatic walk-off win.

“Obviously, crosstown rivals, it doesn’t take much to get you excited to play,” Chiprez said.

“I remember playing back in 1988-89, my first year, against them.

“It was just one of those things where you were ready to go. It didn’t matter what happened the night before or whatever. You were just ready to go.”