Brighton Bears turned on the magic in overtime to extend their unbeaten home record and leave their coach calling for more.

Bears, who led by 12 points in the second quarter and again with less than eight minutes of normal time to go, needed the extra five minutes to get past a dogged Chester side.

They did so with a flourish, denying the Jets a single field goal in the last six-and-a-half minutes and conceding just two free throws in overtime for an ultimately comfortable win.

It was Bears' fourth successive home victory against the Jets and one they deserved, but it was in real doubt as they ran out of offensive ideas in a tense finale to the fourth quarter.

Coach Nick Nurse, whose new-look team had another addition on Saturday in Yorick Williams, was delighted to get away with the victory.

He admitted: "We made hard work of it but it's a very good win.

"We're learning. For about 18 minutes of that game we were pretty good.

"You need to make that 30-plus minutes to be very good, then if you can play like that over the full course of the game you're going to be really, really good.

"I think this team is going to be really, really good and I like a lot of the weapons we have."

Williams, who was not sent on until approaching half-time, is certainly a weapon on the evidence of three three-pointers which made him an almost instant crowd favourite.

The first capped one of the best plays of the game after Sullivan Phillips had swatted away Mike Nurse's lay-up at the other end and led a lightning fast break.

When Williams struck from NBA range with 7mins 21secs to play in the fourth quarter, it stretched Bears' lead to 72-60 and the game looked over.

Chester, though, had already wiped out double-digit arrears once with an 11-0 run early in the third quarter and, with defeat looming, they did it again.

Ironically, their revival was led by burly Billy Singleton and sharpshooting Ryan Huntley, both members of the last away team to win at the Triangle when they were with Scottish Rocks last season.

Without three free throw misses in the last 69 seconds from Mike Nurse, who also had a nightmare from three-point range, Bears would have been in real trouble.

Calvin Davis forced in Jets' last field goal of the night with 1mins 33secs to go in the fourth to put them ahead for the third time in the contest at 79-78.

Rico Alderson replied by tipping in Randy Duck's failed three-pointer but Williams then fouled out by impeding Mike Nurse, who hit the first of his two free throws.

Bears still had 44 seconds to force the decision but Duck and Mike Brown missed with threes and, when the impressive Andrew Alleyne came up with the loose ball, Brown saw his attempted buzzer-beating flick roll around the rim and stay out.

It was a cliffhanger finale to the 40 minutes but overtime was more straightforward for the hosts.

Alderson produced a great pass to Kendrick Warren for a dunk, Brown added two from the line and Alderson claimed a put-back.

Warren's dunk made it 88-81 with 45 seconds to play and there was still time for Alderson to throw down a spectacular finish of his own from Duck's behind-the-back pass.

Warren admitted: "It felt like we won that game four times but we kept letting them back in it.

"We got confused on the defensive side and they kept getting a lot of stick-backs.

"We've got to learn to put these sides away but it's early in the season. Once we start gelling we'll be a good team."

Or very, very good if the coach gets his way.

Match facts
Quarter scores: 23-20, 21-15, 18-20, 18-25 (overtime: 11-2).

Bears scorers: Warren 21, Alderson 16, Duck 13, Williams 11, Alleyne 10, Brown 8, Gardiner 6, Siemon 4, Phillips 2.

Jets scorers: McCord 18, Huntley 18, Davis 17, Singleton 16, Nurse 7, Hamilton 5.

Top rebounders: Alderson 18, Warren 15, Alleyne 7; Davis 12, McCord 11.

Most assists: Duck 9, Alderson 7; Nurse 6.

Biggest leads: Bears 44-32 after 19:16, 67-55 after 31:21, 72-60 after 32:39; Chester 3-0 after 1:02.