Every Sunday night, NYPD officers John Desiderio, Giovanni Cucuzza and Joseph Glorioso go bowling together.

The cops who all work out of the 61st Precinct in Brooklyn are teammates in a league at Rabs Country Lanes on Staten Island.

“We are very competitive,” said Giovanni Cucuzza, an NYPD officer.

But this past Sunday, they had to show a different kind of teamwork when a bowler on another team fell over gasping for breath.

“We were about 3 or 4 lanes down so when we noticed him fall we all ran over and it was a crowd forming at that point people in the lane right next to him. By the time we got there he had slight breaths he was gasping we got him down to the floor and then he had no pulse at all,” said Joseph Glorioso.

Desiderio, who's been with the NYPD for 11 years began doing chest compressions — as Glorioso checked the man's vital signs.

Cucuzza says he knew exactly where the defibrillator was, ran to get it, and gave the man one shock.

The heart attack victim soon became responsive, and was taken to a nearby hospital. He's expected to be okay.

“I definitely did feel like I needed to rise up and serve. Because this is exactly what I signed up to do,” said Cucuzza.

The NYPD’s chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison summoned the three cops to Police Headquarters where he thanked them for saving the man’s life.

"These guys were off-duty. They saw someone going through a very difficult time and jumped into action. And that's the training we provide for all of our officers that being on or off-duty, we're here to save lives and protect people, help people,” said Chief Harrison.

”it’s exhilarating when it works. Just to know that he gets to spend more time with his family; I’m grateful for that,” said Desiderio.

The officers say they’ve only been bowling in this league for about a month and they say once they knew the man was going to be ok, they went back to their game. Ironically, one of the officers says it was his best game ever.