The Williamsburg Lady Wildcats clinched their fifth straight league title by defeating Georgetown 54-30 on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. Williamsburg shared the first championship with Bethel-Tate, but the last four have been won outright.

Three years ago, Williamsburg High School’s girls basketball team won the program’s first-ever outright league title.

Now they have four.

Williamsburg defeated Georgetown 54-30 on Tuesday, February 2, improving to 13-2 overall and 10-0 in the Southern Buckeye Athletic and Academic Conference’s National Division.

The win gives Williamsburg a fifth straight league crown. The Lady Wildcats shared the championship with Bethel-Tate in 2017.

“It feels really good,” Head coach Mike Madsen said. “It’s about the kids and the kids that we’ve had for the past five years. How hard they work, how well they play together.”

All aspects of Williamsburg’s game clicked against Georgetown. The Lady Wildcats led 22-6 at one point in the first quarter and 27-13 at halftime.

“Georgetown made a couple runs on us,” Madsen said. “They got back in the ballgame. The girls just calmed themselves down, and did what we do, which is play together and play well together.”

They held the Lady G-Men to just 17 points in the second half while scoring 27 of their own to put the game away.

Madi Ogden led all scorers with 18 points. Kiana Dauwe scored 11 points, while Kirstyn Thomas tallied 10 points.

Paige Fisher scored six points for the Lady Wildcats. At halftime, Fisher was honored for breaking the school’s all-time rebounding record. As of this writing, she has grabbed 945 rebounds in her career, though final stats for the Georgetown game were not available at press time.

Fisher broke the record against Bethel-Tate on January 19, but the Lady Wildcats went the entire month of January without a home game.

“We’ve been away for so long,” Madsen said. “It was nice to do it…I really enjoyed tonight for the kids because the players that we have worked so hard. The seniors that we have worked so hard. It’s a special group of girls, a special group of players.”

Georgetown was led by Torie Utter, who scored 16 points. Maddi Benjamin tallied eight points, with Grace Burrows adding six.

“That’s what good teams do,” Madsen said. “They just make sure that they don’t allow a team to get that big roll to get back in the game. Ogden played phenomenal defense tonight. Utter scored a lot of points, but in the end, Madi frustrated her. She might have had a lot of points, but Madi frustrated her.”

To date, the Lady Wildcats’ senior class has posted a 46-0 record in league play with four league championships. Williamsburg’s last league loss came on Thursday, January 12, 2017 against Bethel-Tate. In addition to Ogden and Fisher, Dauwe, Thomas and Katie Ervin are all set to graduate in the spring.

The Lady Wildcats wrap up league play with a game against Blanchester on Thursday, February 4. They also face CNE on Saturday, February 6.

Williamsburg will open the sectional tournament against No. 15 Deer Park on Saturday, February 13 at 10 a.m. The No 2. Lady Wildcats would face No. 14 Blanchester at Fairfield High School with a win.