ASHWAUBENON –The Kimberly Papermakers girls’ basketball team won the Division 1 state championship Saturday with a 47-26 win over Muskego at the Resch Center.
The Papermakers now have won five state titles.
Top-seeded Kimberly qualified for the State Tournament for the 12th time and for the first time since 2019.
The Papermakers made five appearances in the 1980s and four in the 1990s.
Kimberly won the Class A championship in 1987 and the Class B title in 1989. They added Division 2 titles in 1996 and 1998. They also finished runner-up in Class A in 1982 and in Division 2 in 1997.
They are the champions of the Fox Valley Association this season, and they are the representatives from the Hartford Sectional with a 48-47 overtime win over Pewaukee, which was the Division 2 champion last season.
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