They’ll need to find some more space on the walls of Windsor High School’s gym. The Yellowjacket girls are champions again.

One year after seeing its chance for a third consecutive VPA Division II title denied, second-seeded Windsor returned to the Barre Auditorium with a vengeance and outlasted two comeback attempts from top-seeded Oxbow to win, 48-45, on Saturday night and take its third state championship in four years.

Windsor saw a 13-point lead at halftime shrink to just two as Oxbow roared back in the third quarter but regained the advantage with a pair of clutch 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter. After Oxbow rallied down the stretch, cutting the lead to just three with 70 seconds to go, Windsor held the Olympians scoreless until a consolation layup just before the buzzer and sank two clutch free throws to close out the victory.

The Olympians, looking to extend their lead in the history books with a state-best 14th girls basketball title and their first since 2012, were hampered by foul trouble and turnovers all night and missed several key layups as Windsor faltered at the free-throw line.

For Windsor, a pair of guards who’d never seen a season end short of the state championship game led the way. Sophia Rockwood poured in 23 points, including 15 points in the second quarter, to lead all scorers, and Audrey Rupp tacked on six points and four assists while leading the way for Windsor’s full-court defense.

Oxbow’s backcourt duo of Braylee Phelps and Maggi Ellsworth led the way for Oxbow with 12 and 11 points, respectively. And senior center Libby Swift scored nine points and hauled in 19 rebounds even while missing much of the first half due to foul trouble.

The formula that propelled Oxbow to its best record since 2003 — a dynamic backcourt duo backed by a frontcourt with uncommon size for a Division III school — faltered in the final with Swift and Ellsworth both missing significant time due to early fouls that kept them off the floor.

Windsor took advantage of seven Oxbow turnovers to lead 14-6 after a quarter, then broke the game open in the second on the strength of Sophia Rockwood. The senior scored 15 of Windsor’s 17 points in the period, sinking three 3-pointers along the way, and put together a personal 7-0 run capped with a pull-up trifecta just before the half to open up Windsor’s largest lead of the night at the time.

With Swift re-entering the game, Oxbow muscled its way back into the contest on the offensive glass, surging with a 7-1 run in the opening two minutes to bring the game back to manageable terms as the Windsor offense faltered.

A Swift putback with 40 seconds to go in the third cut the deficit to just three points, and while she missed the chance to cut reduce the gap to just a point with two free throws, Swift sank one of two to make it a one-possession affair headed to the final stretch at the Aud.

Windsor, though, would not be denied in the clutch.

Junior guard Cassie Clark, who hadn’t scored all night but served as a bit of an X-factor for the Jacks, drilled back-to-back 3-pointers from nearly the same spot in the left corner to retake an eight-point advantage. Rockwood added after an Oxbow hoop a steal-and-score to put Windsor back up by eight.

Oxbow rallied yet again, with Abby Longto sinking a 3-pointer to put the game back within two scores with four minutes to go and Ellsworth slashing for a layup to make it a three-point game. But Windsor — which was 9-for-26 as a team from the stripe on the night — finally found the clutch free-throw shooting it’d been missing.

Kemari Wildgoose made two of four attempts in the closing minute and the Windsor defense held until it didn’t need to, with Ellsworth’s layup coming just before the buzzer and another Windsor celebration.

Windsor graduates three key senior starters in Rupp, Rockwood and Brianna Barton but will look to return for a fourth title in five years with a still-deep team led by Rockwood’s younger sister Amelia, a freshman guard.

Oxbow loses Ellsworth, who stepped into a leadership role after returning from an ACL injury, and Swift, but the Olympians keep the rest of a team that improved by nine wins from a year before.