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The Assumption Royals will play in their seventh WIAA State Championship on Saturday after rolling past Owen-Withee, 61-36, in a Division 5 state semifinal. 

The Royals scored 42 points in the paint and finished with 33 steals with many of those resulting in easy chances. 

Assumption shot 24-for-66 from the field and made 11 of 17 from the free throw line. 

Senior Sarah Shaw tallied a game-high 18 points and 12 steals, along with six assists, and five rebounds.

Senior Anna Schooley and junior Jordyn Jaglinski, a D-II Augustana recruit, added 16 and 10 points, respectively. 

Owen-Withee was led by senior Kendall Weiler, who finished with 11 points. 

Assumption will play Barneveld in the Division 5 state championship game on Saturday at 11:05 a.m. This is the fifth time the teams have met in the title game; they met four consecutive years (2013-2016). 

Barneveld will play for a chance to take another gold ball home with them after topping Lourdes Academy, 41-28, in a Division 5 state semifinal at the Resch Center. 

The Golden Eagles have reached a state title game nine times, winning six WIAA state titles. 

The Golden Eagles led nearly the entire contest, but Lourdes Academy did cut it to a one-point game, 21-20, with 10:26 left before Barneveld went on an 8-0 run, all scored by junior Izabel Durst. Lourdes Academy get any closer than five points the rest of the way. 

Durst finished with a game-high 28 points, shooting 9-for-14 from the floor, 6-for-8 from deep, and 4-for-4 from the charity stripe. She also added eight rebounds and three steals. 

Senior Kaylie Oimoen pulled down a team-high 11 rebounds, and added three assists and two steals for the Golden Eagles. 

WBCA Hall of Fame head coach Jim Myers is the all-time winningest coach in girls' basketball state history with 719 and is second all-time in state titles won with six, trailing only Cuba City's Jeff Pustina, also in WBCA Hall of Fame. 

Lourdes Academy was led by seniors Hailee Bauer and Delaney Ruedinger, who each scored 11 points. 

Barneveld will meet Assumption in the Division 5 state championship game on Saturday at 11:05 a.m. This is the fifth time the teams have met in the title game; they met four consecutive years (2013-2016), splitting those contests. 

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