DENVER | In good times or bad times, the Grandview girls basketball team had the mantra of “What’s next?” all season long.
The final answer to that question is: celebrate.
The top-seeded Wolves completed a quest to win the Class 6A state championship after an unusually early postseason exit last year with a thorough 61-39 victory over No. 7 Legend Saturday afternoon at the Denver Coliseum.
Grandview (25-3) bounced back from its only loss to a Colorado team (to last season’s tate champion, Valor Christian, back on Jan. 4) and won its last 19 games of the season to claim the program’s fifth all-time state championship and third in the past four seasons. This title added to back-to-back titles won in 2017 and 2018 and 2022 and 2023 for what has become the state’s premier program.
Senior Sienna Betts scored a game-high 21 points, senior Deija Roberson added 15 and sophomore Ava Chang 10, while the Wolves held high-scoring Legend (22-6) to a total that matched its season low in points.
Recently crowned Colorado’s Gatorade Player of the Year for a third straight season, Betts again showed up in the championship game. She had 13 points in the opening two quarters and her presence deterred the Titans in the paint, while the rest of the lineup took turns closing down the 3-point line, where Legend thrives.
Betts finished with 16 rebounds for her 81st career double-double, which puts the UCLA recruit on top of the all-time Colorado High School Activities Association recordbooks in the category. She is also the state’s all-time leading rebounder, boys or girls, and also just passed the 2,000 career points scored milestone.
It was the second win of the season over Legend for Grandview, which took a 60-53 overtime decision back on Jan. 18.
Disappointed with themselves with their performance in a Sweet 16 win over No. 16 Rocky Mountain and Great 8 defeat of No. 8 Denver East, the Wolves got back on track with a quality semifinal win over No. 5 Pine Creek and kept it going against Legend, which came into the game in search of its first all-time state championship.
Note: Grandview improved to 5-1 in its seven trips to the state championship game, with its only loss coming to Cherry Creek in the 2019 final. The rematch between the teams was set in the 2020 championship game, which was wiped out due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at sports@sentinelcolorado.com. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports
2025 CLASS 6A GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
(1) GRANDVIEW 61, (7) LEGEND 39
Score by quarters:
Legend 7 10 11 11 — 39
Grandview 16 17 9 19 — 61
LEGEND (39)
Aislyn Korella 0 0-0 0, Grace Stanley 5 0-0 11, Maley Wilhelm 1 2-3 4, Mason Borcherding 2 0-0 6, Maile Starns 2 2-2 7, Ava Gavi 2 0-0 6, Aubrey Cook 1 1-2 3, Rhya Matoush 1 0-0 2. Totals 14 5-7 39.
GRANDVIEW (61)
Leiava Holliman 1 0-0 2, Ava Chang 4 0-0 10, Deija Roberson 6 3-3 15, Maya Smith 3 1-2 9, Sienna Betts 7 7-10 21, Aliya Zitek 0 2-2 2, Amya Narducci 1 0-0 2. Totals 22 13-17 61.
3-point field goals — Legend (6): Mason Borcherding 2, Ava Gavi 2, Maile Starns, Grace Stanley. Grandview (4): Ava Chang 2, Maya Smith 2. Total fouls — Legend 20, Grandview 13. Fouled out — None. Technical fouls — None.
