WINDSOR — There are so many championship banners draped on the wall of Windsor High’s gym that the excess ones have begun to spill off the wall and onto the mezzanine that surrounds the court.

This year’s girls basketball team may well force them to make space for one more.

The Yellowjackets announced their state championship intentions on Saturday and got a measure of revenge with a 75-22 beatdown of visiting Thetford that wasn’t even as close as the score suggested.

For the Windsor seniors, beating Thetford feels a bit sweeter knowing the result of last year’s game on the same court. Thetford stunned Windsor 58-53 in overtime in what is the senior class’ only home loss in VPA competition of their careers.

Windsor, which improved to 4-0 on the year, led 30-0 after the first quarter and 44-2 at halftime before taking its foot off the gas to cruise to the final margin of victory.

“Good transition, great defense, moving the ball around and getting easy looks,” Windsor head coach Kabray Rockwood said of the team’s dominant first half performance.

Windsor’s mix of defensive looks flummoxed the Panthers, employing both a man-to-man press and a 2-2-1 zone press as well as a 1-3-1 half-court trap to great effect. Thetford turned the ball over on five of its first six possessions and only grew worse from there, finishing the first half with well over 25 turnovers as Windsor built a huge advantage.

Sophia Rockwood paced the Jacks with 22 points, followed by Audrey Rupp with 15. The leaders of a senior class that has never seen a season stop short of the Barre Auditorium showed their veteran skill against a young Thetford team that couldn’t contain them.

“The last time we lost in this gym, it was Thetford. Last 10 years, the standard, it’s been Thetford. We had to get it done today, and we did,” said Kabray Rockwood.

Thetford fell to Windsor in the 2023 state title game and looked on a collision course for a rematch in 2024 before a swath of injuries derailed the team’s goals. This year, the Panthers are 2-2, but they have dropped both games by uncompetitive margins to title contenders Windsor and White River Valley.

Windsor is rolling once again after losing just one starter from its 2024 team and will look to stay perfect against one of the tougher schedules in the division. The Jacks play a pair of Division I schools (Brattleboro, Mount Anthony) in Southern Vermont League action plus a home-and-home matchup with Division IV powerhouse West Rutland and a trip to New Hampshire neighbor Newport.

“Defensively, we have to be tougher, and we have to get more from our bench in terms of viable minutes,” said Kabray Rockwood of what needed to be improved the rest of the way.

Windsor host Lake Region on Jan. 7. Thetford return home to play Randolph on the same date.