![Pages in a scrapbook detail the Columbia Falls girls basketball state championship season of 1983. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/07/27/0731_SPO_DIL_Columbia_Falls_girls_hoops_scrapbook_4_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
Pages in a scrapbook detail the Columbia Falls girls basketball state championship season of 1983. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
July 27, 2022
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The Kats of '83
Players recall landmark girls basketball title
In the end Columbia Falls played AA starting in 1980-81, and if others were worried about having the classification’s lowest enrollment (a reported 725 in 1980), well, let’s just say the girls were ready.