COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Kettering Archbishop Alter beat Toledo Rogers by one point earlier this season. So when the Knights defeated Rogers 57-42 in the Division II title game Saturday at Ohio State’s Value City Arena, it probably looked easier to outsiders.

“No. It felt close,” Alter co-coach Christina Hart said.

That’s because Rogers (24-6) battled all the way to the bitter end despite losing Akienreh Johnson, an Associated Press co-player of the year in Division II, to an injury before the state tournament began.

“We’ve got to play with who we have,” Rogers coach Lamar Smith said. “The other girls have a job to do.”

Emma Bockrath, one of four Alter seniors, had 21 points as the top-ranked Knights finished undefeated (30-0) and avenged a loss to Millersburg West Holmes in the 2014 season that ruined a perfect season.

“Our whole team wanted to get it done for us,” she said.

Alter co-coach Kendal Peck carried into the postgame news conference a preseason article with a headline that read, “Alter tries to rebound from 29-1 season.”

“That’s the expectations on us,” he said. “If we go 58-2 in two years, people will remember the two.”

Alter made sure that didn’t happen.

The Knights turned around a four-point deficit the final 2:47 of the first half with a 9-0 run to take a 27-22 lead, capped by a Bockrath layup just before the buzzer.

“That was a big basket at the end of the half,” Peck said. “We went into the locker room feeling like we were world beaters. We came out in the third quarter and kept that momentum.”

Maddie Bazelak had eight points in the third when Alter took a 43-34 advantage to the fourth quarter.

Bazelak had 12 points and Braxtin Miller added 11.

Rogers, in its first title game appearance, was led by Sydney Petty with 11 points and eight rebounds.