 Outside of the state tournament, the Monaga Girls basketball team is 59-1 over the past two seasons. But last year, a first-round loss, today they tried to get their first-ever win at the state tournament as they took on bold. Monaga battling through injuries all year long to get here. First half, Monaga kicks it in the corner where Alyssa Peterson hits the triple to give the Braves an early 5-0 lead. Later in the first, Peterson makes a great cross-court pass to Sierra Alph. She fakes the pass, then hits the shot to give Monaga a 10-point advantage. Early in the second, Monaga's lead was cut to 7 when Anika Ajo gets the tough and won. She would make the free throw to put the Braves up by 10. Later in the second, Peterson finds Alph. She hits another 3 to put the Braves up by 19. Alph leads all scores with 21 and 5-3 pointers. Monaga tops bold 65-54 and Coach Poulu couldn't be more proud of his seniors that combined 4 39 points. We have elite senior class and we had elite senior leadership and if you want to win big playoff games you need senior leadership and you look to my left, you look to my right we've got great senior leadership right here I'm going to be more proud. We had lots of ball pressure and then our post down low we're just working hard pushing back. Our press I mean was a difference in the game I mean we went to it early and we went to adopt in the second half and I think we really sped them up and we got a few key turnovers and really pushed the game from 9-10 points up until 20 and the lights didn't affect us as much we were just ready to go and we were confident. And the Braves take on Goodhue tomorrow afternoon with a trip to the title game on the line. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.