 Well another year in another section title and trip to state for Grand Rapids girls basketball the Thunder Hawks are red hot winning their last seven and ready to roll down south. After their impressive 20 point win Thursday over Chisago Lakes, Grand Rapids is heading back to state for the third straight season. I think on our part of show is determination and for us to work as hard as we can and we're just been practicing so hard here. You know you put in all this work all season and you finally get the the glory of it at the end of the season so we we really wanted it this year we want to go far and they put themselves in that position playing their best ball of the season winning seven straight by an average 22 points score nearly 80 a contest. Just as a team we've all kind came together and we've been playing so well and I'm so happy to be a part of the team right now because we're not in a slump right now I mean we're at the top of our game and I don't think anything could tear us apart right now and even though the Thunder Hawks are unseeded and drew number three holy angels in the quarterfinals it doesn't faze them one bit. The way that the girls are playing now with confidence it seems like a whole different level that we're at you know like three years ago we were just happy to be there you know we hadn't gotten in for a very long time last year it was more of you know we need to accomplish some things this year there are lots of girls coming back to the state that were in that team last year they know what it takes and while the talk might be stopping the star star future Arkansas Razorback Destiny Oberg they feel like they can match them offensively step-for-step teams that play us sometimes have a really difficult time defending us if they put a lot of coverage on heaven or take heaven and Hannah both the way we have other girls on the floor that can do just as much scoring as those two girls when it all comes down to it the key is doing what they've done all season long sticking together and keeping our energy up it's helped us out in the long run I mean if we're ecstatic and we're just having fun out there then everything comes together and it just leads us to victory here's a look at the entire class 3a bracket Grand Rapids takes on Academy of holy angels Wednesday at the barn 4 p.m. taping if you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS