 The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. After losing in the section finals each of the past three years, the Crosby-Irenton boys basketball team finally got over the hump and is headed to state after beating last year's section champ, Esco. Clayton Castle caught up with the Rangers today at their final practice before heading down to Minneapolis. Ask any basketball coach and they'll tell you it's not easy to go 28 and let alone make it to the state tournament in Minneapolis. But for the Crosby-Irenton Rangers they did just that after beating last year's section champion Esco. We knew we'd have to go through Esco. They had won the section tournament four years in a row and they were the favorite this year but we weren't that far behind and fortunately we played well enough to secure the victory. The Rangers are riding an eight game win streak going into tomorrow night's state quarter final match up against Breckenridge and the guys are pretty excited to have gotten to this point. Just ask seniors Jack Siljan and Noah Gendorf who have been to the sectional finals the past three years but are making their first trip to Minneapolis. It's incredible. Our team everybody is stepped up when the lights are shining and after a couple years coming up short it's it feels really great to finally come out on top. Definitely a really good feeling after losing section finals the past two years and to win in the fashion that we did it was it was a really good feeling for us. Coach Galevich says in order to win tomorrow night his team will have to stay focused and just keep doing what they've done all season. We got to get scoring inside as well as from the perimeter defensively I think we've been pretty good all year we our teams have averaged 46 points against us so it all revolves around our team effort. Galevich also says he's not the least bit surprised his team is headed to state. I'm really happy for our guys they've been an outstanding group of guys to coach just been a joy all 13 of them the whole year especially led by four seniors. Now the Rangers will head down to Minneapolis tomorrow and take on Breckenridge at eight o'clock at Williams Arena from Crosby Ironson High School Clayton Castle Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.