 After a four overtime victory in the section championship, the Roseau girls hockey team earned themselves a trip to their first state tournament in three years. The Rams drew a tough first matchup as they took on second seeded Blaine in the class 2A quarterfinals. Early on in the first Bengals with a good look at the net, but Keanu Flag makes the big stop to keep this one scoreless. But she couldn't keep Blaine out of the net long. A minute fifty four into the game, Abby Jones lights the lamp off the settering pass from Megan McKenzie. Roseau would get a few good looks in the first, rattling off eleven shots, including this look from Annika Stoskop, but Jaila O'Brien held stout. The Bengals would lead by three after a period thanks to the first of two goals from Gabby Rosenthal. They just rolled from there, but in the third, Roseau would finally get one across. Gina Wensloff goes top shelf with the backhand, but it was too little, too late as Blaine rolls to a 7-1 victory. Here's head coach Steve Huglin after the game. They could feel sorry for themselves and say, well, we just got shellac there, and this is all no good from here on out. Or the other way to look at it would be to say, you know what, it doesn't matter if we got beat by the score we did or if we would have gotten beat two to one and three over times, we'd still feel pretty much the same way we lost when the consolation round. So what you have to do right now, I think, is just hit the reset button, move forward, and try to do your best to win two games in the consolation round. And if you do, most teams are going to think that that's a successful tournament. So I think that's the way the girls will handle it. They've come back from adversity before. So I think they'll respond in a positive way. And I think you'll see a good hockey team tomorrow out of us. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.