 Tomorrow is finally the day that the Minnesota State softball tournament welcomes the Bemidji Lumberjacks. And while the Jax drew the top seed in the tournament, they're hungry and ready to go. Well it's just kind of like a new season almost like sections kind of set a new season for us and now a new opportunity at state and we're just going in with a fresh mind and going to try our hardest down there. From that final game we've been kind of like taking our weaknesses and kind of practicing on those and getting ready for state. Their opponent, the Faribault Falcons, are led by their pitching staff. The Falcons have 14 shutouts on the year and over their last 20 games they've given up more than two runs just once. We've been practicing with higher speeds at practice these last couple days just to try to get used to it and we also had a college softball player come and pitch to us so we got to kind of see other pitches as well. Girls actually responded pretty well to that so it's just a matter of getting good pitches to hit down there and hopefully put her in our favor rather than her favor. Like anyone can win on any given day so if we go into full force we definitely have a chance I think. I can see us doing pretty well because no one's going to expect anything out of us. We're the new team. We're the only team from the north and they're going to see it. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.