Roseau’s green and white uniforms on Friday reflected school colors, not Irish heritage. Besides, the undefeated and top-ranked Rams would rather celebrate Saturday after winning their first girls’ basketball state title.

They are in position to make history after a 79-57 rout of New London-Spicer in the Class 2A tournament semifinal. The Rams (31-0) advanced to the championship game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Williams Arena, new territory for the northern Minnesota program.

Senior guard Kiley Borowicz hit six three-pointers and led Roseau with a game-high 41 points.

“It’s a really great feeling because we’ve worked for this since elementary school and everyone’s been saying this is our year,” Borowicz said. “So I really hope we can pull through.”

No. 4 seed New London-Spicer (27-4) became the latest victim of Roseau’s dominance. Only once this season has the Rams’ margin of victory been fewer than 10 points.

“Number 44 [Borowicz] is an awful, awful good player and they’ve got other good players, too,” said Wildcats coach Mike Dreier, the winningest coach in Minnesota girls’ basketball history.

The Rams built a 12-3 lead to start the game before New London-Spicer answered with a 14-0 run of its own. In the second half, Roseau opened with a 12-2 run. This time, however, the Wildcats wilted.

Roseau’s defense pounced for 10 second-half steals, many times slapping the ball away from unsuspecting Wildcat players.

“They just got in our heads,” said junior guard Shea Oman, who led New London-Spicer with 21 points. “We’ve never played a team that will just take it from you while you’re standing there.”

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Top-ranked and No. 1 seed Roseau remained undefeated with a 79-57 victory against New London-Spicer on Friday in the Class 2A tournament semifinal game.

The Rams (31-0) advance to the championship game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Williams Arena, a first for the northern Minnesota program.

Leading scorer Kiley Borowicz led Roseau with a game-high 41 points.

No. 4 seed New London-Spicer (27-4) became the latest victim of Roseau’s dominance. Only once has an opponent lost to the Rams this season by fewer than 10 points.

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