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 at Williams Arena. The Rams (31-0) advanced to the championship game against second-seeded Sauk Centre at 2 p.m. Saturday, new territory for the northern Minnesota program.

Senior guard Kiley Borowicz hit six three-pointers and led Roseau with 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."

Fourth-seeded 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.

Sauk Centre’s Maesyn Thiesen, who had 11 points and eight rebounds, took the ball to Watertown-Mayer’s Monika Czinano.

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 pounced for 10 second-half steals, many times slapping the ball away from unsuspecting Wildcats 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."

Sauk Centre 58, Watertown-Mayer 41: Sauk Centre freshman guard Tori Peschel watched older sister Kali play in the 2012 championship game and now gets a chance of her own.

The Mainstreeters' victory over Watertown-Mayer booked their third title game appearance in six seasons. Tori Peschel led the way with game highs in scoring (20 points) and rebounds (13).

"To be there is a great opportunity, and I'm excited," Peschel said.

She embodied the ability of Sauk Centre (31-1) to adapt. When her first shot, a three-point attempt, didn't fall, Peschel began driving to the basket. Conversely, as Watertown-Mayer saw standout forward Monika Czinano double- and triple-teamed, the Royals offense struggled to find a Plan B.

Czinano, a 6-2 junior forward who made a verbal commitment to Iowa, was held to six points, and No. 3 seed Watertown-Mayer (27-4) shot only 23 percent from the floor.

"Sauk did a nice job defending us and making sure our inside-out game didn't really come through," Czinano said.

Sauk Centre coach Scott Bergman credited Alyssa Kohorst, a 5-8 senior forward, for "blocking [Czinano] out the whole game" and holding her to just one offensive rebound.

Little salvation was found on the perimeter. Watertown-Mayer was 3-for-20 from the three-point arc.

"They forced us to rush our shots," Royals coach John Rosholt said. "We didn't have our feet set a lot and we front-rimmed a lot."

Meanwhile, Peschel, Jill Klaphake (14 points) and Maesyn Thiesen (11) shared the offensive load. But defense made the difference.

"We hope our defensive pressure eventually gets to teams, and I think it did tonight," Bergman said.