In high school basketball, Montezuma’s girls take on defending Class 1A State Champion Newell-Fonda Friday afternoon (3/5) in the State 1A semifinals in Des Moines.  Montezuma eliminated St. Ansgar 50-45 in Wednesday’s (3/3) quarterfinals, while Newell-Fonda routed Kingsley-Pierson 88-47.  Bravettes Coach Janel Burgess talked about playing the two-time defending champs.

“They’re a unique group, aren’t they?  They just come at you, they’re just like a little pack of wolves, they keep coming after you.   So it’ll be a good challenge for us to be able to evaluate what we need to do to put ourselves in the most valuable and successful positions to succeed.  And from there, it’s a game.  You never know what’s going to happen.  They’ve won many championships.  They’re a tremendous program with a tremendous coaching staff. and they do very, very well.  So It’ll be fun.”

Montezuma and Newell-Fonda face off at 4pm Friday afternoon at Wells Fargo Arena.  KBOE-FM and KBOEradio.com will have live coverage of Bravettes’ State Tournament basketball starting at 3:45.