MCMINNVILLE — History was made for the Redmond girls basketball team in the Class 5A quarterfinals Thursday afternoon.

Never before have the Panthers won a trophy at the state tournament. Now they will. Never before have the Panthers advanced to the semifinal round. Now they have after outlasting No. 3 Wilsonville 45-39 in overtime at Linfield University.

Now No. 6 Redmond will take on No. 1 Silverton in the semifinals Friday at 6:30 p.m. for a berth in the title game.

“This is what we have wanted forever,” said a teary-eyed Dylan Cheney, who scored a game-high 18 points and was named Redmond’s Player of the Game. “We were all just so happy to win this one.”

The Intermountain Conference champions, playing in its first state tournament game in over two decades, did not shy away from the bright lights against the higher-seeded Wildcats.

After Cheney hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to end the first quarter to put Redmond (22-4 overall) up 11-10, the Panthers never trailed. Although in each quarter, whenever it appeared Redmond was ready to pull away, Wilsonville (20-7) would respond with a run of its own.

It was a one-point game after the first and second quarters and a three-point game heading into the fourth quarter.

“When you play championship-level teams, they are going to make runs,” said Redmond coach Alex Carlson. “(Wilsonville has) a lot of really good players that aren’t going to back down. We talked about it constantly — don’t get too high, don’t get too low and good things will happen. And they stuck to it.”

It was far from the prettiest basketball game. Wilsonville shot 30.2% from the field while Redmond shot 29.8%.

Both teams made just over half of their free throw attempts. There were a combined 54 turnovers. There was not a single point made in the final 2:33 of the game.

And yet, the Panthers did just enough to find a way past Wilsonville to advance in overtime.

“When we went into overtime, we knew that we could beat them,” said freshman Freya Snow, who finished with nine points and a game-high 12 rebounds and four steals. “We have worked so hard in practice for this, and in overtime, it just clicked.”

As she has done seemingly all year in the biggest moments, the 14-year-old Snow came up with critical plays in crucial moments of the game.

Within the first 45 seconds of overtime, Snow scored the first three points, making a free throw and scoring a layup off an offensive rebound and had a steal to help the Panthers regain.

Those three points proved to be the game-winning points.

“When you have a freshman doing that type of stuff, it is amazing how she continues to improve every single day,” Carlton said. “She is in there tangling with the bigs and mixing it up and not slowing down. I just think, man, I would like to see the eighth grader who was trying to guard her last year.”

The Panthers held the Wildcats to two points in the overtime period, and while the Panthers struggled from the free throw line throughout the course of the game, they made four of their six attempts in overtime to seal the victory.

Sophomore Mylaena Norton finished with eight points, including a big bucket in overtime and junior Azlynn Ure finished with six points and four steals in the win.