Monaco’s 25 Saves Send UW-Stout to WIAC Championship

MENOMONIE, Wis. — It wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t clean. But in the postseason, style points don’t matter. Top-seeded UW-Stout embodied the mantra “survive and advance” Saturday night, grinding out a 1-0 victory over No. 5 UW-Stevens Point in the WIAC Semifinals at the Fanetti Community Center. With the win, the Blue Devils (20-5-1) move on to the WIAC Championship game for a chance to claim their first-ever WIAC postseason tournament title and the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. After winning the outright WIAC regular season championship for the first time in program history — and earning a…