Sports

Cheer team takes
4th at Stoney Creek

Casey
Curtis

December 20, 2006 - The Oxford varsity competitive
cheer team made fourth place in their pool at their first competition last
Saturday despite a team member being ill.

Coach Alanna Stockley
said she's glad her girls got their first competition under their belt and that they "really learned our strengths and
weaknesses and really came together as a team" as a result.

"We had to come together as a team because we had a girl with the
flu," Stockley said. "But it made us work
together to be a stronger team."

Stockley said her girls
will focus on cleaning up their rounds by making them "crisper" and
work on their back tucks, back walkovers, back handsprings and timing for
their second round skills.

They will also be adding more stunts for their third round skills. The
girls will travel to Lapeer East on Jan. 6 for their next competition.