Published: Thursday, January
31, 2008

Twin City cheer teams travel

Flivvs, Mountaineers to face
stiff competition in Mount Pleasant

Kingsford
travel Saturday to Mount Pleasant
for a competitive cheerleading meet.

Photos by Don Lhamon/The
Mining Journal and Burt Angeli/The Daily News

IRON MOUNTAIN
— Kingsford and Iron Mountain
take a step up in competition Saturday.

The Twin City
competitive cheer teams will participate at Mount Pleasant where the field will contain
Division 3 state runner-up Chippewa Hills.

In a change from previous meets, Iron
Mountain and Kingsford will be in the same division.

“We want to stay as close in the running with Kingsford
as we possibly can,” said Mountaineer coach Erin O’Brion.
“We just want to be that little element of surprise that no one is
expecting.”

In Monday’s Marquette Invitational, Coach Jacqueline Leiker’s Flivvers outpointed Marquette 714.020 to 588.76 for the
Division 1-2-3 title.

Coach Jodi Brueggeman’s Mountaineers chalked
up 700.83 to win Division 4, besting Manistique, 671.42; Munising, 647.3, and
Ishpeming, 622.7.

“It was a great night,” O’Brion
said. “Our one and only goal that night was not necessarily to win, it
was to break 700.

“Not only were Jodi and I excited, but the girls were overjoyed to know
that they met the goal we had set for them.”

The Twin City
teams need a 700 score to keep up with the top Lower
Michigan schools.

“We met that, now our goal is to get even further,” said O’Brion, shooting for a 705 or higher at Mount Pleasant.

Norway,
which competes in Munising on Saturday, will join Kingsford
at the Grand Rapids Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 9.

Mountaineers host the Iron Mountain Invitational on Monday, Feb. 11.