Rockford
cheers into second place

by Advance Newspapers

Tuesday February 05,
2008, 8:32 AM

The Rockford
cheer team was happy to take second place to Grandville at the Mount Pleasant
Invitational. The Rams moved one step closer to their O-K Red competitor on
Saturday with their score of 783.16 to Grandville's 791.692.

"We did fantastic," said Rockford coach Kathy Jo
Resseguie. "We took second to Grandville, the powerhouse team in the
area, but we closed the gap.

"We had a season-high round one and round two," she said.
"In round one, we did edge out Grandville by one point. We hit it on
Saturday. It was great that the hard work paid off. We had a fantastic round
two. It was our best performance or practice of the round."

The Rams scored a 227 in round one and a 244.160 in round two. The
final round, they scored a 312.

"We still have some real small stuff to clean up in round
three," said the coach. "We had a girl call that morning sick, so
we had some awesome team members step up. It was great to have the depth for
our back-ups to step in and do so well."

Filling in for the Rams were juniors Katelynn
Andreen and Marissa Knutson and sophomore Lindsey
Blodgett.

The team will compete on Saturday at the Delta Plex,
along with most of the top talent in the state.

"It is a huge tournament," said Resseguie. "Everyone is
preparing for it. It will be great to see where we are at. It is the East and
West teams competing all in the same place."