Originally published March
9, 2008

Hartland
fifth at cheer meet

DAILY PRESS & ARGUS

Photo by GILLIS BENEDICT/DAILY PRESS &
ARGUS

The Hartland competitive cheer team finished fifth at Friday's Division 1
state meet for the third season in a row. Brighton
finished 10th overall.

GRAND RAPIDS — The Hartland competitive cheer team
finished fifth in the Division 1 state meet at the Delta Plex in Grand
Rapids on Friday night. It was the third consecutive
year the Eagles finished fifth.

The Eagles finished
1.716 points behind fourth-place Rochester Hills Stoney Creek, which edged
Hartland by 3.5 points in the final round.

Brighton finished 10th
in the 10-team event after taking an eight-point penalty in the final round
which dropped them out of ninth and behind Sterling Heights Stevenson.

Grandville won with 794.804 points, its fourth
state championship overall. Rochester,
an 11-time champion, was second, 2.5 points behind.

Rochester and Grandville are the only two
schools which have ever won the Division 1 state cheer championship since the
Michigan High School Athletic Association tournament began in 1994.