Flivvs capture IM cheer meet

January 15, 2009

IRON MOUNTAIN - Kingsford, after
pulling out the first round by less than two points, prevailed Monday in the
Iron Mountain Invitational high school competitive cheerleading meet.

The
Flivvers showed a 201.9 to 200.4 edge over Gladstone in the first round.
Kingsford then took charge in Division 2-3 with 646.6 total points over the
runner-up Braves at 616.7.

Escanaba
claimed third, 469.7, and Marquette finished fourth,
422.1.

In Division
4, Manistique, 644.1, rolled past Norway, 600.9; Munising,
596.0, and the host Mountaineers, 580.4.

Gladstone won the junior
varsity meet, posting 470.0 in beating Kingsford, 449.2, and Escanaba, 352.3.

In eighth
grade competition, Kingsford, 243.0, downed Iron Mountain, 204.3, and Norway, 183.8.

Norway's seventh graders,
205.8, topped Iron Mountain, 198.4, and
Kingsford, 178.2.

Middle
school honors went to Munising with 288.8. Manistique placed second at 272.4.

Dickinson County teams return to the
mat Saturday, Jan. 24, for the Norway Invitational.