Top-ranked Hudson cheer squad wins at Clinton

By Josh
Evans

Feb 06, 2009

By Linda Campbell

The Hudson High School competitive cheer team
performs one of its routines during Thursday’s jamboree at Clinton
High School. The Tigers, top-ranked in Division 4, won the Red Division
over Madison while host Clinton was third. Ida High School won the Black
Division.

CLINTON, Mich. -

The
Hudson High School competitive cheerleading squad continued its strong season
by placing first in the Red Division in Thursday’s meet at Clinton.

Madison placed second in the Red Division while Clinton finished third.
Morenci placed fourth to round out the Red Division.

Adrian placed second overall in the Black Division and Blissfield was fourth.
Ida placed first in the black division.

Hudson, which is the top-ranked team in Division 4, had the top scores in
each of the first two rounds. The Tigers totaled a 218.9 in the first and
added 225.48 in the second.

“We were a little bit off tonight,” Hudson coach Kelly Bailey
said. “We are not used to doing our routine on wrestling mats but I
think we did good. We still have room for improvement.”

The third round was much of the same for the Tigers as they performed their
routine in perfect unison, earning a score of 291.5. Hudson finished with a
total of 735.88 while the closest competitor Ida, had just 655.99.

“I’m really happy for our girls,” Bailey said. “They
love what they do and that makes a big difference. Everyone came out here in
our first trip to Clinton in a long time and we did pretty good.”

Madison tried to keep the score close posting a 182.8 in the first round and
a 196.19 in the second round.

“Districts are in a couple weeks,” Madison coach Emily Gafford
said. “We just have to clean up our routine a little bit. Our tumbling
needs to improve as well as our stunts, but if and when we do those things we
will be a lot better.”

The Trojans were down 40 points to Hudson heading into the final round and
the margin only widened as Madison scored 253.6 in the third.

“Overall I think we did pretty well,”Gafford said. “We were
not nearly 100 percent. We had a girl with the flu and others with different
problems. But they battled through all three rounds and it turned out good in
the end.”

The Redskins were looking to take a trophy with them as they left their home
gym. Clinton fell short of a trophy, but still placed third in the Red
Division. Clinton opened with a 179.2, but struggled in the second round
managing a score of just 149.87. In the third round the Redskins
scored 250.7 to finish with 579.77.

“We did OK,” Clinton coach Tiffany Voll said. “We
had a lot of down falls. The girls were so nervous on their home floor. We
only host one meet a year and this was it. The girls really wanted a trophy
but we are still happy with third.”

Adrian coach Kam Gould was pleased with her team’s runner-up finish in
the Black Division.

“I am very excited,” Gould said. “The girls have worked so
hard and deserved this.”

The Maples scored 185.2 in the first round which left them in third place
behind Ida and Saline. Adrian then scored 174.93 which propelled them past
the Hornets for second place.

With Ida leading by more than 40 points going into the final round, the
Maples made up some ground by posting a 276 in the final round. The score was
not enough to lift Adrian past the Bluestreaks as they finished in second
with a score of 636.43.

“We struggled a little bit in the first round,” Gould said.
“I think we did a good job making up for it in the third though. We
stuck all of our tumbling and hit our stunts. We wanted first, no lie, but we
did a good job. It seems like every week we are finishing second, we have
just redid our routine and are still getting better.”

Blissfield and Morenci both finished fourth in their respective divisions.

The Royals posted 163.5 in the first round and added 152.46 in the second,
before a 211.6 in the final round for a score of 527.56 which placed them
fourth in the Black Division.

“Today was a rebuilding day,” Royal coach Amber Kleindienst said.
“We added people to every round, for as many changes as we made I am
pretty happy with the results.”

Morenci finished in fourth place in the Red Division just ahead of fifth
place Whitmore Lake.

The Bulldogs scored 165 in the first round and 143.8 in the second. Morenci
then posted its highest score of the day with a 265.6 in the third round for
a total of 574.4.

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