C-L cheer turns in best finish of season

Tuesday, February
10, 2009

CROSWELL - Coaches talk about their team peaking at
the right time. Stephanie Davis hopes her competitive cheer team is doing
just that.

Cros-Lex hosted a BWAC Jamboree last Thursday night and finished
second behind state-ranked Richmond, turning in their highest point
total of the season.

Richmond, ranked No. 2 in Division 3, took
first at Cros-Lex with 772.6352 points to solidify
their hold on first place in the BWAC standings. The Pioneers were next with
688.5310 and now trail second place Capac by one point and are just ahead of
Yale in the standings.

"This
was the highest score we've had all year," said Stephanie Davis, C-L
coach. "Hopefully, this is a good start for our girls to know what we
have to doÉÉ. We hope to ride that
into the districts."

Cros-Lex will get a chance to, perhaps, finish in second place, or at least share second, with Capac, in the final
jamboree at Armada tonight (Wednesday).

Davis, though, is not so much worried
about finishing ahead of Capac and Yale, but wants to see her team's point
totals continue to increase.

"It's points that count," she explained. "We need
to score closer to 700, or more, to get out of districts."

This
year will mark the first time in cheer for District level competition in the
post-season. The growing number of schools with cheer teams in the state
forced the change from just Regional-to-State. Now, teams will have to
qualify for Regionals from the District meets.