Competitive Cheer: Anderson,
Carlson, Grosse Ile win district titles

By Hank Minckiewicz

Tuesday, February
24, 2009

The Downriver area will be well
represented at this weekend’s competitive cheerleading regionals.

Three teams won district
titles last week and three more finished among the top four in district to
earn regional berths.

Anderson won the Division 1 district 2 title at Wayne Memorial, beating out second place Livonia
Churchill.

Defending
Division 2 state champ Carlson won the District 2 Region 8 title at Carleton Airport, beating out archrival Allen Park.

Grosse
Ile won Division 3 District 14 title at Brooklyn Columbia Central, topping the
runner-up host school.

Carlson’s
wining score of 783.2920 was the highest among Downriver qualifiers and one
of the highest in district competition statewide.

Allen
Park, which was the state runner-up to Carlson in Division 2 a season ago,
was second to the Marauders in the Airport district and Roosevelt qualified
by finishing fourth in that district.

The final
Downriver regional qualifier was Flat Rock, which was third in the Brooklyn
Columbia Central district.

Twelve-team
regionals are Saturday at various locations.

Anderson is back at Wayne Memorial, Allen Park, Carlson and Roosevelt are at Airport and Grosse Ile and
Flat Rock are at Goodrich.

The state
finals are March 7 at the Deltaplex in Grand Rapids.

Mega Conference

At the
Mega Conference meet last Wednesday, Carlson ruled the roost, scoring
783.5512 points to win the league title.

Anderson was second with 757.9152 and Allen Park was third with 744.582.