Tri-County Times

LF cheer completes perfect regular season at Tigers Invitational

By David Troppens

Published: Wednesday,
February 24, 2009

The Lake Fenton varsity
competitive cheer team celebrates its first-place performance at a recent
tournament. The squad has had a lot to celebrate this season, earning
first-place finishes in all four regular-season events it’s
competed in this year.

In many ways the Lake Fenton varsity competitive
cheer team can call its season perfect.

The Blue Devils completed a season where they finished in first place in
their division at every meet, by winning the Division 3 level of the Tigers
Invitational Saturday.

Lake Fenton finished with a team
score of 690.78, edging Goodrich’s second-place total of 687.9.

“We were pretty proud to bring home another first,” Lake Fenton coach Ashley Latimer
said. “We are four out of four in tournaments. It’s a perfect
season going into districts.”

The Blue Devils are getting close to accomplishing a  few other goals as
well. The team wants to post a 700 and would have done it on Saturday if not
for some penalties.

“We’ve scored higher than that but without penalties we
would’ve been at 706 and our goal is to get over 700,” Latimer
said. “But they were silly mistakes and I think we can clean those
up.”

All area competitive cheer teams competed in district action on Saturday.
Those who finish in the top four at the district competitions, advance to
regional action.

“We have a really tough district,” Latimer said.  “Ovid-Elsie is demolishing
people and Chesaning is the defending state champs. It will be a tough
district, but we are excited.

“If we can get a 700 it can go either way. Above a 700 is a good thing
and we were definitely close to that line last week.”