Cheer:  Four area teams heading to state
finals

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Four News-Herald area teams are
heading to the Michigan High School Athletic Association state finals in Grand Rapids Saturday.

The top four teams in each of
eight regions throughout the state qualified for the finals.

Defending Division 2 state
champion Carlson punched its ticket to the finals by winning the Carleton Airport regional.

Allen Park also qualified out of that
region, finishing third.

Roosevelt, also at Airport, just missed
qualifying; finishing about nine points behind Ortonville-Brandon the final
qualifier.

Anderson qualified by finishing third in
the Wayne Memorial regional, the tournament that featured the highest scoring
regional team this season, Rochester, who posted an 806.9608.

Only one other team – Comstock Park in Division 3 – managed a
score that reached the 800-point level.

The final area qualifier was
Grosse Ile, which finished second at the Division 3 regional hosted by
Goodrich.

Saturday’s state finals will
be hosted by the Deltaplex in Grand Rapids.

The Division 1 teams will compete
at 9 a.m., the Division 4 teams will compete at noon, the Division 2 teams will
compete at 4:30 and the Division 3 teams will compete at 7:30.