STATE CHEER FINALS

Big third round gives Rochester its 12th title

FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTS • March 7,
2009

ADAM BIRD / DFP

Girls in the Rochester competitive cheer team compete
in the state finals last year at the Delta Plex
in Grand Rapids on Friday, March 7, 2008.

Rochester saved its best effort for the
final round Saturday

en route to winning the Division 1
competitive cheer state title at the Deltaplex in Grand Rapids.

The Falcons
posted a score of 323.4 in Round 3 and finished with an 811.2480 total,
edging Grandville, which scored an 806.0352.

The
victory avenged Rochester’s loss in last year’s
final, in which Grandville took top honors ahead of Rochester, ending the Falcons’
three-year run as state champ. Rochester has won 12 state titles.

Rochester posted a two-round subtotal of
487.8480, just ahead of Grandville’s 485.4352. Grandville scored 320.6
in the final round.

East Kentwood finished third with 802.6544, followed Sterling Heights Stevenson (797.2376),
Southgate Anderson (788.7856), Rochester Hills Stoney Creek (787.3672),
Holland West Ottawa (784.6304) and Lake Orion (783.6872).

Division
4: Michigan Center trailed Hudson, 448.1670-442.6160, after two
rounds, but outscored Hudson, 317.3-308.8, in the final round
to take home the title with a score of 759.9160.

Hudson finished with 756.9670, followed
by Ithaca (707.6254), Pewamo-Westphalia (705.1556), Manistique
(700.8812), Colon (698.4216), Laingsburg (685.4440)
and Norway (664.6448).