Godwin Heights faces tough cheer regional

Thursday,
March 03, 2005

By Steve
Ungrey

The Grand Rapids Press

What is it like to have all
of the area's best Class B competitive cheer teams competing in one regional?

Just ask Godwin Heights coach Chris Hudson, who
takes his Wolverines squad into what might be one of the most difficult
regionals in the state at 4 p.m. Saturday at Allegan.

"It's all about what
you put on the floor," Hudson
said. "The top five will be a battle and only the top two teams in this
regional can go on to the state finals."

The
state meet will be held March 12 at The DeltaPlex in Walker.

Holland Christian will be
tough. Otsego, Allegan, Wyoming Park, and Unity Christian have all
had good teams too."

Godwin Heights is coming off
a strong showing at the O-K Conference Tier 3 meet, held Saturday at Comstock
Park. The Wolverines finished third in the tournament, with 643.5 points
(behind Comstock Park's 709.5 and Coopersville's 650.5).

Even though the Wolverines
finished seven points behind Coopersville at the tournament, they still had
enough power to eke out second place overall behind the Panthers.

"The only way for us to
lose second place was to finish fourth at the league meet," Hudson said.

Rogers finished seventh overall (579.5),
with Kelloggsville in ninth (549), Lee in 10th (501.5) and Hopkins 11th (499).

In O-K Conference Tier 2
action, Wyoming Park scored 631 points to place sixth
overall, as Holland Christian won the meet with 702.5 points.

Godwin Heights,
Kelloggsville, Wyoming
Park and Rogers
are all at Saturday's Class B regional in Allegan.

Hopkins competes in a Class C regional at
Climax Scotts (at 6 p.m.) and Lee competing at Shelby (at 4 p.m.).

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