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Belding seventh, TC 10th at meet

■ Chippewa Hills wins cheer
meet at Comstock
Park

BY JOHN RAFFEL

DAILY NEWS SPORTS EDITOR

January 31, 2006

COMSTOCK
PARK —
It’s back to Round 1 for Belding’s competitive cheer team. The
Redskins finished seventh among 11 schools taking part in Monday’s
Comstock Park Invitational.

Chippewa Hills was victorious with 698.1 points followed by Sparta at 685.9, Comstock
Park at 681.1, Godwin
Heights at 646.9, Allendale at
639.4, Unity Christian at 623.4, Belding at 621, Shelby
at 593.6, Wyoming Lee at 550.3, Tri County at 530.9 and Fremont at 412.5.

This marked the Redskins’ fifth meet of the season.

“In rounds 2 and 3 I thought we did very well,” said Belding
Coach Stacy Venneman. “It’s Round 1
that we need to work on. Our scores don’t seem to be going up in
that.”

The first round focuses on a variety of skills while Round 2 stresses
compulsories and Round 3 emphasizes stunts and mounts. “We have a (OK
Blue) conference meet Wednesday” at Coopersville, Venneman
said. “After that we’ll work on Round 1 and try to make changes
on that.”

The
competition Monday “was very good,” she said. “I thought we
still could have scored higher than we did. But if you look at the point
total, we weren’t that far behind strong teams like Allendale and Unity
Christian.”

Competing
for the Redskins were Amber Allison, Jenny Brady, Dannielle
Garlick, Lacy Garlick, Tiann Hattis, Sarah Heffron, Rachel Mc Gee, Rachel Meredith, Monika Nieto and
Emily Venneman.

Led by
Coach Jennifer Laskey, Tri County’s cheer participants included Amanda Bosley, Theresa Bowen, Andrea Caverley,
Brianna De Vries, Lindy Demarest, Stefanie De Vaney, Amanda Dexter, Tiffany Gilbert, Jolene Gitchel, Brittany Hoisington, Kristin Maxson,
Rachel Mc Kinnon, Rebekah
Nagy, Nikki Price and Margie Solmonson. The Vikings
will travel to the Mount Pleasant Invitational on Saturday.