Cheer team earns two victories

Talk about a
turnaround.

Years of struggle seem
to finally be drawing to a close for the Milford varsity competitive cheer team,
which recently earned a pair of victories to improve to 2-2 on the season so
far.

"They have not
had a win in a long, long time," said first-year Milford coach Lisa Hoffman, who previously
spent eight years coaching competitive cheer at Hartland.

"My girls, even
my seniors, have not won anything," Hoffman continued. "They are
ecstatic, and I am so proud of them."

The days of simply
cheering for the Milford
basketball players are long gone, as local competitive cheer teams now
actually hold competitions against each other in a dual-meet format.

The Mavericks started
off their season on Jan. 4 with a meet against Howell. Milford did well in all three rounds but
ended up losing by a score of 523.3-522.5.

Next up was Brighton on Jan. 18. This time around the Mavs finished second once again, scoring a total of
549.3.

And then their luck
started changing.

On Jan. 23 the Mavs topped Walled Lake Western and Walled Lake Northern
in a tri-meet, finishing with 573.6 points. Two days later they kept up their
winning ways, defeating South Lyon by a
score of 565.7-555.1.

After additional
league dual meets, the Kensington Valley Conference championship will be held
at Milford on
Feb. 18.