Page 12 - Wednesday, November 9, 2022
The Sylvania Times
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CHEERLEADERS TAKE
SECOND IN AREA, HEAD
TO MACON SATURDAY
Throwing an Area 2-A runner-up performance at Ola High School last
Saturday, the SCHS Lady Gamecock cheerleaders of Cindy LeMaster
ended a two year absence from the state finals and will head to the Macon
Centreplex this Saturday for the GHSA Class A championships. The
destination of the finals and the venue have changed, it is no longer the
Civic Center in Columbus as it was seemingly forever, it is now the Macon
Centreplex. That does not matter for it is the state finals. On Saturday
morning the doors open at 9:00 with performances to begin at 10:00.
Tickets are $15 per session (for SCHS Day 2, Session 1) and all must be
purchased at GoFan.
This season marked the first time since SCHS dropped to Class A (2020)
that there were Areas for competition. For the past two seasons all public
Class A squads met at one place with the top eight advancing to the finals.
At Ola Saturday four Area crowns were awarded with the top 16 scores
going to Macon. This organization is similar to wrestling. Final standings
for Area 2-A were Schley County with 68.5, SCHS with 65, Johnson County
with 64.5, ECI with 59, and
Metter with 55. Only Metter did not advance to the finals this Saturday.
Interestingly all save champion Schley County were at Swainsboro last
week with the Red and White defeating ECI and J0C0 but falling to Metter.
In McDonough the Lady Gamecocks had their highest score of the year
with a 27.5 on the Category C (Partner Stunts/Pyramids) score sheet. The
improvement came in the execution of their pyramids. Never had their
score been higher than a six and they reached an eight (of 10) Saturday.
That, combined with a two point deduction given to Johnson County,
gave SCHS their runner-up trophy. Metter, which had done so well in
Swainsboro, was hit with a seven point deduction which included a
tumbling fall, and missed Macon. The highest score for any area for
the Red and White was a 6/6 for degree of difficulty for jumps.
The 16 advancing squads and their scores were Armuchee with 88.5,
Lake Oconee Academy with 87.5, Pepperell with 86.5, Swainsboro with 84,
Bleckley County with 83, Commerce with 81.5, Coosa with 77, Trion with
75.5, Dade County with 74, Bacon County with 71, Schley County with 66.5,
East Laurens with 65.5, SCHS with 65, Johnson County with 64.5, Mt.
Vernon with 60, and ECI with 59. The Lady Gamecocks have met seven of
those during the season. Of the four areas the SCHS Area 2 advanced four
squads as did Area 1 while Area 5 had five, and Area 3 had three.
LADY GAMECOCK CROSS
COUNTRY ENDS SEASON AT
STATE MEET
The Area 2-A
runners-up
competitive
cheerleaders
from SCHS
(photo by Jamie
Warren).
One of the two
stunt groups
from Saturday
was (clockwise
from front
left) Camdy
Forehand,
Abbey Wall,
Gracen
Kullberg, Olivia
Jackson (back),
and Emma
Warren (photo
by Jamie
Warren).
Part of the
performance
of the SCHS
Lady Gamecock
competitive
cheerleaders at
Ola High School
on Saturday has
Gracen Kullberg
and Peyton
Lee on top
(photo by Jamie
Warren)
Sadie Beth Sell (#2576)
Lynnlie Rountree (#2579)
Taking a 16 th place statewide finish in Carrollton last Friday morning, their
seventh consecutive time placing in the state’s top 20, the Screven County Lady
Gamecock cross country team of Anna Canetto closed the doors on another
successful season. Regaining their region title after a runner-up finish in 2021,
the team easily won the Class A Region 3 Di title on October 25. The title was the
team’s 10 th in 11 years.
Friday the top runner for SCHS from among 181 participants was freshman
Sadie Beth Sell who took 81st with a time of 25:59.29. She was followed by junior
Ashley Langley (92 nd 26:31.27), freshman Kaydance Bragg (94 th , 26:39.64),
freshman Annaston Dotschay (110 th, 27:47.24), and senior Lynnlie Rountree (121
st, 28:46.24).
Bleckley County was easily the state champion of Di with a final score of 60 (1, 6,
13,15, and 25). Lady Royal Ella Gibbs was the individual champion with a time of
18:57-53-
Second place Paideia had 106. Five of the top ten teams were private schools,
who at the Class A level a year ago, had their own classification. Eight of the top
ten individual runners were from public schools. Of the 25 teams who ran SCHS
finished 16 th (471), Bryan County was 18 th (546), Metter was 19 th (547), and
Claxton was 23 rd (649). The Lady Gamecocks were 57 behind 15 th place Jasper
County and 13 points ahead of 17 th place Temple.
Kaydance Bragg (#2572)
Ashley Langley (#2574)
Annaston Dotschay (#2573)
A.J. Beths
FARM
BUREAU
INSURANCE
Always the
Home Team
Scrcvcn County | Chris Marl-in
Screven County High
School Gamecocks Farm
Bureau “Player of the
Week” is Sophomore, A.J.
Beths. A.J. gave it all he
had and returned three kicks
