The cheer Tigers might have scored higher this year. But they haven’t performed better than they did Saturday.
At least that was coach Dianne Cotrell’s assessment of her team’s 236-point, first place performance in the Northeast Georgia Championships at Winder-Barrow High School. The region meet lies ahead this weekend.
“It was just a perfect day,” Cotrell said of the win.
Commerce won the Class A division by 30 points, beating Social Circle, Lincoln County, Washington-Wilkes and Hebron Christian Academy.
Commerce scored a 244 in its second meet of the year, but Cotrell said this was the superior performance.
“I don’t think we performed as well (in that meet) as we did on Saturday,” Cotrell said.
The coach explained that the season-high score came while performing under “level 2” difficulty. Since then, the cheer Tigers have sharpened their routine and added more difficulty, performing at “level 3” on Saturday.
Now, Commerce takes the more tasking routine to the region meet at Mill Creek High School where it hopes to qualify for the state meet.
Speaking of the state meet, Cotrell said that Bremen and Trion appear to be the teams to beat in Class A while Gordon Lee is another contender for the crown.
The cheer Tigers finished third at state last year.
In other good news for the Commerce cheerleading program, the middle school squad closed out its first competitive cheerleading schedule with a first-place finish at Winder-Barrow. The CMS squad beat 10 other teams Saturday.
“I was proud of my middle school team, too,” Cotrell said.
