JAMESTOWN RAGSDALE WINS CAROLINA CUP
IN NCHSAA INVITATIONAL CHEERLEADING COMPETITION
RALEIGH— Jamestown Ragsdale captured the top honor, the Carolina Cup, in the sixth annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association state invitational cheerleading championships at the Raleigh Convention Center on Saturday.
Cheer Ltd., Inc., one of the NCHSAA’s corporate partners that assists with the invitational championship, established the Carolina Cup to recognize annually the top high school varsity cheerleading team in the state. Cardinal Gibbons won the Cup for earning the highest cumulative score in the whole competition among varsity teams, regardless of the division in which they compete. Cardinal Gibbons, North Gaston and Raleigh Sanderson are the previous winners of the Carolina Cup.
Ragsdale won the super varsity division en route to winning the Carolina Cup. It was the third straight year the school had taken first place in at least one division of the competition.
Davie County took top honors in the small varsity co-ed class while Waxhaw Marvin Ridge won the super large varsity category.
Cherryville was the winner in the large varsity division, while Huntersville Hopewell captured top honors in the medium varsity category and Wilson Hunt was first in the small varsity category.
In non-tumble competition, Dixon was the champion in the small varsity and North Buncombe was the top team in the large varsity division.
Among the junior varsity teams competing, Raleigh Millbrook took top honors in the large JV division, Fuquay-Varina won the small JV, and Canton Pisgah won the junior varsity non-tumble.
A record number of 115 teams participated in the event.
NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
6th annual Invitational Cheerleading Championship
Raleigh Convention Center
November 8, 2008
Final results:
Small junior varsity (5 to 15 members)
Champion— Fuquay-Varina 223.5
Monroe Piedmont 220.5
Harnett Central 208.5
Richlands 206.5
North Johnston 202.5
Fayetteville Pine Forest 201
Wilson Hunt 192.5
Large junior varsity (16 and up)
Champion— Raleigh Millbrook 220
Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons 219
Overhills 215.5
Greenville D.H. Conley 214.5
Currituck 214
Jacksonville White Oak 208.5
Wilmington Hoggard 207
Havelock 196.5
Junior varsity non-tumble
Champion—Canton Pisgah 225
SouthWest Edgecombe 203.5
Lumberton 200
Burnsville Mountain Heritage 198.5
North Lincoln 198.5
Cameron Union Pines 196.5
Hope Mills South View 195.5
North Wilkes 190
Small varsity non-tumble (19 and fewer)
Champion— Dixon 229
Wilson Fike 227
Cape Hatteras 225.5
Burnsville Mountain Heritage 225.5
Pamlico 225
Large varsity non-tumble (20 and up)
Champion— North Buncombe 251.5
East Bend Forbush 247
Hampstead Topsail 245.5
Elizabeth City Northeastern 240.5
East Duplin 235
Camden 235
Seven Springs Spring Creek 234.5
West Wilkes 232.5
North Pitt 229
Jacksonville White Oak 228
Ashe County 227
North Iredell 225.5
Lejeune 223
Pender 221
North Wilkes 216
West Craven 215.5
North Brunswick 214
Small varsity (5 to 12 members)
Champion— Wilson Hunt 232.5
South Iredell 231.5
Wilmington Hoggard 228
Fairmont 226
West Iredell 220
Wilson Beddingfield 219.5
Medium varsity (13 to 16 members)
Champion—Huntersville Hopewell 253
Charlotte Providence 247.5
North Lincoln 245.5
Jacksonville 244.5
Charlotte Myers Park 244
East Davidson 240
Cary 239.5
Monroe Sun Valley 238
Asheville Clyde Erwin 237
East Mecklenburg 232
Spring Lake Overhills 231.5
Charlotte Ardrey Kell 230.5
South Brunswick 229.5
Newport Croatan 228.5
Princeton 227.5
Indian Trail Porter Ridge 223
Fayetteville Pine Forest 221.5
North Johnston 219.5
Large varsity (17 to19 members)
Champion—Cherryville 256.5
South Caldwell 251
Raleigh Sanderson 242.5
Fayetteville Terry Sanford 235.5
Currituck 235
Canton Pisgah 235
Richlands 235
Morganton Patton 229
Morrisville Green Hope 228.5
Swansboro 227.5
Holly Springs 227
Marshville Forest Hills 226
Southern Wayne 225
Knightdale 225
Havelock 225
Bunn 225
West Brunswick 222.5
Franklinton 216.5
Super varsity (20 to 21 members)
Champion— Jamestown Ragsdale 262.5
North Gaston 254.5
Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons 248.5
Weddington 247.5
Greenville D.H. Conley 245.5
Apex 240.5
Fuquay-Varina 240
Hope Mills South View 237.5
Newton Grove Midway 233.5
Fayetteville Seventy-First 232
Harnett Central 230
Super large varsity (22-plus members)
Champion— Waxhaw Marvin Ridge 259
Pikeville C.B. Aycock 249
Raleigh Broughton 247.5
New Bern 236.5
Charlotte Catholic 235
Eden Morehead 232
Small varsity coed (2 to 4 males)
Champion— Davie County 243.5
Lumberton 232.5
Pembroke Purnell Swett 229
Northern Nash 218
END NCHSAA CHEERLEADING COMPETITION
