State cheerleading tourney field down to 40
The preliminaries are over at the IHSA cheerleading state championships in Bloomington. Of the 100 teams that qualified for state, 40 now remain to compete in Saturday's finals - 10 each in the categories of coed, large schools, medium schools and small schools.
The small school category is dominated by high schools downstate - the only qualifying "small" school from in or near the Daily Herald coverage area is Timothy Christian in Elmhurst.
Once the finalists are determined the scores are wiped out, and all cheer teams start out Saturday's competition with "0" scores.
Here are the finalists:
Coed Division1. Elk Grove High School2. Downers Grove South3. Lake Park 4. Libertyville 5. Barrington 6. Mascoutah 7. Normal West 8. Thornwood 9. St. Ignatius College Prep 10. Belleville WestLarge Division1. Conant 2. Sandburg 3. Lockport Township 4. Neuqua Valley 5. Stevenson 6. Andrew 7. Marist 8. Bradley-Bourbannais9. Edwardsville 10. St. ViatorMedium Division1. Lemont 2. Grant 3. Oak Forest 4. Riverside-Brookfield 5. Prairie Ridge 6. Antioch 7. Wauconda8. Highland 9. Triad 10. BloomingtonSmall Division1. Columbia 2. South Fork 3. Breese Central4. Paris 5. Timothy Christian 6. Lexington 7. Wilmington 8. Sesser-Valier 9. Tremont 10. EurekaTrue20001388Libertyville cheerleaders hear they will advance to IHSA finals on Saturday.George LeClaire | Staff PhotographerTrue <div class="infoBox"><h1>More Coverage</h1><div class="infoBoxContent"><div class="infoArea"><h2>Video</h2><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><div style="display:none"></div><!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and Cfound at http://corp.brightcove.com/legal/terms_publisher.cfm.--><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script><object id="myExperience65130685001" class="BrightcoveExperience"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="width" value="300" /><param name="height" value="255" /><param name="playerID" value="18011347001" /><param name="publisherID" value="1659832549"/><param name="isVid" value="true" /><param name="@videoPlayer" value="65130685001" /></object><!-- End of Brightcove Player --></ul><h2>Photo Galleries</h2><ul class="gallery"><li><a href="/story/?id=357141">IHSA State Cheerleading competition </a></li></ul></div></div></div>