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St. Joseph Hill Academy’s Small Varsity DII routine punched its ticket to Finals on Saturday morning. (Annie DeBiase for the Advance\/SILive.com)(Annie DeBiase for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\nORLANDO, Fla. — Notre Dame Academy and St. Joseph Hill Academy, both competing in Small Varsity DII at the National High School Cheerleading Competition, have both reached Finals after two days of competition.<\/p>\n
NDA\u2019s Game-Day team, meanwhile, defied the odds as it advanced directly into Finals for the first time in program history. The Gators, earning first in the \u201cB\u201d bracket to bypass semis, earned second overall.<\/p>\n
Both teams performed a solid routine on Friday night during prelims, with NDA hitting zero and earning third in the \u201cA\u201d bracket with a score of 82.8 while Hill, taking a 0.5 deduction, scored a 76.9.<\/p>\n
St. Joseph Hill Academy’s Small Varsity DII routine punched its ticket to Finals on Saturday morning. (Annie DeBiase for the Advance\/SILive.com)(Annie DeBiase for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, it was the Hilltoppers\u2019 turn to hit zero as they scored a 79.2 and 9th in the \u201cC\/D\u201d bracket, which was just enough to earn their spot in Finals. NDA, meanwhile, took a one-point deduction to earn a score of 81.8, earning fifth in the \u201cA\/B\u201d bracket and punching their spot in the final round.<\/p>\n
Now, Hill and NDA will go head-to-head for the first time in competition as both enter the final day of competition. Competing in the State Farm Field House, the Hilltoppers will take the mat at 5:08pm while the Gators compete at 6:04pm.<\/p>\n
In addition, competing in Medium Game-Day II, NDA will perform at 9:51am at The Athletic Center Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
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Notre Dame Academy’s Medium Game-Day DII routine punched its ticket to Finals on Friday night, bypassing semifinals due to earning the top score in the “B” prelims bracket. (Annie DeBiase for the Advance\/SILive.com)(Annie DeBiase for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — Notre Dame Academy and St. Joseph Hill Academy, both competing in Small Varsity DII at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-118852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}