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The souvenirs from Florida won't include championship trophies, but North Carolina teams are guaranteed to bring home plenty of good memories from their trips to the Pop Warner Little Scholars Super Bowl and National Cheer and Dance Championships held Dec. 6-13 at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Fla.

The football competition included three football teams and four cheerleading teams from the Triangle's Consolidated Football Federation.

FOOTBALL

The championships' 64 teams - 32 each from Division I and Division II - come from eight Pop Warner regions and play in four age/weight classifications (Junior Peewee, Peewee, Junior Midget, Midget), according to the Pop Warner Web site. There are two divisions, Division I and Division II, each fielding 32 teams. Teams advanced through local and regional playoffs.

Two football teams from the Capital City Steelers and one from the Cary Chargers, along with four Triangle cheerleading squads, will be heading to the Pop Warner Super Bowl and National Cheer And Dance Championships this week. The teams, all from the Triangle’s Consolidated Football Federation advanced with their performances during the Nov. 29 Mid-South Regional Championships in and around Gastonia. The Pop Warner Super Bowl, the youth sports organization’s national championships, will be conducted Dec. 6-13 at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee, Fla.
Below is a list of all of the teams that advanced from the Mid-South Region, along with explanations of the divisions and groups. The information was gathered from Pop Warner Little Scholars.

Two football teams from the Capital City Steelers and one from the Cary Chargers will be heading to the Pop Warner Little Scholars Super Bowl next week, along with four Triangle cheerleading squads. The teams, all from the Triangle’s Consolidated Football Federation advanced with their performances during the Nov. 29 Mid-South Regional Championships in and around Gastonia. The Pop Warner Super Bowl, the youth sports organization’s national championships, will be conducted Dec. 6-13 at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee, Fla.

Eleven of the Triangle’s Consolidated Football Federation teams qualified for regional play, nine of those teams won first-round games to reach this past Saturday’s Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Region semifinals and six teams will play for regional titles Saturday in the Charlotte area. Most of the winning football teams, plus a variety of cheerleading teams, then will head for the Pop Warner Super Bowl in December in Florida.

POP WARNER FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Eleven teams from the Triangle’s Consolidated Football Federation advanced to regional play, and this past Saturday, nine of those teams won their games to reach this weekend’s Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Regional semifinals. Three Triangle teams received byes for this round, and the rest will play again on Saturday, hoping to advance to the regional championships Nov. 28-29 in Charlotte and the Pop Warner Super Bowl being played Dec. 6-13 at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Kissimmee, Fla.

POP WARNER FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
Eleven Pop Warner Little Scholars football teams from the Triangle’s Consolidated Football Federation have advanced to the regional playoffs after winning division championships, and two runners-up — both from the Wilders Grove Wolfpack — also were chosen for regional play. Teams in Divisions I and II are competing for berths in the national championships; teams in Division III end their seasons with the Mid-South Pop Warner Regionals.

FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS
With Saturday’s regional playoff opponent, time and site

Junior Pee Wee
Division I: Durham Fighting Eagles (vs. Virginia Beach Mustangs, 1 p.m., Nansemond River High, Suffolk Va.)
Division II: Capital City Steelers (vs. Churchland Tigers, 9 a.m., Kings Fork High School, Suffolk, Va.)
Division III: Tri County Panthers (vs. Portsmouth Inner City Lions or Chesapeake Knights, 9 a.m., Nansemond River)

Pee Wee
Division I: Cary Chargers Green (Virginia Beach Mustangs, 3 p.m., Nansemond River)
Division II: Durham War Eagles vs. Nansemond Suffolk Saints, 11 a.m., Kings Fork)

Junior Midget
Division I: Capital City Steelers (vs. Virginia Beach Mustangs, 5 p.m., Nansemond River)
Division II: Wake Forest Titans (vs. Bennetts Creek Warriors, 1 p.m., Kings Fork)