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Triangle Pop Warner football, cheerleading teams will compete for national championships

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.

Triangle Pop Warner football teams advance to Nov. 29 regional championship games

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.

Triangle football, cheerleading teams advance to Pop Warner regionals

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)