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The Canadian Lady Cats went up against No. 4 Idalou Monday evening in a tough bi-district playoff at Amarillo High. The young Canadian team couldn’t find it’s footing, losing 69-37 against the seasoned Idalou Lady Cats.

The highly-anticipated rematch between the Canadian Wildcats and the Bushland Falcons finally went down in an epic battle for the District 1-3A Championship. It was worth the price of admission.

In the debut of their second season as an official UIL sport at Canadian High School, the Lady Cat softball team struggled against a more experienced Lady Bobcat squad, but showed notable progress after last week’s back-to-back scrimmages. In photo at top, this Lady Cat varsity player made good use of her at-bat, driving the ball just beyond the pitcher’s reach to advance to first base. In photo at left, this Lady Cat runner slides into third, taking advantage of a bobbled catch. Canadian lost the opening contest to Sunray. Next up for the Lady Cats is a road trip tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 21) to Memphis. On Saturday, Feb. 22, Canadian will host Booker for a home game starting at 12 noon, followed by another home game versus Memphis on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 4 pm.

In what was a nail-biter of a game on Tuesday, Feb. 11, the Lady Cats fought the Spearman Lynxettes for the second seed going into the playoffs next week. The game was an epic battle between two rivals with the Lady Cats coming up just short. Before the tipoff, there was a an almost

In Tuesday’s home basketball games against Spearman, students and fans showed up wearing pink to support Lawana Pulliam, the Director of Instructional Technology and Curriculum at CISD and wife of Superintendent Lynn Pulliam, who recently announced that she is fighting breast cancer.

It was a great weekend for the Canadian Middle School Lady Cats. Canadian’s 7th (top) and 8th-grade Lady Cats both won last weekend’s River Road Tournament in fine style, striking out Muleshoe, Friona and Tulia teams to take their division trophies.

Coach Cay Parnell gives last-minute tips to the Lady Cat Softball Team for Saturday’s Varsity vs JV scrimmage, in preparation for next Tuesday’s season opener at Sunray.

Everyone expected a tough, intense contest on Tuesday night, Feb. 11, when the Canadian Wildcats and Spearman Lynx faced off, and that’s exactly what they got.

Spectators at this week’s first Lady Wildcat softball scrimmage of 2020 were wrapped in blankets, scarves, gloves and warm hats, and the geese that flew overhead were pointed resolutely south. But Canadian’s softball team warmed up their bats and their throwing arms and toughed it out against Sunray, buoyed a beautiful new baseball field with just-finished artificial turf, and the same sense of mission that convinced Canadian ISD school officials to make softball an official UIL sport here. In photo at top, Ashleigh Rowden got the team’s first hit of the season, and scored the first run when teammate Yazmin Jara (at left) knocked one into left field to send Rowden home. Jara stole two bases, but failed to finish the circuit and was stranded at third when the Lady Cats struck out. Canadian will scrimmage Perryton at 1 pm this Saturday, Feb. 8, here at home, and have two more scrimmages tentatively planned for Monday or Tuesday, and Saturday, Feb. 15, but not locked in on the schedule. Their first official game of the season will start at 4 pm, Monday, Feb. 17, in Sunray.

Canadian vs. River Road (G)