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The Canadian Wildcat Junior Football League’s fifth- and sixth-grade and thirdand fourth-grade teams finished their regular game schedule last weekend with backto- back losses to Sayre, Oklahoma, and will close out the season with a two-day tournament this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29-30.

Canadian’s Lady Cats are headed back to the UIL state cross-country meet for a second straight year. The Wildcats didn’t advance, ending their superb season during Tuesday’s Region I-3A cross-country meet at Mae Simmons Park in Lubbock.

Canadian stayed hot last Friday night, shaking off a slow start to roar past the Spearman Lynx, thanks to a 42-3 rout at Lynx Stadium.

Canadian’s cross-country teams have had plenty of time off to rest up before their biggest meet of the year takes place this coming week.

Canadian’s JV Wildcats took charge in the first quarter of last Thursday’s hometown showdown with the Lynx and never blinked.

In a game filled with momentum swings, the Canadian Wildcats reeled off 35 unanswered second-half points to pull away from a gritty Childress squad and open District3-3A Division II with a 62-28 victory from a rainy Fair Park Stadium on Friday night.

Both of Canadian’s varsity cross-country teams made a clean sweep through the District 1-3A cross-country meet on Wednesday afternoon at the Palo Duro Creek Course in Spearman to claim the district championship.

Laurie Ezzell Brown | The Record Canadian Middle School’s seventh-grade Wildcats shook off the bye week they had just enjoyed and went right back to work, claiming their first district win last Thursday against the Childress Bobcats and extending their season winning streak to 4-0.

Laurie Ezzell Brown | The Record In their first district contest here last Thursday, Canadian’s junior varsity Wildcats lost a tough one 1318 to the Childress Bobcats. After a scoreless first quarter, the two teams each scored on fumbles by their opponents.

ISAY RAMIREZ (10) BULLS HIS WAY OUT OF A PACK OF RANDALL RAIDERS What a difference a fewweeks makes.