Sports

Canadian’s 3rd- and 4th-grade boys basketball team beat the Shamrock A-Team 16-13 in last Saturday’s Shamrock Basketball Tournament to win the tournament.

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 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.