Sports

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.

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.

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.

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)

The biennial University Interscholastic League reclassification and realignment for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years was released Monday, Feb. 3. The new alignments, established by enrollment figures submitted to the UIL by its member schools in October, will serve as the football, basketball, and volleyball districts for the next two school years.