Sports

Canadian’s track-and-field teams had one final tune-up in Childress last Thursday before this weekend’s District 1-3A Track Meet in Bushland. Both the Wildcats and Lady Cats placed second as a team at the Bobcat Relays, which were held at Fair Park Stadium in Childress.

Canadian’s Wildcat and Lady Cat varsity tennis players cleaned up at Tuesday’s district tennis tournament at Pampa, claiming both the boys and girls team championships by decisive margins. The varsity girls-doubles teams picked up both the silver and gold medals.

It’s been a rough start for the Canadian Lady Cat softball team to open District 1-3A play. The Lady Cats watched the game slip away early last Thursday with a 10-0 loss against the Dalhart Golden Wolves before falling at home to No. 11 Bushland 26-0 on Saturday.

The Canadian track-and-field teams had impressive showings at the Lynx Relays in Spearman last Friday afternoon, and both teams came away with convincing team championships. The Lady Cats stacked up an eye-opening 237 points, 101 points better than secondplace Childress (136).

Canadian’s girls golf team sits in third place and the boys A-team sits in fourth place after the first of the two rounds at the District 1-3A Golf Tournament at the Ross Rogers Golf in Amarillo on The Lady Cats shot a first-round score of 464. Canadian sits 31 strokes behind Bushland (433) for second place and 65 shots back of round-one leader Dalhart (399).

Canadian’s track-and-field teams took over 20 athletes to compete at the Panhandle Worker’s Track-and-Field Meet last Friday at Panhandle High School. Neither the Wildcats or Lady Cats took their full teams due to spring break.

Canadian defeated Sunray’s Lady Bobcats 9-6 on Monday, thanks to a walk-off triple. The game was tied at 6, with the Lady Cats batting in the bottom of the eighth, when Lilly Bradford tripled on a 1-1 count, scoring three runs.

On Monday, March 7, the Canadian Lady Cat golf team competed in Childress. Briley Merket finished the day with 98. Three Lady Cats ended with neck-and-neck scores—Emily Kauk (112), Kamey Kirby (115), and Mylee Adcock (117). Tayln Wright and Haley Baker rounded out the team with scores of 123 and 129, respectively.