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Fresh from football season, the Canadian Wildcat basketball team is off to a 1-1 start in the early portion of the year. Canadian downed Booker, 52-44, last week before falling at home to New Home, 68-15, on Tuesday night.

Canadian hurt itself by making costly special teams’ mistakes while not executing in the red zone. Abernathy made the Wildcats pay with a 37-26 regional semifinal win last Friday afternoon at Dick Bivins Stadium.

The Canadian Lady Cat basketball team closed the book on November in a major way, downing No. 1-ranked Panhandle from Class 2A, 43-28, on Tuesday night in Panhandle.

The 7th-Grade Lady Cats have been working, hard preparing for the season. There are only ten girls playing this year, so we don’t have a lot of depth. The girls have been doing a good job during practices and have improved greatly each and every week. Our first game was supposed to be against Dalhart but it was cancelled because Dalhart had a playoff game on that Thursday.

The Canadian Wildcats landed nine players on the 2021 3-3A Division II All-District football team, released on Monday. Canadian was the last team out of the district to be eliminated from the UIL Class 3A Division II playoffs, falling last Friday to Abernathy, 37-26, in a regional semifinal game.

Canadian appears to be finding its stride at just the right time following a blowout win over Sonora, 56-13, in a Class 3A Division II area round game Friday night at Tiger Stadium in Slaton. After limping into the postseason on a two-game losing streak, the defending state champions have found new life, putting together back-to-back playoff wins to advance to the regional semifinal round for a ninth straight year.

The Canadian Lady Cats extended their hot start to the season in Saturday’s home opener. After back-to-back wins over powerful Nazareth, and Lipan, Canadian was able to let up on the brakes quite early, dominating Dumas 68-27.

CHS cheerleaders announce Wildcat send-off route Friday morning Cheer on the Canadian Wildcats this Friday morning as they head out for the regional playoff versus Abernathy. There will be a send-off at 9 am.