Sports

The following honors were presented to Canadian High School students in Monday night’s annual Athletic Awards Banquet, which was attended by an estimated 300 guests.

The year’s top awards went to Ella Walser, who received the Fighting Heart trophy, and Corbin Throgmorton, winner of the Fightingest Wildcat trophy. Brooklyn Cochran and Preston Miller were honored as Best All-Around Athletes, and Berkley Beedy and Trace Mitchell were celebrated as the Most Courageous Wildcat and Lady Cat.

Canadian’s Wildcat Junior Football League threw a two-day All-Star Academy Friday and Saturday at Wildcat Stadium that attracted boys and girls from all over the Panhandle. The budding young athletes performed a variety of strengthening and conditioning drills under the watchful eyes of volunteer coaches and Canadian Varsity football players. By the grins we saw on most of their faces, and the spirited encouragement of the coaching staff, we would guess the event was a grand success.

The Canadian Wildcats and Lady Cats swept their competitors last week in the District 1-3A meet held at Amarillo’s Tascosa High School. The Varsity and Junior Varsity boys and girls teams simply dominated the overall team championships: Canadian’s Varsity players piled up 71 team points over Spearman’s 22 and Dalhart’s 12, while the Junior Varsity boys and girls collected a total of 71 points versus Spearman’s 20 and Dalhart’s 19.

Canadian Lady Cats stole the lead late in the game in an 8-4 home field victory over Dimmitt Varsity Bobbies on Saturday, March 25. The game was tied at four with Canadian Lady Cats batting in the bottom of the fifth when Miranda Nunez singled on a 1-1 count, scoring one run.

Leah Moreno led the Lady Cats to victory by driving in four runs. Moreno went 2-for-3 at the plate, and drove in runs on a homer in the third and a double in the fifth.