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Each year, the Canadian Education Foundation chooses a Canadian High School Honor Team to recognize during Homecoming. This year’s honor team was comprised of members of the 1975-76 football team, as well as their support team of coaches, cheerleaders, drum majors, and twirlers. Those who attended and were honored during pregame ceremonies on Friday night were Wildcat football team members Joe Anderson; Bill Barnard; Shaffer Baxter; Donald Hill; Bruce Pickens Sr.; Steve Schafer; Jim Shirey; Kevin Wilson; Marty Carr; Mike Schafer; Roy Lee Todd; Robert Wilson; Gary Bob Hutcheson; Doug Gaston (deceased), who was represented by sister, Cindy Talley and niece, Ashlee Salinas; Ken Adcock (deceased), who was represented by son, Miles Adcock, and family, and sister, Cindy Moore. Also honored were cheerleaders Neysia Peil Wilson and Cynthia Peil Donnell, and head twirler Angela Heusel Reasor. HOMECOMING PHOTOS BY ALAN HALE (ALAN79014.SMUGMUG.COM

Canadian avenged its only loss from last season, thanks to a second-half surge of 20 unanswered points that lifted the No. 2-ranked Wildcats past Iowa Park, 40-21, last Friday night at Wildcat Stadium.

Canadian’s junior varsity Wildcats went the distance with the Iowa Park Hawks on Thursday. The Cats shrugged off that 204-mile road trip and went to work, pounding out a 28-8 advantage in the second half, and punctuating it with a 48-22 win.

Thursday night scramble results Last Thursday’s scramble ended with an 8-under-par, posted by the winning team of Kyle Miller, Levi Huntress, Tyler Ellison, Jeff Cullender, and Cheri Huntress. Harry Sims and Kaitlyn Russ won the men’s and women’s long drives.

The Wildcat cross-country teams competed in Borger on Saturday, in their first meet of the season. The varsity boys placed fifth out of 12 as a team, led by freshmen Juan Vargas, who finished 15 out of 100 in 18:27; Jose Vargas, who crossed the line 32nd in 19:26; and by junior Jaxtyn Valenzuela, who cleared the course in 19:08 to finish 28th.

Canadian picked up where it left off from last year’s state championship season by dismantling West Texas High 69-6 in the season opener Friday night at the Comanches’ Stadium in Stinnett. The No.

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