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Canadian High School’s Lady Cats ended a strong season by claiming a 12th-place finish at Saturday’s UIL Class 3A state crosscountry meet at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. Canadian finished with 248 points in the race. Whitesboro won the team state championship with 90 points.

The Lady Cat cross-country team will close the season out when they compete at the UIL Class 3A state cross-country meet at 8:30 am on Saturday, Nov. 5, at Round Rock’s Old Settlers Park.

Canadian took care of business in more ways than one during a 66-7 blistering of Tulia at Younger Field in Tulia last Friday night. First off, the Wildcats gained a measure of redemption, settling a tough loss to the Hornets last season.

The Lady Cat basketball team kicks off its schedule this year on the heels of a historic 2021-22 season. Last year’s team carried the ranking of No. 1 in Class 3A most of the year by amassing a 35-2 record—a new school standard for the most victories in a single season—and earning a run to the Region I-3A tournament championship game. They are back, and expectations are once again sky-high for the Lady Cat program.

With only one more game left in the season, Canadian’s sub-varsity teams won another shootout—this one in decisive fashion, by handing the Tulia Hornets a series of three consecutive goose eggs. SEVENTH-GRADE WILDCATS The seventh-grade Cats have one more hurdle—a home game tonight against Dimmitt— to reach an undefeated district championship, and a perfect season, after clocking the Tulia Hornets in a 46-0 knockout last week.

The Canadian Wildcats are headed back to the postseason after claiming a lopsided 56-13 victory on Friday night at Wildcat Stadium. The Wildcats posted their fourth consecutive win, improving to 6-2 overall and taking full command of District 3-3A Division II with a perfect 3-0 record.

Laurie Ezzell Brown | The Record Canadian’s JV and CMS football teams scored a perfect triple against the Friona Chieftains last Thursday, sweeping the field in a series of dominating victories. Those seventh-grade Cats are still working on a perfect season, and were not about to let Friona get in their way.

The Canadian Wildcat Junior Football League’s fifth- and sixth-grade and thirdand fourth-grade teams finished their regular game schedule last weekend with backto- back losses to Sayre, Oklahoma, and will close out the season with a two-day tournament this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29-30. The fifth- and sixth-grade Wildcats ended the season 4-2, and the third- and fourth-grade Cats finished with a 5-1 record. The end-of-year tournament will be held in Wheeler, with fifth- and sixth-grade Cats will taking on Clarendon in the first round which starts at 11 am on Field 2. The third- and fourth-grade Wildcats kick off at 2 pm on Field 1 against the winner of the first-round contest between Wheeler and Shamrock.

Canadian’s Lady Cats are headed back to the UIL state cross-country meet for a second straight year. The Wildcats didn’t advance, ending their superb season during Tuesday’s Region I-3A cross-country meet at Mae Simmons Park in Lubbock.