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Canadian’s Chaynee Slavin is now the world champion pole bender for Team Oklahoma, following her three performances at the National Junior High Finals Rodeo in Perry, Georgia, last week. Slavin scored a combined 60.843 on her three pole runs, competing against 164 other riders.

In their second season of play, the Lady Cat Softball Club joined the Pampa Optimist Softball League and took first in the league with both the 10-and-under (10U) and 12-andunder (12U) teams. In lieu of a 12U bracket, the 12U team actually played up into the 14U bracket for the Optimists.

Slavin places second in first go-round of poles Canadian’s Chaynee Slavin placed second in in the first go-round in poles at the National Junior High Finals Rodeo, which continues through Saturday at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, Georgia. Her time was 20.232.

Canadian High School freshman Chaynee Slavin has qualified for the 2022 National Junior High Finals Rodeo, which will be held June 19-25, at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, Georgia.

The Children’s Fishing Tournament, hosted by the Wolf Creek Improvement Board, brought 190 kids to Lake Fryer on Saturday, June 4.

Jordan Lovins recently qualified as a team roper for his first trip to the College National Finals Rodeo, which will be held at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, Wyoming, June 12-18.

On Thursday, May 26, the Canadian Community Center’s Junior Wildcat travel baseball team (in photo above) wrapped up a 10-0 season and won their championship game, 15-2, against the Shamrock Arnold team. The Senior Wildcat (in photo on facing page) travel team also completed an undefeated season.

The 34th Annual Coors Cowboy Club Ranch Rodeo was held June 3-4 in Amarillo at the Tri-State Fairgrounds. Fourteen ranches from across the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico, and Oklahoma competed in the event.

Two local rodeo riders have qualified for this year’s Texas High School State Rodeo Finals, which began on Monday and will continue through Saturday, June 11, at Abilene’s Taylor Telecom Arena.