Canadian Secures District Crown

By Chris Doelle
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Updated: November 12, 2018

photos Alan Hale

Canadian notches 49-24 Win Over Spearman

CANADIAN – The Spearman Lynx gave the Canadian Wildcats a legitimate challenge in the first half of what would be the 33rd consecutive district win for Canadian, but couldn’t contain Canadian’s high powered, air raid style offense in the second half. This game also marked the 7 th consecutive District Championship for the Wildcats.

The Lynx brought a cord of fire wood to stoke the fire of a rivalry that goes back two decades, but they should have brought two, because they didn’t have quite enough to get through the second half. No doubt, the physicality Spearman played with the whole night was impressive. The Lynx looked the #4 LSG ranked Wildcats square in the eyes and made sure everyone there knew they meant business.

Even after Canadian RB Hayze Hufstedler, fresh back from a foot injury, burned Spearman with two explosive TD runs (one for 58 yards) in the first quarter, the guys in icy white and purple trim were not intimidated. With Spearman working inside the 10-yard line, goal-to-go, they were given new life on a 3rd and 9 that had been stopped short by a penalty giving a new set of downs. The next play, RB Jack Wilkerson bounced outside of an off-tackle power play to find the end zone.

After each team chalked up a 3-and-out, Canadian reeled off another score on the second play of the next drive with QB Casen Cavalier tossing a 55-yard TD to WR Garrison McCook. Then the Lynx went to work with a 72-yard, 11-play drive that burned six minutes of clock, capped off by a 1-yard TD run by RB Milan Salinas with 22 seconds left in the half, closing the gap on the scoreboard to just one TD. No doubt that hundreds of #TXHSFB fans checking scores on smart phones were raising their eyebrows to see Spearman within a TD of Canadian at the half, 21-14. Was there an upset in the making? Everyone loves a good upset with the exception of the team subject to being upset.

Hopes of an upset are dashed.

The third period saw the Wildcats come out and dash any hopes of an upset with two more scoring drives. One of those TDs was a 32-yard run by WR Trent Evans, who actually hurdled a tackler to give him the sideline all the way to the end zone in the last minute of the quarter. The Lynx were only able to answer with a 34-yard FG by Arturo Camacho and the 35-17 scoreboard began to seriously douse the rivalry fire they had lit in the first half.

Canadian RB Caleb Martinez had his number called to finish off two more scoring drives in the fourth quarter. Lynx RB Salinas ran in one more TD from 2-yards out freezing the scoreboard at 49-24, Canadian.

PLAYOFF MATCHUPS

Spearman will face a strong Cisco team next week as the lower seed from District 3-3A-DII in the Bi-District round. Canadian will square off against Anson in the first round, which is scheduled on Thursday, November 15, at 7:00 P.M. at Bobcat Stadium in Childress.

Jerry Brunson for Lone Star Gridiron
@CHSWildcatNews

Stats courtesy of Ron Shrader, Canadian ISD

	1Q	2Q	3Q	4Q	Final
Canadian	14	7	14	14	49
Spearman	0	14	3	7	24

	Canadian	Spearman
First Downs	20	17
Rushing Yds	281	95
Passing Yds	222	208
C - A - I	18-23-0	17-29-1
Total Yds	503	303
Punts-Avg	2-39	4-28
Fumbles-Lost	2-0	0-0
Penalties	10-95	2-10

Scoring

1st Q

C – Hayze Hufstedler, 10 yd run (Edgar Salazar kick failed) 9:00
C – Hayze Hufstedler, 58 yd run (Casen Cavalier run, 2-pt conv good) 3:14

2nd Q

S – Jack Wilkerson, 4 yd run (Arturo Camacho kick) 9:20
C – Garrison McCook, 55 yd Cavalier pass (Salazar kick) 6:39
S – Milan Salinas, 1 yd run (Camacho kick) 0:22

3rd Q

C – Casen Cavalier, 4 yd run (Salazar kick) 6:00
S – Arturo Camacho, 34 yd FG 1:27
C – Trent Evans, 32 yd run (Salazar kick) 0:53

4th Q

C – Caleb Martinez, 9 yd run (Salazar kick) 10:02
C – Caleb Martinez, 17 yd run (Salazar kick) 7:51
S - Milan Salinas, 2 yd run (Camacho kick) 1:25