Shadowcats finish July 4 game against Cane Cutters, with Sunday rematch set at Veterans Field

The Sherman Shadowcats and the Acadiana Cane Cutters finished a Texas Collegiate League game in Sherman on Saturday, July 4, and the two clubs were set to meet again the next night at Veterans Field, the Cane Cutters organization said in a social media post. The holiday date matched the league's newest home team against a former league champion, though the final score was not available in accessible league or team records at publication.

The game appeared on the league's official 2026 schedule as a July 4 contest with Acadiana designated the visiting club and Sherman the host, and the listing carried it as an official Texas Collegiate League game.

After the game, the Cane Cutters told followers that a final had been recorded from Sherman and that the team would be back on the field against the Shadowcats the following night at Veterans Field.

The score itself could not be confirmed. The result was attached to the Acadiana post as a graphic, and the image was not readable in the indexed version of the page available to the newsroom. The league's schedule verifies that the matchup took place as an official game, not how it ended. Individual statistics, including any batting line for Sherman's Zach Fjelstad, could not be matched to a primary record before publication, and this report does not assert them. A Herald Democrat account of the game could not be confirmed as a source of record before publication either. The GvilleTX newsroom reviewed the league schedule and the Acadiana post on Sunday and will update this story if a verifiable box score becomes available.

Saturday's game came in the Shadowcats' first summer of existence. The Texas Collegiate League announced Sherman as a new franchise for the 2026 season and added Abilene at the same time, expansion the league said brought its membership to eight teams. The Independence Day home date against Acadiana fell within that first year of play.

The visitors carried a championship past into the series. The league's official history lists the Cane Cutters as Texas Collegiate League champions in 2022, so the holiday game paired a first-year host with a club that has won the circuit within the past four seasons.

For Cooke County readers, the series sits close to home. Sherman is in neighboring Grayson County, east of Gainesville, and the Shadowcats' arrival this season put a league franchise within a short drive. According to the Cane Cutters' post, the teams were scheduled to continue the series Sunday night, July 5, at Veterans Field.