{"id":118869,"date":"2026-01-11T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:02:07","slug":"battle-tested-plano-east-rallies-improves-to-8-0-in-district-6-6a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118869\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle-tested Plano East rallies, improves to 8-0 in District 6-6A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plano East senior Hailey Reed, pictured in previous action, scored 14 points in a 55-48 home win over Allen on Friday. Photo by Andy Redmond \/ C&S Media<\/p>\n

By Art Stricklin<\/p>\n

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Plano East used its battle-tested offense and tough defense to hang on for a 55-48 District 6-6A girls basketball win last Friday night at McAfee Gymnasium.<\/p>\n

The matchup featured the district\u2019s first- and second-place teams, both state-ranked and clearly the class of the field. Allen got off to a fast start and built an 11-point lead in the first quarter, but the Lady Panthers \u2014 as they have done most of the season \u2014 did not panic and slowly worked their way back, leading for much of the second half.<\/p>\n

Plano East improved to a perfect 8-0 in district play and 20-7 overall and is ranked No. 20 in the state among Class 6A schools.<\/p>\n

Allen took its only lead of the second half, 46-44, on a four-point play with 2:36 remaining, but Plano East quickly answered. The Lady Panthers got a three-point play from star guard Arianna Robinson with 2:03 left to regain the lead, 47-46, then sealed the victory moments later on a long crosscourt pass to a streaking Hailey Reed for an easy basket and a 49-46 advantage they never relinquished.<\/p>\n

Robinson led all scorers with 29 points, coming three days after she set a school record with 40 points in a win over District 6-6A rival McKinney. Reed added 14 points in the tight victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East senior Hailey Reed, pictured in previous action, scored 14 points in a 55-48 home win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-118869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}