{"id":121043,"date":"2026-01-13T07:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:53:55","slug":"panther-wrestlers-excel-at-the-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121043\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther wrestlers excel at The Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plano East\u2019s Darcy Gomez, left, stares at her Plano West opponent on Jan. 7. Photo by Andy Redmond \/ C&S Media<\/p>\n

By David Wolman<\/p>\n

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The Plano East wrestling team traveled to The Colony High School last weekend for the Cougar Classic.<\/p>\n

Plano East recorded four top-three finishes, with three wrestlers placing in the top three of their respective weight classes. The effort was highlighted by a first-place finish from Bilal Habib at 113 pounds. Habib won all three of his matches, including a 14-9 decision over Dallas Kimball\u2019s Isaac Mireles in the championship bout.<\/p>\n

Cameron Tran (106 pounds) and Ian Garcia (165) each finished second, while Andy Santamaria (190) earned a third-place finish. Santamaria cruised to a 13-2 major decision over Benbrook\u2019s Aiden Carpenter in the third-place match.<\/p>\n

On the girls side, Plano East\u2019s Jessica Mathew placed sixth at 155 pounds.<\/p>\n

For Plano East\u2019s girls, Nathalia Itzep (115), Sania Kasturi (125), Villanueva Mialey (140) and Darcy Milla Gomez (170) wrestled at The Colony. The Panthers\u2019 boys were represented by Michael Conner (126), Nithil Vijayakuar (132), Daniel Hartai (150), Joshua Hoeppner (157), John McKinley (175) and Cesar Hartai (285).<\/p>\n

Three days earlier, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, Plano East\u2019s boys fell 45-35 in a hard-fought crosstown dual against rival Plano West. The Panthers earned pins from Ozzie Thornton (144), Garcia (165), Santamaria (190), Yener Asan (215) and Habib (113), along with a 17-1 technical fall from Tran (106).<\/p>\n

That same night, the Lady Panthers lost 60-18 to the Lady Wolves. Plano East earned pins from Itzep (115), Kasturi (125) and Mialey (140).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East\u2019s Darcy Gomez, left, stares at her Plano West opponent on Jan. 7. Photo by Andy Redmond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-121043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121043","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=121043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}