[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\nThe Plano East girls basketball team was an unstoppable force during the first half of District 6-6A play, a stretch that saw the Lady Panthers win all eight games.<\/p>\n
Through two games in the second half of district play, Plano East has shown no signs of a letdown.<\/p>\n
The Lady Panthers improved their district mark to 10-0 after cruising to a 79-28 road victory over crosstown rival Plano West last Friday.<\/p>\n
Arianna Robinson had 28 points to lead a balanced scoring attack. Nariah Witherspoon finished with 15 points. Julia Eiwo added 11 in the victory, followed by nine from Madeline Bankhead.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, Plano East defeated Princeton 62-37 to keep its perfect district record intact.<\/p>\n
After a close first quarter, Plano East\u2019s defense put the clamps on Princeton\u2019s offense. The Lady Panthers blitzed Princeton with a 23-3 scoring run in the second quarter to take a commanding 41-13 halftime lead. Plano East led 18-10 at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Robinson poured in 23 points to pace Plano East, followed by nine from Witherspoon, seven by Bankhead and six from Hailey Reed.<\/p>\n
Plano East, ranked No. 20 in last week\u2019s Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Class 6A state poll, improved to 22-7 overall.<\/p>\n
The Plano East boys also won both of their games last week \u2014 a 58-47 victory over Princeton and a 53-41 win against Plano West \u2014 following back-to-back losses to state-ranked Allen and McKinney.<\/p>\n
The Panthers seized control early against Plano West, opening last Friday night\u2019s game with an 18-8 first-quarter run. Plano East led 30-16 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Plano West cut into the deficit by outscoring the Panthers 15-9 in the third quarter, trimming the lead to 39-31. However, Plano East finished strong, holding an 18-10 scoring edge in the fourth quarter to pull away.<\/p>\n
Alijah Plummer scored a game-high 14 points to lead Plano East, followed by 13 from Moustafa Abualneel, eight by RJ Robinson and seven each from Alex Brewington and Jayden Parker.<\/p>\n
Plano East (20-6, 6-2) faced a tougher battle against Princeton.<\/p>\n
Princeton used a 19-15 scoring run in the third quarter to overcome a 24-20 halftime deficit and forge a 39-39 tie heading into the fourth quarter. Plano East regrouped and outscored Princeton 19-8 in the final period.<\/p>\n
Brewington led the Panthers with 13 points, followed by 11 from Plummer, eight from Keagan Ho and six each from Robinson and Jayden Parker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East sophomore Arianna Robinson scored 51 points across two games last week, both wins. Photo by Andy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-131439","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\/131439","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=131439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}