[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\nThe Plano East Panthers boys basketball team took one more step toward the playoffs with a 52-47 victory over the McKinney Boyd Broncos on Thursday, Jan.\u00a022. It was a game that saw the Panthers, who currently sit in second place in District 6-6A behind the soaring Allen Eagles, play well-rounded basketball, thanks mostly to the defiant play of sophomore guard Alexander Brewington.<\/p>\n
Brewington, whom Plano East (22-6, 8-2 District 6-6A) head coach Matt Wester called \u201cpoised\u201d after the game, poured in 18 points in the victory, 10 of which came during the crucial moments of the fourth quarter. McKinney Boyd (15-10, 4-5) was right on the Panthers\u2019 tail, and every basket Brewington made proved necessary in delivering the team\u00a0to\u00a0a win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just impressed with the way Alexander [Brewington] kept his poise at the end of the game,\u201d Wester said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a very emotional kid. Because they\u2019re good at defense as well, it was kind of frustrating, but you didn\u2019t see that on him. \u2026 He just kind of held his head and carried us, got to the free-throw line, and made some much-needed baskets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East sophomore Alexander Brewington (3) scored 18 points in a 52-57 win over McKinney Boyd on Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-136837","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\/136837","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=136837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}