{"id":14171,"date":"2025-10-21T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14171\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:08:06","slug":"rock-hill-princeton-battling-much-larger-plano-schools-for-6-6as-final-two-playoff-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14171\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Hill, Princeton battling much larger Plano schools for 6-6A\u2019s final two playoff spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Prosper Rock Hill made the playoffs for the first time in program history last year, finishing in a tie for third in District 6-6A while setting a school record for most wins in a season as it was 6-5. Now in its sixth season of varsity football, Rock Hill has a shot to make the playoffs again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/game\/2025\/134550\/plano-east-vs-prosper-rock-hill\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/game\/2025\/134550\/plano-east-vs-prosper-rock-hill\/\">Rock Hill beat Plano East 24-7<\/a> last week as Nate Vincent threw for 250 yards and a touchdown, Bryce Allen had six catches for 108 yards and Rock Hill scored two touchdowns on fumble returns. It was the third win in four games for Rock Hill (4-3, 3-3) after an 0-2 start in district, and one of those victories was against Plano West, another team in the thick of the 6-6A playoff race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Friday\u2019s Allen at Prosper game will determine the 6-6A title, but there are four other teams within a half-game of each other in the battle for the third and fourth playoff spots. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/10\/20\/long-suffering-high-school-football-team-has-more-wins-than-in-past-three-seasons-combined\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/10\/20\/long-suffering-high-school-football-team-has-more-wins-than-in-past-three-seasons-combined\/\">Princeton (5-2, 3-2) has a half-game lead<\/a> over Rock Hill, Plano (4-3, 3-3) and Plano West (4-3, 3-3) with three weeks left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Rock Hill is helped by the fact it has already played Allen and Prosper, the two undefeated district leaders. Rock Hill has just two games remaining, against Plano and McKinney.<\/p>\n<p>High School Sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">The latest news, analysis, predictions and more for each season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Plano West beat Plano, while Plano beat Princeton and Princeton beat Rock Hill. It could come down to tiebreakers to determine who advances to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uiltexas.org\/files\/alignments\/24_26_Rank_Order_2_1.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uiltexas.org\/files\/alignments\/24_26_Rank_Order_2_1.pdf\">Plano, the state\u2019s ninth-largest school<\/a> with an enrollment of 4,493, has made the playoffs just once in the last seven seasons. Plano West, which has the state\u2019s third-largest enrollment at 5,337.5, is looking for its first playoff appearance since 2020 and has made the playoffs just that one time in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">They are battling two of the smaller 6A schools for those last two playoff spots. Rock Hill\u2019s enrollment is 2,373 and Princeton\u2019s is 2,379.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more high school sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our FREE HS newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosper Rock Hill made the playoffs for the first time in program history last year, finishing in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1243,300,1227,160,162,161,1262,1264,1374,1251,1253,1252],"class_list":{"0":"post-14171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-allen-school","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-high-schools","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news","14":"tag-plano-school","15":"tag-plano-west-school","16":"tag-princeton-school","17":"tag-prosper","18":"tag-prosper-rock-hill-school","19":"tag-prosper-school"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","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=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}