{"id":146288,"date":"2026-02-01T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146288\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:23:11","slug":"lady-panthers-win-district-6-6a-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146288\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Panthers win District 6-6A title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano East head girls basketball coach Derrick Richardson raises the net in the air to celebrate the Lady Panthers winning the District 6-6A title Friday night at McAfee Gymnasium. Photo by Andy Redmond \/ C&amp;S Media<\/p>\n<p>By David Wolman<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/murphymonitor.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"2c5f5c435e585f6c4f5f414948454d5849544d5f024f4341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One by one, players for the Plano East girls basketball team walked up a ladder that was positioned underneath the basket on the East side of McAfee Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Each player, with scissors in her hand, cut off a piece of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Derrick Richardson cut off the last piece, lifted what remained of the net in the air, shook it a few times in a celebratory fashion before placing it around his neck.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers, who defeated Prosper Rock Hill 57-35 on Friday night to win the District 6-6A championship, are hopeful that is the first of many more nets that they will cut down this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of our goals from the beginning of the season, which was to win a district championship,\u201d said sophomore guard Arianna Robinson. \u201cThis is great, but we want to be able to cut down more nets and win a lot more games before the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed, and support local journalism, subscribe to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">community newspaper<\/a>\u00a0today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East head girls basketball coach Derrick Richardson raises the net in the air to celebrate the Lady&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-146288","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\/146288","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=146288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}