[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\nThe landscape for District 6-6A boys basketball has undergone a seismic shift over the last week.
For Plano East, it couldn\u2019t have ended any better.<\/p>\n
The Panthers defeated McKinney 45-40 on Friday and, coupled with Allen\u2019s 70-60 road loss to McKinney Boyd later that night, finished the week alone atop the District 6-6A standings.<\/p>\n
Allen\u2019s loss to McKinney Boyd snapped a 27-game road district winning streak for the Eagles. As for Plano East (25-6 overall, 11-2 District 6-6A), its victory over McKinney extended its winning streak to seven games.<\/p>\n
In a nip-and-tuck contest throughout, the difference came during a 15-10 scoring run by Plano East that gave the Panthers a 37-34 lead entering the fourth quarter. McKinney (16-10, 8-6) had held a 24-22 advantage at halftime.<\/p>\n
Senior forward Moustafa Abualneel delivered in the clutch for Plano East, scoring a team-high 17 points. Alex Brewington added six points in the win, followed by five from Triston Pressley, four from Jayden Parker and three apiece from Donavan Woods and Luke Wasemiller.<\/p>\n
Plano East had the opportunity to further distance itself from Allen on Tuesday night, with a win putting the Panthers closer to securing their second district title in the past three seasons. Results were unavailable at press time. Plano East returns to action Friday at Princeton.<\/p>\n
Also last week, Plano East rallied from an early deficit to outlast Plano 61-52 on the road.<\/p>\n
Plano led 18-15 at the end of the first quarter, but Plano East responded with a 17-5 run in the second quarter to take a 32-23 halftime lead.<\/p>\n
Abualneel and Keagan Ho scored 11 points apiece to pace a balanced offensive attack for the Panthers. Parker finished with 10 points, while RJ Robinson added seven and Brewington chipped in six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East junior Dylan Glass (12) attempts to dribble the ball past Plano defender Brayden Jones on Feb.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-158662","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\/158662","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=158662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}