{"id":169259,"date":"2026-02-18T05:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/169259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:35:07","slug":"palo-duro-defeats-lubbock-cooper-71-44-in-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/169259\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Duro defeats Lubbock Cooper 71-44 in regular season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The No. 24 Palo Duro Dons defeated the Lubbock Cooper Pirates 71-44 in their regular season finale at home Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kyron Brown led the Dons\u2019 offensive attack with multiple scoring plays throughout the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the second half, Brown drove to the basket for a contested floater and later converted a three-point play after drawing a foul on a drive to the rim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Dons controlled the game early, building a substantial lead in the second quarter. Cuda Clayton finished a fast break opportunity off a bounce pass from Kodi Abdelrahim, who had collected a defensive rebound after Gee Sanchez blocked a shot at the rim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock Cooper struggled to generate consistent offense against Palo Duro\u2019s defense. Will Marcinkowski provided one of the Pirates\u2019 few bright spots, scoring on a putback after Navari Jackson missed a shot attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victory gives Palo Duro momentum as they prepare for the postseason. The Dons finished the regular season with a 24-6 overall record and went 13-3 in District 3-5A for a third place finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The No. 24 Palo Duro Dons defeated the Lubbock Cooper Pirates 71-44 in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[254,2055,2060,2058,2057,168,170,169,2059,2061,2056],"class_list":{"0":"post-169259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breaking-news-video","10":"tag-live-speeches","11":"tag-live-updates","12":"tag-live-video","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-press-conference","17":"tag-real-time-coverage","18":"tag-video-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169259","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=169259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}