{"id":179358,"date":"2026-02-25T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179358\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:01:34","slug":"eight-straight-road-victories-for-plano-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179358\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Straight Road Victories for Plano East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/softball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plano East<\/a> came out on top against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/mckinney\/emerson-mavericks\/softball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emerson<\/a>  on Friday thanks in part to the team&#8217;s impressive eight-run third inning. The Panthers blew past the Mavericks 13-3. With that  victory, the Panthers brought their scoring average up to 6.6  runs per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/savannah-leonard\/?careerid=k205i4tt2aq55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Savannah Leonard<\/a> made a big impact while hitting and pitching. She looked comfortable on the mound,   tossing five innings while giving up  three earned runs off   seven  hits. She has been consistent recently: she hasn&#8217;t  given up  more than one  walk in three consecutive appearances. She was also solid in the batter&#8217;s box,  going 1-for-3 with two  RBI and one  run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> In other batting news, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/julia-wilson\/?careerid=fb7u8m72trqk4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Julia Wilson<\/a> was a standout: she went 2-for-3 with three  runs, one  triple,  and one  stolen base. That  triple marked the first that  she has  hit this season. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/avery-hopper\/?careerid=taoum9te3htff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Avery Hopper<\/a>, who  went 2-for-4 with two  triples, three  runs,  and two  RBI.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID9da89874b6124c1ea6f37a600182e9b3\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772006494_21_6d2d144e-65dd-4974-aeee-f5dd6e8e73e7.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID6a2fdae805f647d6991b41cb84cc3e25\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\">Panthers<\/p>\n<p>02\/20\/26 @ Emerson13-302\/17\/26 @ Princeton19-605\/07\/25 @ Trinity4-005\/01\/25 @ South Grand Prairie5-304\/21\/25 @ Allen9-5<a id=\"ID3d5e3b2fc1234cb8bc49977b33405d87\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/softball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 3 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Plano East&#8217;s win was  their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season, which  pushed their record up to 2-5-1. Those  road  victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they&#8217;ve averaged 9.1 runs this season. As for Emerson,  they are  on  a  four-game losing streak  that has dropped them down to 3-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Plano East has already played their next matchup,  a  12-6  defeat against V.R. Eaton on the 20th. As for Emerson, they also wasted no time getting back out on the field and have already played their next  contest,  an  8-3  loss against Lovejoy on the 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East came out on top against Emerson on Friday thanks in part to the team&#8217;s impressive eight-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-179358","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\/179358","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=179358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}