{"id":205296,"date":"2026-03-15T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:26:07","slug":"pitching-leads-panthers-to-two-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205296\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching leads Panthers to two wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano East senior Landon Leedy completes his wind-up during a March 11 home game against Princeton. 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=\"9eedeef1eceaeddefdedf3fbfaf7ffeafbe6ffedb0fdf1f3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kellan McWhinnie struck out five over seven shutout innings against four hits in a 3-0 win over Plano West from Rowlett High School on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A defensive play played a key role.<\/p>\n<p>With two on and one out for Plano West in the top of the third in a scoreless game, Plano East threw out a runner caught stealing second base for out No. 2 and a subsequent rundown ended the threat. <\/p>\n<p>Plano East rode the momentum and turned it into a three-run bottom of the third. Matthew Hyman scored the game\u2019s first run on a passed ball. The Panthers made it 3-0 with a two-run single by Andrew Valdez.<\/p>\n<p>The win comes two days after Plano East doubled up Princeton 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Clemens went a perfect 3 for 3 at the plate with three RBIs to spark the offense. He sliced a two-run double into right field that broke a 1-1 tie in the third inning. The hit came shortly after a dropped fly ball in left field by Princeton with two outs allowed the inning to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton made Plano East throw 144 pitches, but Landon Leedy and Colt Wisniowski made the necessary pitches, especially when Princeton had runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>With the two wins, Plano East improved to 13-3 overall, 3-0 in District 6-6A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East senior Landon Leedy completes his wind-up during a March 11 home game against Princeton. Photo by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-205296","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\/205296","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=205296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}