{"id":24386,"date":"2025-10-28T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24386\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:06:08","slug":"mckinney-lions-vs-plano-east-panthers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24386\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinney Lions vs. Plano East Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/mckinney\/mckinney-lions\/football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McKinney<\/a> is on  a five-game streak of home losses dating back to last season, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plano East<\/a> a six-game streak of away losses also dating back to last season. However, someone&#8217;s due for a change in luck  on Friday. The McKinney Lions will welcome the Plano East Panthers  at 7:00  p.m. Plano East took a loss in their last  matchup and will be looking to turn the tables on McKinney, who comes in off a win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">McKinney is headed in fresh off scoring the most  points they have   all season. They took down McKinney Boyd 29-15  on Thursday. The Lions haven&#8217;t had any issues with the Broncos recently, as the game was their fourth consecutive  victory against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Meanwhile,  it was a proper cat-fight when Plano East duked it out with Plano on Thursday. The Panthers fell just short of the Wildcats by a score of  17-15. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Texas football rankings (they are ranked 251st, while the Wildcats are ranked 85th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">McKinney will have to contain <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/travis-agee\/?careerid=5heltcqd9dstd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Travis Agee<\/a> as he made an impact in Plano East&#8217;s last game. He rushed for 105 yards and two  scores on only 14 carries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Plano East didn&#8217;t go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/jordan-stafford\/?careerid=vhhad154nevaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jordan Stafford<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/mj-haggan\/?careerid=0uuuo3ruqnel5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> MJ Haggan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:6\"> Plano East&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 1-7. As for McKinney, their win bumped their record up to 3-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:7\"> McKinney barely slipped by Plano East in their previous meeting  back in November of 2024, winning  24-23. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was the Panthers&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-east-panthers\/athletes\/jackson-hays\/?careerid=bcf2fugi5n133\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jackson Hays<\/a>, who threw for 254 yards and a pair of  touchdowns, and also rushed for 67 yards on only five carries. Now that he won&#8217;t be playing  on Friday, will it be easier for the Lions to walk away with another win? There&#8217;s only one way to find out.<\/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":"McKinney is on a five-game streak of home losses dating back to last season, and Plano East a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-24386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386","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=24386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}