[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\nPlano East won two games last week against McKinney to remain in playoff contention, winning the first game 4-2 and the second game 15-5, then earned a dominant 12-3 non-district victory over Bryan Adams on Senior Day on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
A throwing error put Bryan Adams ahead in the top of the first, but the remainder of the game was all Plano East.<\/p>\n
The Panthers took the lead for good after a two-run double by Hunter Azuma. The biggest hit of the game for Plano East was a two-run, inside-the-park home run by Landon Weeks in the bottom of the second. The lead grew to 8-1 after an Azuma RBI single.<\/p>\n
Andrew Valdez, Chandler Israel and Ty Tran combined to allow one earned run with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n
In softball, Plano East concluded its season Friday with a hard-fought 2-1 loss to Allen.<\/p>\n
Savannah Leonard limited a potent Lady Eagles offense to two runs (none earned) on three hits with three strikeouts, but the Lady Panthers came up just short in a 2-1 loss.<\/p>\n
Allen took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning.<\/p>\n
Plano East tied the score at 1-1 on an RBI single by Emerson Bailey in the top of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Allen regained a one-run lead with the help of an error and a subsequent RBI groundout in the bottom of the sixth.<\/p>\n
The Lady Panthers (7-9 in district) put the tying run on base in the top of the seventh when Avery Hopper was hit by a pitch. However, that momentum quickly stalled as a double play cleared the bases, and Allen clinched the win moments later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East\u2019s Landon Weeks sprints around third base for an inside-the-park home run against Bryan Adams on Saturday.\u00a0Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-258437","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\/258437","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=258437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}