{"id":358657,"date":"2026-07-02T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358657\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:40:39","slug":"plano-east-gains-experience-at-tabc-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358657\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano East gains experience at TABC Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano East incoming junior guard Arianna Robinson averaged 27 points per game at the TABC Girls Showcase. 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=\"91e2e1fee3e5e2d1f2e2fcf4f5f8f0e5f4e9f0e2bff2fefc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plano East\u2019s girls basketball team will enter the upcoming season with one returning starter.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why head coach Derrick Richardson was eager to see how well his team would mesh at the TABC Girls Showcase in Bryan.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Lady Panthers went 0-3 at the Showcase, they gained valuable experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers opened with a 36-30 loss and then came up three points short in a 58-55 loss to Pflugerville Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>Plano East concluded the Showcase with a 79-44 loss to Houston Kinkaid.<\/p>\n<p> Robinson averaged 27 points, 3.0 assists and 2.3 steals per game. Julia Elwo had a 10-rebound game. Kamaria Marcy, a move-in from Kansas, averaged 6 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists. Emma Shafer averaged 5.2 points, 2 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.3 steals. Gabby Archer, Alexis Wong and Meerah Azhar all played quality minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we got a lot of good out of the weekend,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cWe saw some flashes of what I think we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plano East was without incoming sophomore Olivia Woods, who missed all of last season with an injury and continues to battle a knee injury. <\/p>\n<p>Richardson is hopeful that Woods can resume basketball activities in mid-to-late July.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed and support local journalism \u2014 subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Murphy Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East incoming junior guard Arianna Robinson averaged 27 points per game at the TABC Girls Showcase. Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-358657","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\/358657","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=358657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}