{"id":40257,"date":"2025-11-07T23:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:19:06","slug":"lady-panthers-advance-to-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40257\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Panthers advance to regional final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Plano East volleyball team, pictured in previous action, is bound for the Region I-6A Division I final after defeating El Paso Eastlake in three sets on Friday at Lubbock Coronado High School. Photo by David Wolman \/ C&S Media<\/p>\n

By David Wolman<\/p>\n

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After not being able to make it past the third round of the playoffs in each of the previous two seasons, the third time proved to be the charm for the Plano East volleyball team.<\/p>\n

The Lady Panthers continued their playoff journey with a 3-0 sweep (28-26, 25-16, 28-26) of El Paso Eastlake at Lubbock Coronado High School on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

In the first set, Eastlake forced set point after a kill from one of its middle blockers, but Plano East fought back. Senior Simone Heard had a kill on the ensuing point. Four points later, junior Dakota Huynh posted a service ace to give the Lady Panthers a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five match.<\/p>\n

After cruising to a nine-point win in the second set, Plano East struggled in the early portion of the third set. Eastlake took a 14-6 lead, but the Lady Panthers quickly cut into the Lady Falcons\u2019 lead. Plano East took fought off set point and took a 27-26 lead after a Kyla Slaughter block. The Lady Panthers completed the comeback and sweep following a block by sophomore Jaiden Boutte on the ensuing point.<\/p>\n

Plano East (31-10) advances to face the winner of tonight\u2019s match between Allen and Byron Nelson in the Region I-6A Division I final, set for next week at a time and location to be determined.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, see the Nov. 13, 2025, print or digital edition of the\u00a0Murphy Monitor. Subscribe<\/a>\u00a0today and support local journalism in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Plano East volleyball team, pictured in previous action, is bound for the Region I-6A Division I final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-40257","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\/40257","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=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}