{"id":481877,"date":"2026-10-30T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481877\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:46:09","slug":"plano-reaper-superlights-advance-to-super-bowl-after-undefeated-regular-season-local-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481877\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Reaper Superlights Advance to Super Bowl After Undefeated Regular Season | Local Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Plano Reaper Superlights are headed to the Super Bowl after earning a 40-0 victory over Peotone in the playoff semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Plano finished the regular season undefeated, highlighted by shutout victories over Reed-Custer, Bourbonnais, St. Ann and Sandwich. Plano earned a first-round playoff bye before returning to action with their shutout of Peotone.<\/p>\n<p>The Superlights will face Wilmington in the Super Bowl Sunday, Nov. 1, at 10 a.m. at Reed-Custer in Braidwood. The team is scheduled to depart from the Plano High School parking lot at 7 a.m., with a police escort still pending.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s commitment has continued beyond game days, as all players attended optional practices ahead of the championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Ryan Hodges leads the team alongside coaches Jordan Noel, Octavio Nevarez, Mario Alanis and Miguel Quinonez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Plano Reaper Superlights are headed to the Super Bowl after earning a 40-0 victory over Peotone in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31460,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-481877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-local_sports","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481877","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=481877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}