[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\nThe Lady Panthers basketball team opened district play with a 56-33 loss against Plano East this past Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Princeton started the game trading baskets with Plano East behind the scoring of Jada Childress and Rayleigh Williams, with each having a basket and a 3-pointer and Rayleigh hitting 3 out of 4 free throws in the first half<\/p>\n
After the first half, the Lady Panthers from Princeton only trailed 22-17.<\/p>\n
Despite the lone returning starter, Chandler Evans, warming up in the second half and contributing 3 baskets of her own, the offense struggled to keep up when Plano East took off with a 25-point 3rd quarter.<\/p>\n
Princeton\u2019s defense was tough in the first half and kept Plano East under control, however the Lady Panthers from Plano East came out with a big second half, scoring 25 points in the third quarter and adding another 9 in the fourth to put the game out of reach for Princeton.<\/p>\n
Princeton and Plano East each put 9 points on the board in the 4th quarter, but it was too much to overcome for Princeton.<\/p>\n
Last Friday, Prosper Rock Hill held a 34-18 scoring edge in the second half to rally the Blue Hawks to a 47-40 home win over the Lady Panthers.<\/p>\n
Princeton led 22-13 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Chandler Evans scored 12 points in the loss, followed by nine from Jada Childress and eight from Rayleigh Williams.<\/p>\n
Princeton struggled to contain Rock Hill\u2019s duo of Sofia Read (20 points) and Ashlynn Ntoung (18), who combined for 38 of the team\u2019s 48 points.<\/p>\n
Princeton is still trying to find its rhythm after losing two 4-year starters who are now playing Division I college basketball, who led the team to a 2nd-place district finish in 2024-2025.<\/p>\n
Princeton was looking to find its first district win when they faced Plano Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princeton sophomore Rayleigh Williams scored 17 points in last week\u2019s loss to Plano East. Photo by Jerry Winfrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-80934","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\/80934","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=80934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}