Beaty picked up his third foul with 5:15 remaining in the opening quarter. He\u2019d sit until the second half with the Reapers leading 25-21.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had the determination in my mind and I knew we couldn\u2019t lose to Sandwich,\u201d Beaty said. \u201cI had to step up in the game and to make that big shot. And then we get the ball back when they turn it over and Alan Contreras drives and dumps to me on the block and that\u2019s game. Anything can happen in Plano-Sandwich games. It\u2019s always a close game, always fun to watch. I\u2019m just glad we pulled it out with the win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beaty (10 points, 5 rebounds) was whistled for his fourth foul with 43 seconds remaining. Griffin Somlock (27 points) made the ensuing free throws to give Sandwich its first lead at 52-51 since 4-2.<\/p>\n
Plano (4-3, 1-0) then turned the ball over. The Reapers sent Somlock to the line again where he made it 54-51. But Beatty\u2019s trey from the corner tied it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just figuring it out, and he put so much work in the weight room, got so much stronger,\u201d Plano coach Kyle Kee said. \u201cHe\u2019s really struggled to shoot the ball at the start of the year and he\u2019s a great shooter. He put a big arc on that thing and it just dropped in, and was beautiful. And we finally found the skip pass against their 1-3-1. I\u2019m so proud of our guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
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High school Basketball: Sandwich at Plano Plano’s Jayden Zepeda (22) puts up a shot during their basketball game between Sandwich at Plano Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025 in Plano. (Gary E Duncan Sr. for Shaw Local)<\/p>\n
Contreras (7 assists, 2 points) also got into foul trouble early, picking up his third foul with 1:59 left in the second quarter. EJ Treptow (9 points, 9 rebounds) picked up two fouls in a five-second span, including his fourth with 3:01 left in the third quarter for Sandwich and took a seat.<\/p>\n
Senior Kevin Martinez (13 points) led the Reapers in scoring. <\/p>\n
\u201cI knew they were going to call all those fouls so I tried to get him to foul me as much as I could,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cThere were some different faces because of all the fouls and a lot of tension between the players and I know nervousness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sandwich (1-5, 0-1) looked in trouble early.<\/p>\n
An inbounds play trey from Ethan Taxis (12 points) came in the midst of a 10-0 run. The final basket came on a steal and layup from Braylon Schmidt for a 16-4 Reapers lead with 1:27 left in the opening quarter.<\/p>\n
The Indians battled all the way back. Somlock\u2019s pull-up jumper 12 seconds before halftime pulled the Indians to within 25-23.<\/p>\n
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High school Basketball: Sandwich at Plano Sandwich’s Griffin Somlock (4) drives past the defense of Plano’s Alan Contreras (1) during their basketball game between Sandwich at Plano Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025 in Plano. (Gary E Duncan Sr. for Shaw Local)<\/p>\n
Nick Michalek\u2019s three-pointer midway through the third quarter sliced it to 31-30. Michalek (3 assists, 4 steals, 4 rebounds) scored all 10 of his points in the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe picked up two fouls in the first and I sat him the rest of the way because I knew we\u2019d need him to score in the second half,\u201d Sandwich coach Matt Chalfin said. \u201cAnd he\u2019s a really good defender and he was all over Ethan Taxis who is a super talented player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turnovers were significant, because of the 23-14 differential with Sandwich committing more.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeams have given us a lot of fits pressing us and I thought we handled it really well for a rivalry game,\u201d Chalfin said. \u201cI thought they did a wonderful job. It\u2019s still too many turnovers, so we\u2019ve got to get better, get those fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Beaty found himself on the bench for most of Tuesday night in foul trouble. The Plano sophomore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35359,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-82746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-illinois-high-school-boys-basketball","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82746","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=82746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}