UIL-5A First Look Teams Impressive in Regional Semis

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Princeton also gave me an eyeful holding off a <strong>WT White</strong> squad led by talented sophomore <strong>[player_tooltip player_id='860108' first='Dani' last='Diaz'] </strong>who will also be added but speaking of being added,<strong> Randle's [player_tooltip player_id='815477' first='Alaysia' last='Cook'] </strong>has the right last name because she was<strong> COOKING</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>RANDLE</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["815477"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"Cook was a u0022nightmare to defendu0022 and it seemed like every time I would leave the game for another, my wraparound coverage had her hitting a shot to change the momentum or simply start a run. 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