Prosper High School and Rock Hill High School both marched in the evening finals of the Bands of America North Texas Regional Championship on Saturday, the contest Prosper ISD hosted at its Children's Health Stadium, and finished 10th and 11th in a field of 12.
Prosper High scored 78.600 in finals, according to the recap posted by Music for All, the nonprofit that runs Bands of America. Rock Hill, also a Prosper ISD campus, scored 78.400, two-tenths of a point behind. Walnut Grove High School, the district's third entry, scored 72.850 in the morning preliminaries and placed 18th of 28, outside the 12 finalist spots.
How the top of the field finished
Hebron High School won the regional with 88.600 and also took the awards for outstanding music performance, outstanding visual performance and outstanding general effect. Flower Mound High School was second at 87.550 and Marcus High School third at 86.650.
The rest of the finals order, according to Music for All:
- 4th: Bentonville (Ark.), 83.575
- 5th: Argyle, 83.525
- 6th: Wylie, 82.925
- 7th: McKinney, 80.650
- 8th: Lone Star, 80.000
- 9th: Aledo, 78.900
- 10th: Prosper, 78.600
- 11th: Rock Hill, 78.400
- 12th: Braswell, 76.650
Inside the Prosper scores
Prosper High's band came in eighth after preliminaries with 78.300, then added three-tenths of a point at night but slipped two places as Lone Star and Aledo moved past it. In finals, Prosper's music performance average was 16.05 and its visual performance average 15.65, with 30.90 in general effect.
