The league-leading Sumner High baseball squad finally fell prey to the errors it has been plagued with all season and suffered its initial setback of the 2010 campaign April 6 to nemesis Bonney Lake, falling 11-7 in 10 innings.

In what turned out to be its solitary outing of the week, Sumner exceeded its usual average of three miscues per game, as the Spartans committed an unsightly five errors to help further mire down a contest in which their pitching staff relinquished 13 hits.

After Bonney Lake tied things up at seven with three runs in the top of the sixth inning, goose eggs abounded for the next three innings. When the battle entered its tenth frame the Panthers put up a four spot to bounce out to an 11-7 upper hand and Sumner couldn’t come up with an answer.

The loss left Sumner with a 6-1 mark in South Puget Sound League 3A play, 9-1 overall.

“Bonney Lake is a good team, which played especially well on our field that afternoon, but we basically beat ourselves with those five errors,” Sumner coach John Welker said.

“I don’t think the loss affected the team’s overall confidence that much,” Welker said. “As a coach I don’t mind the mistakes as long as I know the guys are playing defense as aggressively as they possibly can out there. You can’t let that kind of stuff get to you.”