A Thursday deluge proved fortuitous for the Sumner Spartan cross country bunch, as both boys and girls finished the regular season with an untarnished 6-0 mark in South Puget Sound League 2A action.

While the SHS girls prevailed over White River 25-33, their male counterparts won 26-29 in what Sumner boss Kristin Martin termed, “a testimonial that spoke volumes about the SHS boys’ work ethic and desire to get better.”

In the girls race the key was the middle of the pack crossing the finish line in a bunch.

Spartan Gabby Phelps claimed second place in running an 18 minute, 25 second time. In addition to Tyeanne Lubking notching a fourth place with a clocking of 18:41, teammate Abby Hensler splashed across the stripe a heart beat later and Leah Engelhardt and Natasha Wilson were in hot pursuit at seventh and eighth place with respective times of 19:20 and 19:23.

For the boys it was a wild and crazy completion on the damp 2.7 mile grind as a half dozen scoring runners amassing the third through eighth places.

White River’s Kody Gould and Hayden Zirkle flew across the finish line in first and second, immediately followed by the swift Sumner High six. Coltin Tanner ended his effort one tick of the stopwatch behind Zirkle for third and Jose Hernandez, 15:32, and Corey Brandt, 15:33, weren’t far behind in fourth and fifth.

Josh Goodsell, 15:48, Jobe Layton, 15:55, and Reid Selmer, 16:02, were sixth, seventh and eighth.