Spartans finish regular season second after White River loss | Sumner Girls Basketball

The Sumner girls basketball team finished second in the South Puget Sound League, 2A earning a spot in the subdistrict playoffs that includes Seamount and SPSL teams.

The Sumner girls basketball team finished second in the South Puget Sound League, 2A earning a spot in the subdistrict playoffs that includes Seamount and SPSL teams.

The Sumner girls ended the regular season with a 12-2 record.

The girls play Franklin Pierce at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Foster High located at 4242 S. 144th St. Tukwila.

Franklin Pierce finished the season with an 8-6 SPSL 2A record in fourth.

The Spartans closed out the season last week with one loss and one win.

Friday at home Sumner fell to league-leading White River 54-36.

Jamie Lange lead the numbers for the Spartans with 10 followed by nine from Brenna Allsop and six from Anna Hurd.

White River scored 15 to Sumner’s 11 in the first quarter, 13-7 in the second led by the Hornets. The third White River out scored Sumner18-5 and the fourth the Spartans topped the Hornets 13-8.

Sumner defeated the Washington Patriots 48-30 Jan. 29.

The Spartans apparently decided to make a victory sandwich, beginning and ending the game with lackluster quarters and playing two fierce quarters in the middle. Quarterly scores were 10-11, 13-7, 15-2 and 10-10, respectively.

Lange was the high-scoring player of the night with 14 points. She was followed by Nicole Miller at 10.