The Sumner High School Baseball team seems to be stuck following the philosophy of “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,” after another week of mixed performance on the diamond. From April 4 to April 10, the boys came up half-and-half against Steilacoom, White River, Fife and Eatonville, bringing their South Puget Sound League 2A record to 3-3. They were scheduled to play Franklin Pierce Wednesday, but the game was rained out.

An April 4 game against Steilacoom brought in a handy win. Though the first three innings were slow-going, with only one run in the bottom of the second, the Spartans pulled off a mind-bending 10 runs in the fourth inning to create what proved to be an insurmountable lead and a 14-8 game. Luc Powers-Hubbard had five at-bats, two runs, two hits, and 4 Runs Batted In. Gage Whitehead had three at-bats, two runs, two hits, and 2-RBI.

An April 6 game against White River saw the Spartans shut out 9-1.

The Monday, April 9, outing against Fife stung only slightly less at 2-1. Fife scored an early run in the second inning, matched by Sumner in the fourth. But a Fife fifth inning run just wasn’t matched.

The next day’s away game against Eatonville was the most fruitful yet, netting an 8-0 win. The Sumner boys took two runs in the third, two runs again in the fourth, and four runs in the fifth. Every hit a Spartan batter took resulted in a run.

The Spartans are scheduled to butt heads again with Fife on Friday, on the Trojans’ home turf.