Sumner High School’s fastpitch team hit the ground dominating this past weekend, warming up with a close nonleague victory over Olympic High Saturday, and ending Sunday with a neat win over the Eatonville Cruisers.
Final score against Olympic was 10-9.
The final score against Eatonville was 8-4, giving the Spartans an early 1-0 in the South Puget Sound League 2A record book.
The game against Eatonville was slow going: Neither team could catch a break until Sumner scored two runs in the third inning. Then both teams remained runless through inning six.
Sumner scored six in inning six, then Eatonville scored two each in six and seven.
Pitcher Allie Sims broke some hearts with 11 strike outs. She additionally had four walks.
“(The) hitting styles of junior Nicolle Peterson, senior Megan Anderson, and sophomores Brittany Biller and Amanda Haines rounded out the Spartans to give them the victory over Eatonville,” coach Kristin Crawley wrote in a post-game round up.