Sumner High’s baseball season came to an abrupt close when it lost 7-6 to the Lindbergh Eagles in the battle of the Seamount and South Puget Sound League 3A’s No. 5 seeds held at the Russell Road Complex in Kent early Saturday in the subdistrict tournament.

Sumner trailed 6-2 going into the bottom off the fourth inning, mostly due to the Spartan pitching staff’s generosity, as it gave away seven bases on balls in the contest’s early going.

So the Spartans found themselves in desperate need of some runs, but even though they out hit the Eagles 11-8 in the wild affair that included to many free passes, bunting and stolen bases, Sumner couldn’t quite get the hitting machine stoked fast enough.

Sumner scored two runs in both the fifth and sixth stanzas but couldn’t produce any runs in the seventh and were consequently eliminated from the postseason picture.

Hitting wasn’t the problem as Kurt Swalander went 3-for-3 and Brad Falk and Alex Sloan both went 2-for-3.