Summit vs Mendham 3/7/2000

  1st 2nd 3rd 4th TOTAL
Summit 6 18 6 11 41
Mendham 11 16 18 9 54

Player FG 3PT FTA FTM POINTS
Stephanie Bruce 7 0 0 0 14
Dana Proper 1 2 1 0 8
Danielle Proper 3 0 3 2 8
Katie Tully 1 0 2 2 4
Liz Sheridan 0 1 0 0 3
Karen Jann 1 0 0 0 2
Ashley Holmes 1 0 0 0 2
Lauren Ertz 0 0 0 0 0
Sasha Orenzack 0 0 0 0 0
Lian Price 0 0 0 0 0
Shante Cofield 0 0 0 0 0
Game Totals 14 3 6 4 41
Summit knew they needed to play almost a flawless game if they were to defeat heavily favored Mendham. Unfortunately, things got off to a bad start when Mendham ran up a 7-0 lead. To make matters worse Stephanie Bruce picked up two early fouls and had to take a seat. By early in the 2nd quarter Mendham had built an 11 point lead before Bruce returned to the floor. Things began to turnaround when Dana Proper hit a 3-pointer. Then Eight points by Bruce and another 5 by Dana Proper cut Mendham's lead to 3 points. Mendham left the court at halftime a bit shaken.

When the 2nd half began Mendham's star, Kelly Suminski, really took charge and ran off 8 consecutive points and suddenly the lead was back to eleven points. Summit never really made a serious threat after that run.

Summit was called for 22 fouls compared to 12 for Mendham. In fact, Summit out scored Mendham from the field 37-36, but Mendham held an 18 to 4 advantage from the foul line. Unofficially, Stephanie Bruce led the Summit season scoring with 407 points and also was the teams leading rebounder. Danielle Proper finished second with 254 points and had the team's best free throw percentage at 71%. It is hard to measure how much these seniors will be missed.