SEATTLE – The Bainbridge High boys varsity basketball team came up just three points short in their second postseason match up last week as Bishop Blanchet escaped with a 55-52 win.

The game — held at Garfield High last Wednesday, Feb. 11 — was tied 10-10 at the end of the first quarter, but Blanchet began to pull away in the second. The Braves outscored the Spartans 15-14 to take a 25-24 advantage into the break.

At the start of the second half, it was the Spartans who leapt ahead (18-15) to put the score at 42-40, and it was only a low-scoring finale quarter that saved the day for Blanchet.

Bainbridge was outmatched 15-9 in the fourth.

Despite that, Spartan senior Trent Schulte was the game’s scoring leader. He managed 17 points.

Fellow Spartan senior Oskar Dieterich finished the night with 15 points.

No Blanchet player managed to score more than 13.