Sutter's season finished

Without a sad face or sagging shoulders or even a tinge of regret, Isaiah Bohmann walked out of Sutter High's locker room for the final time as a player.

The scoreboard behind him displayed the 69-57 end to the Huskies' season and his high school career. But the 6-foot-7 standout didn't have time to lament or cry or make excuses, he was busy telling a group of freshman players how he would be helping them in the offseason.

Obviously losing to Colfax in the first round of the NorCal playoffs stung, but on Wednesday, Bohmann didn't show it. Instead, his final goodbye was a promise to help the future.

"I put it all on the floor and what happens, happens," Bohmann said. "I'm glad we had such a good year."

Bohmann, a four-year varsity player, scored 15 points, Leszek Ratajczak added 13 and Ben Eisenbarth chipped in with eight for the eighth-seeded Huskies, who strived to at least keep it interesting against a talented, tall and on-target Colfax squad.

The No. 9 Falcons, the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV runner-up, took a 13-13 game after the first quarter and turned it into a 12-point Colfax lead entering halftime and a 17-point margin going into the fourth.

But the Huskies remained stubborn. It earned them the respect of the opposing coach.

"They didn't quit tonight," Falcons coach Mike O'Connell said. "We were up by 20 and all of a sudden we were up by 10."

And at times, only eight. Sutter cut the lead to single digits with four minutes to play. But Ryan Salmonson, the Falcons' 6-foot-9 big-man answered by driving the lane, getting the basket and drawing the foul on Bohmann — his fifth.

Typical. In this game, the Falcons constantly seemed to have an answer. Every time the Huskies played their way back in, getting their students to chime in with that infectious "Suuuttteeer" cheer, Colfax would silence everyone with a big shot.

At 7:08 it was a 3-pointer by Joey Jergo, who the Huskies had no answer for en route to a game-high 20 points. Then with five and four minutes to go it was baseline swishes from Chase Mosier.

Still, this one looked like it would be a lot worse.

With 2:58 to go in the third, a 3-pointer from Austin Oberg put the physically dominant and by far sharper-shooting Falcons ahead 48-28. When the shot swished through the hoop, it was an exclamation point to a four-plus minute Husky scoring drought.

Sutter had the same problem in the second. In all, the Huskies were held scoreless for 8:20 through three quarters of play. Against a team like Colfax, having such scoring proved to be a death knell.

"There are no more average teams (left)," Sutter coach Bernie DiDario said.

But like his big man, there was no need for lament.

"I'm very proud," he said. "We just ran out of weapons tonight."