The number of teams still engaged in the playoffs of the women’s college summer league was reduced from nine to four last week in two nights of competition at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.

Based on their regular-season records, the top seven squads were slotted directly into the quarterfinal round, while the eighth and ninth teams squared off to claim the last spot in the bracket. The play-in game took place on July 21 and involved two teams made up of NCAA Division III players, eighth-seeded Team Sunburst and number nine Team Royal Crown.

Here the season ended for Royal Crown, which includes 2026 Germantown Academy graduate Jennifer Fox (who’ll play for Franklin & Marshall College). Sunburst won the play-in contest, 64-59.

The July 22 quarterfinal games saw the top three seeds advance to the semifinal stage. There was a minor upset in the fourth game, as fifth-seeded Team Electric Green came from behind to beat fourth-ranked Team Electric Pink, 66-58.

Number one Team Aquatic, made up almost entirely of women from Division II Holy Family University, proceeded at a leisurely pace to a 51-37 win over Sunburst, the eighth seed. Amy Ngo, a rising junior guard out of Upper Dublin High School, shared the game high of 13 points with a Holy Family teammate, forward Kara Meredith.

Jefferson University’s Division II players make up most of the roster for Team Blackstar, the second seed. They worked at a faster pace on July 22 to dispatch seventh-seeded Team Citrine Orange, already leading 45-24 at halftime on the way to an 83-61 victory.

Rising sophomore Caleigh Sperling led all scorers with 21 points, followed by seniors Tori Nigro and Emily Spratt, with 14 points apiece. The loss by Citrine Orange spelled the end of the line for two sisters who are GA alumni and Ursinus College graduates. Sarah DiLello was absent on the 22nd but her sibling Charlotte showed up, scoring seven points. A third GA grad, Maddie Vizza (Northeastern U. ’24) was also on the Orange roster, but was unable to attend many games this summer.

Sixth-seeded Team Jade (mostly from Arcadia University and other D III schools) hung in for the first quarter, only trailing number three Team Purple Haze 17-13 after the initial 10 minutes. Purple, with eight D II players on the roster, pulled away after that, winning 69-42.

Erin Daley, a Plymouth Whitemarsh alum and a rising senior forward at West Chester University, put up a game-high 17 points for Purple. The winners also got 13 points from Chestnut Hill College senior Bry Hicks, who made three three-point field goals.

Julia R. Masterman School graduate Jocelyn Goldstein, who’ll be a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University, scored 15 points for Jade, as did Arcadia junior Taylor Koenig.

On the first night of competition in the league this summer, June 16, Electric Pink romped over Electric Green, 88-53. Gabby Bowes, a 2025 GA graduate, scored four points for the Green in that game, but her Millersville University teammate, Holly Gohl, didn’t play.

For much of the July 22 rematch between the two teams, it seemed like the Pink pack would have its way once again, with its lead approaching 20 points. The tally was 42-27 at halftime, and when play resumed a “three” for Pink made it 45-27. After the game, Bowes recalled telling her team “We’ve got to starting making defensive stops.”

After this, Pink would score just 13 points the rest of the way. Green was back within three points at the three-quarter mark (51-48), and then they outscored Pink 18-7 in the fourth quarter.

Aside from Division II athletes Bowes and Gohl, Electric Green is made up of D III players, eight of them from Gwynedd Mercy University. Bowes scored seven points in the quarterfinal, and Green got a team-high 11 points from Azzy Crumpton, a Plymouth Whitemarsh alum who’ll be a senior at Gwynedd.

With Pink’s loss, the league bid farewell to forward Sylvie Harrington, who just graduated from Germantown Academy and is heading to Gettysburg College.