Last week marked the end of the regular season for the basketball players in the women’s college summer league, and no one was surprised that the top two seeds for the upcoming playoffs are the two teams which consist almost entirely of athletes from the same NCAA Division II schools.

Number one Team Aquatic is made up of nine players from Holy Family University, two players from other Division II schools and one Division III player (Brooke Evans, a 2026 Gwynedd Mercy Academy grad who will play for Stevens Institute of Technology).

Aquatic (8-0) was the only ballclub to beat second-seeded Team Blackstar (7-1), whose roster lists 10 women from Jefferson University and two additions from another DII school, New Jersey’s Georgian Court University. Jefferson, Holy Family and Georgian Court all belong to the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, as does Chestnut Hill College.

The only CHC athlete playing in the league this summer is rising senior Bry Hicks. She’s attached to Team Purple Haze (#3, 5-3), which consists mostly of players from five different Division II institutions.

Going farther down the list of playoff seedings for the league’s nine teams, the head-to-head tiebreaker came into play for teams with identical records.

Team Electric Pink and Team Electric Green were both 4-4, and the Pink pack got the nod for fourth seed thanks to an 88-53 victory over Green on the league’s opening night back in June.

Next came two squads with 3-5 records. Here, Team Jade claimed the sixth seed by virtue of a 92-60 win against Team Citrine Orange. The teams ranked eighth and ninth will engage in a special play-in game to decide which one would earn a spot in the quarterfinal round. In the regular season, number eight Team Sunburst edged ninth-seeded Team Royal Crown, 49-45.

On July 14, Electric Green had to play without Germantown Academy alumna Gabby Bowes (Millersville ’29), but that was a moot point as her squad lost by 33 points (75-42) to league leader Aquatic. The winners received a game-high 15 points from Ella Brown, 14 from Upper Dublin High School grad Amy Ngo, and 13 from Gwynedd’s Evans.

Rising Jefferson senior Emily Spratt scored 19 points and Georgian Court senior Karissa Smedley added 16 as Blackstar beat Citrine Orange, 81-32. GA alums Sarah and Charlotte DiLello posted three and two points, respectively, for the Orange outfit.

Jennifer Fox, a more recent GA graduate (’26) headed for Franklin & Marshall College, chalked up five points for Royal Crown, but Royal fell to Team Jade, 67-59. Royal only trailed by five points at the three-quarter mark, but they lost a little more ground in the final period.

Missing Gettysburg College freshmen Sylvie Harrington and Bailey Balkir (graduates of Germantown Academy and Gwynedd Mercy Academy, respectively), Team Electric Pink had to battle to overcome the Ursinus College combine known as Team Sunburst. Sunburst led 51-47 after three quarters, but Pink rallied in a 16-8 fourth quarter.

Taking the lead and then holding the ball much of the time in the waning moments, Pink prevailed 63-59. Pink’s Bridget Malloy, who’ll be a freshman at the University of Scranton, led all scorers with 24 points.

The Pinksters were missing even more players the following night. When only four of them turned up, the team officially forfeited to the Orange.

Electric Green did get GA’s Bowes back, and her 15 points helped the Green group give Blackstar a good run. Sleepy Jefferson Blackstar only managed to record eight points in the first quarter, and at halftime Green led 24-20 after getting two three-pointers, a layup and a free throw from Bowes.

A 19-9 third quarter got things turned around for Blackstar, which had seven different players find the basket. Spratt had 13 of her game-high 23 points in the second half. It was still a close call for the league’s number-two team, with a winning margin of just four points at 49-45.

Although always emerging victorious, Aquatic has had some lackluster first halves this summer, and this was true on July 15. They only led sixth-place Team Jade by six points at the intermission, 34-28. As in earlier games, the Holy Family-fueled franchise perked up after halftime, enjoying a 17-8 advantage in the third quarter en route to a 75-46 win.

Battling in the paint, rising junior guard Lola Ibarrondo scored 18 points for Aquatic on eight layups and two free throws. The game-high of 22 points was deposited by Jade post player Jocelyn Goldstein, a product of Julia R. Masterman School who’ll be a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University.

Meanwhile, Purple Haze pushed its record above the .500 mark and claimed the third playoff seed by shading Sunburst, 69-42. Anna McTamney, a graduate of Plymouth Whitemarsh and West Chester University (’25), rang up 12 points in the winning cause, and CHC’s Hicks had 11.