The 4th and final week of the 2026 installment of the Summit Summer League is this Wednesday, August 26.
Want to check out games this week? They start at 6:30 p.m. at PSM Fieldhouse.
Click here to see the league’s program with a schedule, rosters and rules for week 4.
Last week, it was Team Bloom getting to 2-0 with a pair of fairly convincing wins, including a 97-point outing in Game 2, paced by the league’s official Player of the Week, Carson Waltke of East Noble. Now, we mix it all up again as teams and coaches flip to see who goes out strong in Week 4.
THE FINAL IMPACT
Somebody always makes a big impact in Week 4 that hasn’t been what you’d call one of the top players in the league. It has happened every year since the SSL’s inception in 2022, when Homestead’s Wyatt Weaver took control in the final week of play.
So who has that in them this week? Here are four of Bounce’s frontrunners to shine brightest in Week 4.
Cohen Sorg (Huntington North) has arguably been the best freshman in this year’s Summit Summer League. He has been a pretty consistent offensive threat, though just averaging 6.7 points per game. He has two games of eight points and one game of nine. He has been impressive as a freshman, but this last week could be a big increase in his production.
Malaki Christian (Tippecanoe Valley) has been a part of this league before, but the uptick in his offensive aggression is something to be noted this year. He is coming off a week where he had his 2026 single-game high of 12 points and also has become a steady hand, averaging seven points per game through three weeks.
Kingston Galentine (Heritage) is already a known commodity in the area after a really good freshman season with the Patriots. We haven’t seen him take over a game in this league yet, which makes us very intrigued as he heads into the final week.
Owen Roe (South Adams) is another kid who got his feet wet in this league last year. That looked to be paying bigger dividends offensively earlier in the league, but he hasn’t scored much lately. That said, Roe is a grind-it-out player, has played very hard and affected winning for whatever team he has been on, in part because he has become pretty consistent and reliable on the glass.
Will it be one of these four? Will it be someone different? Someone always goes out with a bang Week 4.
A HIGH-SCORING FINALE?
Scoring has been high all Summit Summer League long for teams and individuals. Last week, Team Bloom pushed close to 100 points in the second game, scoring 97 in a run-away victory.
But Team Bloom wasn’t the only group that elevated the offense in Week 3. The average scoring was 77.8 points per game for teams, by far the highest scoring of any week in the league. That was bolstered by the second hour seeing teams average 84 points per game. Teams hit a total of 55 three pointers, with a league peak of 7.5 threes made per team on average in Week 3’s second hour.
According to the Summit Summer League, there have been 30 games of 20 or more points by an individual in four years of the league (no stats exist for year one) and eight of those 30 have come this year. Scoring is coming in bunches in this Summit Summer League and two of the top five league “single season” scoring efforts are from this year as well, with Tayvon Stidams (Bishop Luers) and George Poiry (Bishop Dwenger).
GAME OF THE WEEK POTENTIAL
The first hour at PSM Fieldhouse this Wednesday will hold real potential for the best game of the week.
The 6:30 p.m. clash between Team Deming and Team Bloom will feature some of the best ballhandlers/point guards in the league and seven of the top 10 scorers through the first three weeks.
It will produce a big clash of the league’s top two leading scorers for Team Bloom with Stidams and Poiry battling Team Deming’s high-scoring duo of Carson Waltke (East Noble) and Cameron Summers (Bellmont), not to mention Deming also has Carter Middleton (Carroll) coming off a big game himself.
Last week, Stidams produced a 22-point game, Poiry a 24-point game, Waltke a 21-point game and Middleton a 27-point game.
The guard play will draw a lot of attention too, with Team Bloom’s Tommy McGuire and Zen Szaferski – both of Bishop Luers – sitting No. 1 and No. 2 in the league in assists per game. On the other side, Jake Stoy will be a steady presence for Team Deming, who can also use Middleton or Christian to handle the ball as well.
On top of the top-end performers, watch out for sneaky work from the likes of Team Bloom freshmen Cohen Sorg (Huntington North) and Zekiah Lewis (East Noble), who have both improved throughout the weeks of this league. Sorg has been a solid shooter and offensive player, while Lewis is one of just six players to average more than a blocked shot a game and scored nine in Game 2 last week.
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