The Bonney Lake boys basketball team put a second-half scare into Enumclaw Friday before succumbing with a slow fade, 62-59.

Bonney Lake had lost 64-61 to Peninsula Feb. 1 and the two setbacks dropped the Panthers’ South Puget Sound League 3A mark to 1-9.

Peninsula also finished at 1-9, meaning the Panther and Seahawk cagers butted heads at a neutral site Tuesday for the right to claim the fifth and final seed into this weekend’s subdistrict action at either Lakes or Foster high school, depending on a number of variables.

First-year Panther coach Rob Smith said no one should count his team out just yet.

“We still have a pulse and against Enumclaw the other night we started accomplishing some of the objectives we’ve been trying to achieve all season long,” he said.

“Also, I am not making any excuses for last week’s loss to Peninsula at their place, but now that we are at full strength with some of our various and sundry issues resolved, I feel certain that we can beat Peninsula, particularly at a neutral location. We are simply playing better than we have all year right now and I am excited about us really coming together as a team,” he said.