After Bonney Lake High hosted its league opener against Enumclaw High and got bludgeoned 17-3, Panther skipper Mike Olson joked his assistant coaches had to talk him down from the ledge of a tall building.

But after Bonney Lake won its next few encounters, including handing Auburn Mountainview its first league loss of the season, Olson figured things weren’t so horrible after all.

Olson, whose team has since lost only to Franklin Pierce in a fluke outing and to White River in an absolute last-man standing altercation, watched his Panthers stand toe-to-toe against an undefeated Sumner High and win 11-7 after 10 innings.

With the score knotted at seven in the sixth inning, Panther senior Brian Davis, who played for Sumner in his sophomore campaign before changing over to the Bonney Lake camp, flat out took over the flow of the affair, as he made his presence known at the plate and from the pitcher’s mound.

Davis, the senior southpaw, threw five consecutive shutout innings and went 2-for-4 at the dish with two doubles and four runs batted in.

Bonney Lake had a lot of time to recover from the excitement of crushing its local nemesis, as that was the only game the Panthers played. The Panthers started with a Monday game against Enumclaw.