Six-foot-five-inch junior Frankie Bamford scored 14 points, but it wasn’t enough as the La Jolla Country Day (LJCD) Torreys suffered a tough 55-53 loss to the eighth-ranked Francis Parker Lancers in a boys Coastal League basketball game played at LJCD on Feb. 18. “Lately, we’ve been coming out kind of flat,” said Country Day coach Ryan Meier.  “We were like that again tonight.” Despite not being at full strength, the Torreys (15-11 overall, 5-5 in the Coastal League) still jumped out to a quick 15-13 lead at the end of the first quarter behind the play of Bamford, six-foot-three-inch senior Ryan Watt, 6-foot-2-inch senior Alex Perez and 5-foot-10-inch senior Jake Hershfield. “We didn’t have any energy this evening,” said Meier. “No energy at all.”  In its defense, Country Day did muster up enough energy to go on a 9-4 run to close out the second quarter, knotting the contest up 27-27 at halftime.  Seven of the nine LJCD points came on free throws from the charity stripe by 6-foot-6-inch sophomore Ziad Damanhoury, 5-foot-five-inch senior Max Hershfield and 6-foot sophomore Sage Burmeister.  After the intermission, Francis Parker (19-7 overall, 9-1 in Coastal League play) outscored the Torreys 17-11 to open up a 44-38 advantage at the end of the third quarter. Down by two points in the final seconds of the fourth quarter, Country Day had a chance to tie it up, but a jump shot by Bamford didn’t fall, sealing the victory for the Lancers. Burmeister finished with 10 points for LJCD.  Meanwhile, Francis Parker was led by a game-high 25 points from 6-foot junior guard Dalante Dunklin and 5-foot-10-inch sophomore guard Connor Polk added 11. “Hopefully by the time the playoffs start, we’ll have figured out how to win and play completely the opposite from the way we were tonight,” said Meier. “Maybe we needed to get it out of our system. We don’t want any part of playing the way we did this evening.” The second-seeded Torreys will play host to the winner of the Guajome Park Academy-Imperial game in the CIF Division IV quarterfinal playoffs on Feb. 26. Scores from other games: Boys: The Bishop’s School 64, Army-Navy Academy 63; Mission Bay 52, La Jolla 38; Scripps Ranch 55, University City 54 Girls: La Jolla Country Day 90, Francis Parker 24; The Bishop’s School 78, Horizon 56; Mission Bay 75, La Jolla 21; University City 53, Scripps Ranch