The Lyle/Pacelli football team came out flat Friday night, as it lost its home opener 49-20 to the visiting Quasars, a team which L/P had not seen before.

Lyle/Pacelli's woes began early in the game, when it allowed three unanswered Quasar touchdowns within the first 12 minutes to go down 21-0 with 3:39 left in the first quarter.

"We dug ourselves a hole in the first quarter that we really never recovered from," L/P head football coach Mark Buntje said.

In the opening of the second quarter, Lyle/Pacelli sophomore Chris Bergstrom's 75-yard run spurred by a Joey Greibrok hand-off put the first points on the board for L/P at the 11:38 mark. A two-point conversion on a David Judd run made it 21-8. The closing of the point gap was short-lived, however, when on the first play of the Quasar's next possession, Ryan Scheevel threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to receiver Mitchell Leopold and a successful two-point conversion quickly made the score 29-8.

Lyle Pacelli answered with a 57-yard touchdown run by Chris Bergstrom with 7:40 left in the third quarter. A failed pass play on the two-point conversion left the score at 29-14. Two minutes later, Southwest Star Leopold's 39-yard jaunt and Javier Jemenez's extra-point kick made it a 36-14 halftime score. The second half did not fair much better for Lyle/Pacelli, as it only scored one more time late in the fourth quarter, when Bergstrom ran for 62 yards and rounded out the final score.

"We were flat tonight and we were not ready to play. They beat us off the line both offensively and defensively," Buntje said.

Some positive aspects of the game were that L/P ran the ball well, tallying 318 total rushing yards on 42 carries to the Quasar's 299 yards on 41 carries. "Chris really ran hard tonight, nobody could on the other team could touch or catch him," Buntje said.

Joey Greibrok had only three completions out of 18 attempts for a total of 17 yards. Lyle/Pacelli punted give times, averaging only 29 yards per punt and racked up 345 total yards and allowed 421 defensive yards.

Lyle/Pacelli will travel to Southeast Conference rival Grand Meadow next Friday to face the Superlarks.