The Lyle/Pacelli baseball team showed its good side and it also showed what it needs to work on when it split an SEC-doubleheader at Riverland Saturday.

The Athletics (3-9 overall) beat Houston 13-8 and lost to Mabel/Canton 12-0 in five innings.

Michael Lonergan pitched the win against the Hurricanes as he struck out 13. L/P jumped out to a 10-0 lead after five innings, but Houston scored six in the fifth to avoid the 10-run rule.

“It was a great game and we were into it,” L/P head coach Reid Olson said. “(Lonergan) was real good on the mound.”

L/P was held to four hits and it committed five errors in the loss to M/C.

“We had an opportunity to catch eight fly balls and we only caught two of them,” Olson said. “We can’t do that and we showed our youth in this one.”

L/P 13, Houston 8

L/P pitching: Michael Lonergan, 7 IP, 9 H, 2 BB, 8 ER, 13 K

L/P hitting: Skylar Meyer, 4-for-5, triple, 2 RBIs, 2 R; Carter Guthmiller, 1-for-4, RBI, R; Lonergan, 3-for-4, 3 R; Aaron Juenger, 1-for-3, triple, 2 RBIs, R; Matt Kasel, 0-for-3, R; Jordan White, 2-for-3, 2 R

M/C 12, L/P 0

L/P pitching: Kasel (L), 1 1/3 IP, 3 H, 1 BB, 8 ER, 1 K, 3 HBP; Kenneth Gray, 2 2/3 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 ER

L/P hitting: Jake Nelson, 1-for-1; Guthmiller, 1-for-3; Sean Shapiro, 1-for-1; Kyle Meyer, 1-for-2