Lawrence High’s baseball players probably wished they had stayed in school Friday afternoon.

Instead, the Lions lost their second game in two days at the River City Baseball Festival, suffering a 12-2 run-rule-shortened setback to Ozark, Mo., at Hoglund Ballpark in a game characterized by Lawrence’s mental and physical miscues.

Lawrence High's Daren Parker delivers against Ozark, Mo. LHS lost, 12-2, Friday at Hoglund Ballpark.

Things got worse after the rout, as the Lions had to run sprints before an emotional team meeting.

“I told them I’m not a selfish person, but that was embarrassing for me to watch,” said LHS skipper Brad Stoll, whose squad slipped to 5-8 in part because of six errors. LHS has committed 11 gaffes in its last two outings.

“They have been afforded such a wonderful opportunity to be a part of this River City Festival with the arrangement to play at KU on a beautiful Friday afternoon, and they didn’t take advantage of that opportunity,” Stoll said.

During one inning of Thursday evening’s 11-9 loss to Rockhurst — the No. 1 team in Missouri’s largest class — the Lions gave up seven runs thanks to three errors.

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Friday, the Lions were flat from the beginning against the top 4A team from the Show-Me State.

LHS was lucky Ozark scored only one run off two early Lions errors.

Luckily, for the Lions, a Tiger runner was charged with an out after passing a teammate on the base paths.

Lawrence High's Matt Falk catches a pickoff throw against Ozark (Mo.) High's Brett Neill. The Lions lost Friday at the River City Baseball Festival, 12-2 in six innings.

Ozark tallied another run in the second and two in the third, then busted the game open with three in the fifth and closed the contest with five runs in the sixth. Costly errors in the last two innings helped advance the trouncing.

“Our defense hasn’t been playing the best,” LHS starting pitcher Daren Parker said. “We’ve been kicking the ball around too much, and our pitching hasn’t been the greatest, but it’s still been good enough to win ballgames. We just need to put everything together.”

Something Stoll said his squad certainly didn’t do, despite “Parker pitching his tail off.”

“He went into a fight with no one having his back, that’s kind of hard to do,” Stoll said of Parker. “That’s a good team, and we needed to come out and hook it up against them and we didn’t.”

LHS won’t have much time to retool. The Lions will be back at 2 p.m. today to take on Blue Springs (Mo.) at Ice Field.

“We’re going to change the way we approach the game, how we handle ourselves and adversity,” Stoll said. “Adversity happens a lot in baseball, and how we’ve handled that at times has not been good.

“But we’re not giving up, we’re going to continue to work as a program to get things changed.”