Lawrence High second baseman Andrew Stewart fields a ground ball in a Lions' game against Blue Valley North on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at LHS.

Held to only three hits against Blue Valley North on Saturday, Lawrence High’s baseball team didn’t have any room for mistakes.

The Lions did their best to make the most of their limited offense, but a couple of errors and walks were costly in a 5-4 loss at LHS.

In the fifth inning, the Lions lost their one-run lead through a pair of throwing errors. The inning started with a leadoff walk issued to BV North’s David Accurso and became more trouble when Jaxson Dubinsky reached on an error during a sacrifice bunt.

After a wild pitch put runners on second and third, the Lions committed a two-base throwing error on a ground ball, trying to throw out Dubinsky going to third.

Instead of the game tied with an out on the ground ball, the Mustangs took a 5-4 lead when the throw went into the BV North dugout.

“Between walks and just not taking care of the baseball, that’s what cost us,” LHS coach Brad Stoll said.

The Lions (1-4) had their best opportunity to tie the score in the sixth inning when senior Brad Kincaid drew a leadoff walk. He moved to second on a passed ball and would’ve advanced to third on a fly out to center field, but was called out when one of the umpires ruled he did not tag up on the catch. Stoll was ejected when arguing the call between innings.

“You’re trying to scratch and scratch to get a run across, so I thought we had a little momentum coming our way,” Stoll said. “Obviously, it just didn’t work in our favor.”

The Lions had to fight back from the start when BV North senior Cooper Marks hit a three-run home run over the right-field wall in the top of the first inning.

Lawrence High baseball coach Brad Stoll, left, congratulates Devin Lauts after Lauts' fence-clearing hit was ruled fair and a home run by an umpire in a Lions game against Blue Valley North on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at LHS.

In the bottom half of the first, after LHS senior Daonte Lowery hit a leadoff infield single, sophomore clean-up hitter Devin Lauts crushed a fastball for a two-out, two-run homer.

It was the first career home run for the 6-foot-1, 200-pound first baseman, which carried with the wind and curved around the right-field foul pole.

“I knew it had the length, but I didn’t know if it was going to be in between the poles or not,” said Lauts, who stopped running when he initially thought the ball went foul. “It barely got it.”

Stoll added: “He’s been swinging the bat — all year — real well. We track hard contacts pretty closely, and he’s at the top of the board on that. He squared a couple of balls up the other night that got caught, so it was nice to see him get rewarded for that.”

After the first inning, the Lions had only one hit, a single by junior Jacob Unruh in the fifth inning. But they plated two runs across in the third inning when the Mustangs paid for their own error.

Lowery drew a walk, and sophomore second baseman Andrew Stewart, who made several highlight-reel stops in the field, reached on error. Lowery scored on a ground out by Kincaid, and Stewart scored on a wild pitch for a 4-3 lead.

Kincaid, the fearless LHS closer, kept the Lions within a run, escaping a one-out jam with runners on second and third in the sixth inning. In the seventh, the Mustangs loaded the bases with one out, and Kincaid struck out the next two batters.

“We gave them too many free chances,” Stoll said. “It just bit us in the back side and that’s unfortunate.”

The Lions will travel Tuesday to Olathe South.

BV North 300 020 0 — 5 8 1

Lawrence 202 000 0 — 4 3 2

W — Cooper Marks. L — Daonte Lowery (0-2). S — Jack Albright.

2B — Brennan Masterson, BVN. HR — Devin Lauts, LHS; Marks, BVN.

LHS highlights — Lauts, 1-for-3, 2 RBI; Lowery, 1-for-2, walk, 2 runs; Jacob Unruh, 1-for-2; Brad Kincaid, 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K.