CHANUTE ? Not many baseball teams can surrender seven runs in one inning and still win by eight.

The torrid Lawrence Raiders can.

Chris Coleman stroked five hits, Tyson Corley and Brett Lisher four hits apiece, and Taylor Martin slugged two home runs as the Raiders crushed Pittsburg, 19-11, in the winners’ bracket of the AAA American Legion state baseball tournament Sunday evening.

“We knew it would be a good day to hit,” Raiders coach Tim Hill said. “It was hot, humid, and the wind was blowing out.”

The Raiders slammed 25 hits off four Pittsburg pitchers, including starter Mark Smith, who had played in the Kansas Shrine Bowl on Saturday night in Emporia.

The defending-state-champion Raiders also had a new face in the tourney in Brett Lisher, who joined the club Sunday for the first time in about 10 days. He had been on the East Coast at a family vacation.

Lisher hardly missed a beat, stroking four singles and driving in three runs.

“I guess it’s been about a week and a half since I’d played,” he said, “but I felt pretty good at the plate.”

He looked pretty good, too, and so did his teammates.

Martin had a double in addition to his two home runs and drove in three runs. Corley also drove in three runs with a double and three singles. And Tyler Blankenship had two RBIs on three singles.

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The Raiders, who will play for the championship at 1 p.m. today, had just one sinking spell, but it was a doozy. They were on the verge of run-ruling Pittsburg in the top of the seventh, leading 14-3.

Instead, Pittsburg erupted for seven runs on just four hits. The Raiders made two errors, and starting pitcher Jake Hoover, who was coasting after surrendering only a three-run homer to Kenny Maus in the second, walked three and threw two wild pitches.

“We let our guard down,” said Coleman, who had three doubles and a pair of singles and drove in a pair of runs. “Whenever we let down, teams are quick to let us know. This is a lesson we can take into tomorrow.”

In essence, though, all that seven-run inning did was give the Raiders two more opportunities to swing their white-hot bats.

“After that seven-spot, a few heads were looking down,” Martin said, “but everybody wanted to get up and hit again.”

Indeed, the Raiders scored four more runs in the bottom of the seventh and another in the eighth. Grant Meisenheimer recorded the final seven outs to save the win for Hoover.

Hill plans to send Matt Wingert to the mound in today’s championship game and, if another game is needed on Tuesday, Hill said he’d come back with Corley, who started and won Friday’s tourney opener against Arkansas City.

“We’re set up nicely,” said Coleman, the Raiders’ first baseman. “It’ll be tough for the team coming out of the losers’ bracket, but we know we could have been in another position totally.”

Coleman was referring to Saturday night’s 9-7 come-from-behind victory over Hays in the second round. Hays led 7-0 going into the seventh, but the Raiders rallied for nine runs in the seventh and eighth.

“If we swing the bats like today and play defense,” said left-fielder Martin, who hit his eighth and ninth homers of the season, “we’ll be OK.”