Maybe the Raiders should change their nickname to Bashers.

Lawrence’s Legion baseball team will head into this weekend’s AAA state tournament in Pittsburg on an astonishing offensive roll. In their last six games, the Raiders have scored 108 runs, or a staggering 18.0 per game.

“We have all the components,” Raiders coach Shaun Edmondson said. “We don’t have one kid who’s an easy out.”

Whether they can maintain their torrid pace – they scored 68 runs in the three games of last weekend’s zone tournament at Ice Field – remains to be seen.

“I don’t know if we can continue to score at that clip,” Edmondson said, “but you never know.”

The Raiders (29-17) will open against Blue Valley Northwest at 11 a.m. today at Pittsburg’s JayCee Park. If they win, they’ll play again at 5 p.m. Saturday against the winner of today’s Olathe South-Arkansas City game.

The other four teams in the tourney are Hays, Andover, Buhler and host Pittsburg. Salina, the team that ended the Raiders’ four-year run of state titles last summer, didn’t qualify.

The Raiders boast a lusty team batting average of .353. Eight players are hitting .327 or better, led by first baseman Joe Kornbrust’s .411 average. Catcher Jake Green is next at .403, followed by third baseman Clint Pinnick .389, right fielder Travis Sanders .379, infielder Aaron Rea .372, center fielder Matthew Abel .361, infielder Hunter Scheib .357 and DH Ben Wilson .327.

Perhaps more impressive is the Raiders’ team on-base percentage of .499. And when they’re on the bases, the Raiders are hardly a station-to-station team.

“We can wreak some havoc on the bases,” Edmondson said.

The Raiders have stolen 216 bases – an average of nearly five a game – with leadoff hitter Abel accounting for about a fourth of them (52). Rea has 28 thefts and Scheib 27.

Edmondson was undecided about his first-game pitcher, saying he would choose between Tom Schuh (2-2, 6.32 ERA) and Drew Hulse (8-2, 5.40), and save Caleb Gress (6-3, 2.52) for the second round.

Schuh, a left-hander, struggled early in the summer, but tossed a seven-inning perfect game against Tonganoxie in the zone tourney.