Lawrence High junior Landon Moseley, center, celebrates his game-winning hit with teammates Jake Green, left, Jack Bush, back, and Chris Parker. The Lions defeated Blue Valley, 8-7, on Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark.

After playing for six innings and more than two hours, Thursday’s baseball game between Lawrence High and Blue Valley turned into a one-inning affair.

For the Lions, that was good news, as junior pitcher Tanner Kilmer struck out the side in the top of the seventh, and junior Landon Moseley drove in Dorian Green in the bottom of the inning to give LHS an 8-7 victory at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark against the previously unbeaten Tigers.

“To come out against an undefeated team, the defending Class 6A champions, and win that game like we did in the bottom of the seventh, that was big for our kids’ confidence,” said LHS assistant coach Adam Green, filling in for head coach Brad Stoll, who was serving a one-game suspension for being tossed out of last week’s loss to Free State.

No kidding.

The scene after the game more closely resembled that of a state-tournament victory in May than win No. 5 in mid-April. After touching second base after watching his shot to right land in the gap, Moseley raced toward his teammates beating his chest.

“You want that out of your kids,” Adam Green said. “They looked like they just won the seventh game of the World Series, and that’s awesome.”

For Moseley, who was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBIs, the moment was much more about the team’s victory than his game-winning RBI. Of course, why wouldn’t it have been? Moseley never doubted that he would come through. He knew it before he left the dugout, and he knew it before the ball even landed.

“I knew it was down,” Moseley said. “I wasn’t really even worried about running the bases.”

Luckily for the Lions, Dorian Green was. After leading off the seventh with a five-pitch walk, Green advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt from Kilmer. If you’re keeping track, that’s three strikeouts for Kilmer in the top of the seventh and a sacrifice in the bottom that set up the game-winning run.

“What Tanner Kilmer did for us in the late innings … he grew up a lot tonight,” Adam Green said.

He also injected life into the entire LHS dugout after buckling the knees of Blue Valley leadoff hitter Derek Hackney with a nasty breaking ball to end the top of the seventh.

“I’m just out there trying to get outs, any kind of outs,” Kilmer said. “But strikeouts are definitely better. There was a lot of momentum on our side after striking out the side, especially in a big game like that.”

The win snaps a three-game, three-sport losing streak to Blue Valley, which defeated Lawrence High in the Class 6A state baseball semifinals last season, won a first-round playoff football game against the Lions this season and scored a second-round, tournament victory in basketball against LHS back in December.

That fact was not lost on the Lions.

“Obviously, this was a big game,” Moseley said. “They knocked us out last year, and we were happy to put them out today.”

Leading up to the decisive inning, the Lions got five strong innings from starting pitcher Dorian Green and RBIs from seniors Clint Pinnick (two), Jake Green (one) and Tyler Bailey (one) along the way.

One day after taking down the No. 1-ranked team in Class 6A, the Lions (5-3) will look to do the same against the No. 1 team in Class 4A, when they take on Bishop Ward at 8 tonight at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in Kansas City, Kan.