WESTFIELD — It was an explosive second half from the Frontier boys soccer team that led to a 5-1 win in the Western Mass. Class B quarterfinals over Westfield Tech Wednesday at Jachym Field.

Despite playing on the road against a higher-seeded team, No. 6 Frontier (16-1) struck first 14 minutes into the game. Chanhee Son was able to dish the ball across the goal giving Nico Fasulo the green light to fire the ball into the right side of the net to put his team on the board 1-0.

“It was nice to get that first breakthrough,” said Son. “To always score first is a good feeling to get the relief from a tie.”

Holding the lead for a mere 10 minutes, No. 3 Westfield Tech (11-6) answered with a goal of its own as Zachary Zelazko set up teammate Sean Johnson for tally to make it 1-1.

That score held until halftime before the Redhawks struck again. To go along with his previous assist, Son was able to find the back of the net off a direct free kick 35 yards out to put Frontier up 2-1.

“I’ve been kind of dreaming about that kind of free kick for a while now so it’s nice to finally have it,” Son said.

Not even a full minute later, the Hawks dominated the field offensively, as Rosco Palmer was able to score directly in front of the goal via Max Rajballie’s assist making it 3-1.

“[Westfield’s defense] really opened up our two outsides where they were able to switch it back to the middle which opened up the rest of the field for us to get shots on goal,” Palmer said.

Keeping pressure on the defense, it was Aiden Valderrama’s successful penalty kick at the 54-minute mark that extended Frontier’s growing lead to 4-1.

The Hawks didn’t stop there.

Ultimately putting the game away, Diego Frazier’s lengthy pass from Frontier’s back field made it untouched at Palmer's feet. With four Tigers sprinting alongside him, Palmer had no choice but to burn them out from midfield where he found himself by the goal.

With the Tigers goalie in a panic, Palmer’s kick blew past him leaving the final score 5-1.

“For us, it was just about finding a groove – trying to get back to who we are and what we know we can do and we were really struggling with that in the first half,” Frontier coach Evan Horton said. “I’m proud of my guys for being able to come back and do that.”

Advancing to the Class B semifinals, Frontier will host Belchertown (9-5-3) at this Saturday at 2 p.m.

Non-playoff games

Turners 4, Greenfield 1 — Yolvin Ovalle tallied his second hat trick of the season on Wednesday, lifting the Thunder past Greenfield in a non-playoff game in Turners Falls.

Noah Kolodziej also found the back of the net for Turners, and Aras Wiles added an assist.

Greenfield’s Clivens Carter Michel tallied for the visitors.

Girls soccer

Class C quarters

Mount Greylock 4, Franklin Tech 0 — Lily McDermott tallied twice in the second half, helping No. 2 Mount Greylock to a 4-0 win in the Class C quarterfinals on Wednesday night in Williamstown.

Franklin Tech head coach Jason Butynski was pleased with the way his seventh-seeded Eagles performed.

“Our girls came out here and left their guts on the field,” Butynski said. “I’m so proud of them. We lost but we showed we belonged against a really good team.”

The Eagles trailed 2-0 at halftime. Goalie Kylee Gamache made 13 saves in a Herculean performance in net, and Butynski also lauded the play of Sofia Moreno, Kyra Goodell and Mia Marigliano.

Monson 8, Athol 0 — The eighth-seeded Bears bowed out against one of the top teams in all of Western Mass. via an 8-0 loss in the Class C quarterfinals on Wednesday in Monson.

The top-seeded Mustangs improved to 16-0-1 on the season.

Athol dropped to 12-3-2.

Non-playoff games

Greenfield 2, McCann Tech 0 — Elderina Cecunjanin and Tayler Bergeron scored goals for the Green Wave in a non-playoff win Wednesday.

Greenfield goalie Annie Cobileanschi made 12 saves for the shutout.