Neither of Baldwinsville’s soccer teams will feel satisfied unless they sweep to their respective Section III Class AA championships – and the first steps to such a sweep were taken on Friday night. In the case of the girls Bees, it involved atoning for 2009’s shocking exit in the AA quarterfinals at the expense of Auburn, which it did by blitzing no. 9 seed Oswego right from the opening whistle and not stopping until it had registered a 5-0 shutout of the Buccaneers. Meanwhile, the B’ville boys team, beginning its pursuit of a fourth consecutive sectional title as a no. 2 seed, surged in the middle of its AA quarterfinal against no. 7 seed Liverpool and breezed past the Warriors 4-0. Both games were played on the new turf field at Fulton, a move made by B’ville officials when they decided that the grass at Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium had not sufficiently recovered from the beating it took during the football game against CBA two weeks ago. Even in a different venue, though, absolutely nothing was going to keep the B’ville girls team from exorcising those year-old ghosts. Now, just as in ’09, the Bees were a no. 1 seed – and though Oswego prevented an Auburn rematch by beating the Maroons 2-1 in the opening round earlier this week, the Bucs would face the same kind of lethal payback. It took less than 90 seconds for B’ville to take a 1-0 lead as Lily VanDevalk scored. Then Jackie Firenze converted off a feed from Emma Firenze to make it 2-0, and Emma added her own goal to make it 3-0, all in the first 20 minutes of play. And it didn’t stop there, either, as Emma Firenze returned to post a second goal in the 28th minute to extend the margin to 4-0, and four minutes later Jessica Elliott joined in by converting Katie Sullivan’s pass into the fifth goal of the night. With a big lead established, the Bees spent the rest of the game protecting its shutout and, in the latter stages, making lots of substitutions to make sure that the entire roster avoided injury – which it did. Once that work was done, it was the B’ville boys team’s turn to hit the Fulton turf against Liverpool, a team it beat 2-0 just 13 days earlier on the Pelcher-Arcaro quagmire, Ben Ramin picking up both goals in that earlier meeting. Despite the Warriors’ late-season improvement, it would find itself in a defensive mode against B’ville from the start. The only difference from the girls game was that Liverpool was able to keep the Bees off the board early, making the partisans in red worry. But in the 26th minute, B’ville seized a 1-0 lead when, on a free kick, Mike Guardino took the rebound from Liverpool’s wall and fed it right back to the middle. When Warriors goalie Joe Gilbert could not handle the ball, Jon Price swooped in to put home the rebound. It looked like Liverpool would maintain that one-goal deficit through the rest of the half, and a series of sporadic Warrior attacks signaled to B’ville that it could not relax, which may have led to the game’s pivotal moment. As the first-half clock wound down, B’ville again made a push. From the left side, Jack Jeffery flashed open and passed to the middle – where Ramin smacked a touch shot between his legs past Gilbert into the net just 3.6 seconds before the horn sounded. Suddenly ahead 2-0, B’ville carried that good feeling into the second half as, 1:33 into that frame, Ramin pounced on a loose ball in front of the net and easily converted his fourth goal against Liverpool in two games. Stefan Merchant would convert in the 51st minute on a hard shot from the point to wrap things up. In the Class AA semifinals, B’ville’s girls would go first, playing no. 4 seed Liverpool Tuesday night at West Genesee High School. The Bees won a pair of 2-1 decisions in the regular season as the winner gets Fayetteville-Manlius or Cicero-North Syracuse in the finals. B’ville’s boys head Wednesday to Liverpool, going up against no. 3 seed Cicero-North Syracuse in what promises to be a fierce, physical battle (the Bees won 1-0 at Gillette Field in their only regular-season encounter on Sept. 20). The winner gets F-M or West Genesee in the title game.