SHEFFIELD - Can the Frontier Regional baseball team repeat the unthinkable? Don't count it out.

The seventh-seeded Red Hawks scored three early runs and added another three in the fifth en route to a 7-5 victory over No. 2 Mount Everett in the quarterfinals of the Western Massachusetts Division 3 Baseball Tournament on Monday.

Frontier, which finished the 2005 regular season 10-10 before winning the sectional title, is now two wins away from accomplishing the same feat this year.

The Red Hawks' next assignment is a semifinal clash with Hampshire League rival and No. 6 seed Hopkins Academy - a 6-2 winner on Monday over No. 3 Pioneer Valley - at 7 p.m. Thursday at Veterans Memorial Field in Greenfield.

The Eagles finished their season at 16-5.

Frontier (12-10) got to Mount Everett starter Mike Lombardi at the outset, as Ashton Lutenegger lined a single to left field, Anthony Laurenitis walked and Gary Grandonico sacrificed both runners over for Erik Abramson (3-for-4, two runs, two stolen bases). He roped a single to left to plate Lutenegger and move Laurenitis to third. Abramson quickly stole second.

Chris Williams came up and tattooed a fastball to deep left field that appeared to be well beyond Dylan Wheeler, but the fleet left fielder chased it down with Abramson already rounding third just behind Laurenitis. Abramson was able to backtrack and slide back into second safely, as Laurenitis tagged up to score the second run.

Wojtowicz then hit a grounder that was bobbled by shortstop Conor Gallagher, allowing Abramson to score. Kirk Gross (3-for-4) followed with a line single to left, but Lombardi settled down and struck out Jaren Lutenegger to end the inning.

"It was big for Steve to get a three-run lead," said Frontier coach Aaron Campbell. "It made it easier for him to pound the strike zone early on. It also gave our guys more confidence offensively and defensively."

The Red Hawks broke it open in the fifth. Laurenitis was hit by a pitch, Grandonico boomed a double to deep left that rescued Laurenitis with the fourth Frontier run, and Abramson ripped a shot to left-center that plated Grandonico. Abramson came around to score on two wild pitches and Williams' sacrifice fly to make it 6-0.

The Eagles started to get to Wojtowicz in the bottom of the fifth. Wheeler hit a ground-rule double to right and went to third on a wild pitch, Dustin Walther walked, and Wheeler scored on Wojtowicz's errant pick-off throw to first.

Walther then stole second, Tom Danz was hit by a pitch, and Ryan Ward singled to center to plate Walther. Danz tried to go to third on the play but was gunned down by Lutenegger. Wojtowicz then got Gallagher to fly out to end the threat.

Three consecutive hits in the sixth, capped off by Wyatt Ronan's RBI-single, got Mount Everett within 6-3.

Frontier added an insurance run in the seventh on pinch-hitter Brian Decker's run-scoring single.

It turned out to be a big run, because the Eagles rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh on a hit batsman, two walks, Lombardi's RBI single and Ronan's sacrifice fly. But reliever Robbie Sjodahl got Wheeler to ground out to end the game.

Wojtowicz fanned four, walked three and scattered seven hits to earn the win.