Call them “Road Warriors”, if you want, for it absolutely fits the Westhill football team.

In a two-game span, the Warriors have gone from the middle of the Class B West pack to a serious post-season challenger, capping that effort by traveling to Homer Friday night and stunning the undefeated, state Class B no. 7-ranked Trojans 21-6.

Not only did the win clinch a Section III playoff berth, it created a three-way tie for second place in B West between Westhill, Skaneateles (who beat Cortland 34-8) and Chittenango (who beat Solvay 32-8), all of them sporting 5-2 records.

But the first-half points tie-breaker went against the Warriors, meaning that, in the opening round of the sectional playoffs, it must visit another undefeated opponent, 7-0 Cazenovia, next Saturday at 2:30 for a spot in the semifinals against Chittenango (who claimed the tie-breaker) or Mexico.

The regular-season finale did mean a lot more to Westhill than it did to Homer. The defending sectional Class B champion Trojans were 6-0 and had already locked up the B West regular-season title. Whatever happened here would not affect that status. Still, it was the Trojans’ Senior Night, so Homer didn’t really want to take a defeat here and spoil a second straight undefeated regular season.

But Westhill had other ideas. Not only was it confident from a three-game win streak, it boasted a defense that had just shut out Chittenango 3-0 a week earlier on the Bears’ home turf, so a Homer side that scored 72 points on Marcellus in its last outing didn’t scare the Warriors one bit.

During the first quarter, Westhill’s defense kept making big stops, and when the Warriors had the ball, it marched right down to Homer’s one-yard line, where quarterback Zavion Barrott sneaked in for the score.

Though Westhill didn’t score the rest of the half, it stayed out in front because Homer could not get the extra point following its lone touchdown of the night, on Ryan Wainwright’s 23-yard run.

So it was 7-6 at the break, just the kind of low-scoring game that the Warriors had survived at Chittenango, and it was only fitting that the defense got on the board in the third quarter.

With Homer pinned deep in its own territory, Westhill forced a fumble in the end zone that defensive end Casey Rogers recovered for six points. Silvino Argentieri’s extra point made it 14-6.

Try as it could, Homer could not answer, and from midfield Westhill sealed it when Shaleek Giles broke free on a 50-yard scoring run in the final period.

Elsewhere in B West, Marcellus overcame a 14-0 first-quarter deficit to beat Syracuse’s Institute of Technology Central 41-20. The Mustangs netted 27 unanswered points in the second quarter and answered the Eagles’ charges from there.

Before all this, Solvay was unable to keep Chittenango from locking up its own post-season berth Thursday night at Earl Hadley Stadium.

Going in, Solvay had to wonder how that 3-0 defeat to Westhill on Oct. 9 would affect Chittenango, who was also without its starting quarterback, Justin Gondeck, leaving Cooper Young to take over under center.

It didn’t take long, though, for the Bearcats to find out that Young’s presence opened up Chittenango’s attack. Less than four minutes into the first quarter, Young found big tight end Hunter Hendrix on a 29-yard scoring pass to put the Bears on the board.

By the end of the first quarter, it was 12-0, thanks to Connor Frederick’s one-yard TD plunge, and what was more, Chittenango’s defense remained the same stingy group that stymied Westhill so much, stopping all of Solvay’s chances in the first three periods.

Antonio Cutrie scored from nine yards out with 25 seconds left in the half, extending the Bears’ margin to 18-0, and it added second-half TD’s on runs of three yards from Fredericks and 39 yards from Duncan Smith.

Solvay, who fell to 1-6, only got on the board with 1:55 to play on Alex Britton’s 17-yard run. Britton ran for 55 yards on 19 carries, the leading gainer on a Bearcats squad that managed just 110 total yards.

Dustin Harris and Garrett Lee had 10 tackles on defense, with Jacob Hook and Mike Cimino earning six tackles apiece. Jesse Call and Zach Chrysler each finished with five tackles.