LYNN – For a half Thursday, the St. Mary’s boys soccer team absorbed everything Lynnfield could dish out ? and gave it right back.But that was only for a half.The second half of the Division 3 North semifinal game at Manning Field was an entirely different story. The Pioneers scored five unanswered goals in the final 40 minutes to win going away, 6-1, to play Georgetown Saturday at 3 p.m. in an all-Cape Ann League sectional final.”We didn’t come ready to play,” Spartans coach Mike D’Agostino said. “That’s it, simply. We didn’t do the things we needed to do. We didn’t shoot the ball.”The Spartans put one shot on Lynnfield keeper Nick Romano ? and it went in.”See?” D’Agostino said. “We get it on net, and we pop it in. We obviously didn’t do that enough.”Lynnfield’s speed, however, was the real culprit Thursday. The Pioneers, playing on the artificial surface at Manning, beat St. Mary’s to every ball. More than a few St. Mary’s observers said Lynnfield was the fastest team the Spartans had faced all season.That speed came into play especially because Lynnfield totally shut down St. Mary’s No. 1 scorer (Ralph Bertrand).”We were concerned about him,” Lynnfield coach Brent Monroe said. “But to be honest, we didn’t do anything special with him, except on throw-ins and corners. Then we put our best defender (Peter Franchi) on him.”Peter did a good job on him the whole game.”Still, Monroe wasn’t entirely pleased with the fact that the score stood 1-1 at the break.”The first half didn’t go as we’d have liked,” he said. “They put a lot of pressure on us and we didn’t handle it well. We did better in the second. I think our goal early in the half gave us a lot of energy.”Lynnfield struck first, with only four minutes gone in the game, when George Levantakis (who had a hat trick) shot one that appeared to hit the crossbar. But after a conference, the referees ruled it a goal.”George is a very good forward,” D’Agostino said. “Hats off to him.”Alexander Alleyne tied it with less than a minute to go in the half. Christian Chavez took a shot that Romano came way out to stop. But he couldn’t corral it and Alleyne was there to kick it home.With less than four minutes gone in the second half, though, Levantakis scored again, this time from James Hook (one of three assists). Levantakis made a great individual play on the goal, spinning around three St. Mary’s defenders before connecting.Hook got one of his own midway through the second half to make it 3-1 on a shot, resulting from a steal, that St. Mary’s keeper Helio Neto could do nothing about.Levantakis got No. 3 for the evening, taking a pass from Hook that just missed a diving Mike Russo’s head and breaking in cleanly on Neto.And although that put the game away, Marco Addonizio scored two late ones to account for the final score.Steve Krause can be reached at [email protected].