DANSVILLE — Tonawanda baseball ace Jesse Zellner isn’t easily satisfied. In fact, the senior hurler could barely crack a smile after the Warriors trotted off the field Thursday at Sal Maglie Stadium with the school’s first Section VI title in hand.

Instead, he was all business, ready to help his team conquer the next obstacle in sight.

That obstacle came Monday and the determined right-hander retired 11 opposing batters on strikes, sending Wellsville packing and delivering Tonawanda its first-ever Far West Regional championship with a 2-1 win at Dansville’s Babcock Park.

“Well, I’m pretty satisfied, but not satisfied yet,” Zellner said. “This is nice. But I’m still not satisfied. This team is special. Our goal was to first win sectionals, then win states. So we’re not done yet.”

The victory reserves the Warriors a spot in the New York State Class B Final Four and a shot at destiny on Saturday in Binghamton.

“It is satisfying, but at the same time, we can’t be satisfied by just getting here,” Tonawanda skipper John Frank said. “We have to stay focused and play our game, and if we do, we’ll win.”

Tonawanda fed off Zellner’s performance on the mound, taking advantage of an error in the bottom half of the second to plate the first run.

Sophomore Kyle Gallivan was rewarded first after taking a sailing fastball to the hands. Then with Gallivan on second, Shane Foster knocked a playable blooper to the second baseman, Seth Wright, but he was unable to make the routine out, subsequently leading a heads-up run from Gallivan.

In the very next inning, the Warriors were at it again at the plate. Steven Stich sent a leadoff base hit up the middle to open the inning. Stich reached second on a passed ball, then a soft ground out by Jordan McGregor was good enough to move Stich 90-feet closer.

Zellner would not let it go to waste. The senior slugger drove a one-out bomb deep toward the right-field fence, falling just feet short from the 310-foot mark. Stich, though, would tag to tack on another run.

Although the Lions limited the Warriors’ opportunity at the plate, they came through when they needed it most, Frank said.

“It was key for us,” Frank said. “Again, it was taking advantage of opportunities and executing when needed.”

The Warriors’ captain was dialed in from the opening pitch as expected. A Zellner four-seamer put Lions batter Brian Depew in the books looking. On the opposite side of the ball, Zellner opened up with a two-out shot to deep right center.

In the fifth, however, Zellner fell into a bit of a jam. Wellsville outfielder Greg Macafee reached first on a hit-by-pitch. Following a Wright walk, Lions three hitter Connor Hennessy was at the dish.

On a called double-steal, Warriors catcher Brian McCarthy attempted to throw out Macafee at third, but the ball drifted past Foster at third, allowing one runner to score.

Nonetheless, Zellner kept his composure, closing out the inning with a strikeout and a grounder to second to walk out of the inning with the lead still intact.

“Normally, I can get out of these jams,” Zellner said. “I’m pretty good under pressure. I want to strike them out.”

That demeanor is the backbone of the Section VI champs, Frank said.

“His attitude and composure on the mound, it leads our team,” he said. “This is his fourth win of the sectionals. He definitely is our leader out there on the mound. He got ahead in counts and was able to command the game by doing that.”

Despite just the one-run cushion, Zellner sent three up, three down in the seventh to guarantee the Warriors a spot in the Final Four, and Zellner a spot at the bottom of the celebratory dog pile.

“It means a lot, especially because we worked so well in the offseason and during the season,” Stich said. “We all wanted to make it to states and we finally made it.”

The Warriors were joined in the merriment by the roughly 30 members of ‘The Tribe,’ as well as what seemed like the entire Tonawanda community in attendance.

Frank, though, added that he knew the sky was the limit for his squad from Opening Day, and doesn’t want the championship run any time soon.

“We had a young team in low numbers four years ago,” the eighth-year coach said. “Last year we kind of turned it around when we were one out away from going to the sectional finals. We came [into this season] focused as a team and I reminded them how special this team was and how special the group of kids were and what we could do. We’re living the dream now.

“Hey, this is fun,” Frank said. “I don’t want to stop now.”