The Canberra Olympic Supercats and Canberra City Prawns will meet in a high octane JOMA Premier League Grand Final at the AIS Training Hall after an exhibition of Futsal at its finest in the semi-finals stages on Thursday evening.

The battle for the Golden Boot will also go to the wire after a hat-trick from Supercats’ Scott Manson took him to 26 goals for the season, one ahead of team mate Elia Salloum. Manson’s hat-trick was added to by Lee Pietrukowski as the Supercats outfought the Cooma Tigers 4-2 in a high-quality match. Dale Schoon and Tony Aleksovski, with his sixteenth goal of the year, gave the Tigers some chance of success but the Supercats, who have suffered only one loss all year, held on to advance to the Grand Final.

In the second semi-final a George Cattanach hat-trick was the highlight as the Canberra City Prawns, the only team to defeat the Supercats all season, saw off the challenge of TUFC Gunners 4-2. Cattanach’s treble was added to by a goal from young Ryan Keir as the Prawns made the most of the large court playing a quick-passing, high-tempo match. The Gunners were typically tenacious in defeat with James McLachlan scoring two goals for the Tuggeranong team who just failed to get over the line.

JOMA Premier League Semi-Finals

Thursday 16th December

Canberra Olympic Supercats 4 (Scott Manson (3), Lee Pietrukowski) Cooma Tigers 2 (Dale Schoon, Tony Alekovski)

Canberra Olympic Supercats: 1. Angelo Konstantinou (gk), 5. Elia Salloum, 6. Matt Whyte, 8. Scott Manson, 11. Lee Pietrukowski, 23. Peter Farrelly

Cooma Tigers: 1. Francois Bangweni (gk), 2. Kitsana Muongsene, 3. Elliot Zwangobani, 4. Tony Aleksovski, 6. Iain Elliott, 7. Marcial Munoz, 9. Dale Schoon, 10. Goran Josifovski, 11. Misko Naumovski

Discipline: YELLOW CARDS: 1. Francois Bangweni (Cooma Tigers)

Canberra City Prawns 4 (George Cattanach (3), Ryan Keir) TUFC Gunners 2 (James McLachlan (2))

Canberra City Prawns: 12. Kieren Stroh (gk), 1. Pat Ross-Magee, 3. Ryan Kyprianou, 7. Chris Lee, 8. Ryan Keir, 9. George Cattanach, 10. Trent Flanigan, 14. Rory Devlin

TUFC Gunners: 1. Matt MacDonald (gk), 3. Tim Mathas, 7. Jackson Kupke, 8. Luke Fattore, 9. Martin Corujo, 10. James McLachlan, 11. Peter McLachlan, 15. Simon Badman, 17. Matt Menser

Discipline: YELLOW CARDS: 3. Ryan Kyprianou, 12. Kieren Stroh (both Canberra City Prawns), 8. Luke Fattore, 10. James McLachlan (both TUFC Gunners)

JOMA Men’s Premier League Final

18:30: Canberra Olympic Supercats v Canberra City Prawns

LEADING SCORERS

26 Scott Manson (Canberra Olympic Supercats)

25 Elia Salloum (Canberra Olympic Supercats)

22 Tom Rogic (Canberra Olympic Supercats)

16 Jason O’Dwyer (Belconnen United), Pat Ross-Magee (Canberra City Prawns), Tony Aleksovski (Cooma Tigers)

12 Phillip Mackay (ANU FC), Taylor Beaton (Belconnen United), Lee Pietrukowski (Canberra Olympic Supercats), Goran Josifovski (Cooma Tigers)

11 George Cattanach (Canberra City Prawns)

10 Lukas Cole (ANU FC)

9 Dustin Wells (Belconnen United), Adrian Dowling (Canberra Olympic Supercats), Matt Menser (TUFC Gunners)

8 Trent Flanigan (Canberra City Prawns), Luke Fattore, James McLachlan (both TUFC Gunners)

7 William Sheppard (ANU FC), David Kemp (Belconnen United), Travis Dries (Boomerangs FS), Misko Naumoski (Cooma Tigers), Martin Corujo (TUFC Gunners), Kole Aitken, Ben Harrington (both WVFC Timberwolves)

6 Angus Patterson (ANU FC), Glenn Smith (Boomerangs FS), Misko Naumsoki (Cooma Tigers), Simon Badman, Jackson Kupke (both TUFC Gunners)

5 Adrian Stroh (ANU FC), Steven Klug, Sam Smith, Nathan Walker (all Boomerangs FS), Ryan Keir, Ryan Kyprianou (both Canberra City Prawns), Dale Schoon (Cooma Tigers), Peter McLachlan (TUFC Gunners)

4 Sam Carters (ANU FC), Rory Devlin (Canberra City Prawns), Peter Farrelly (Canberra Olympic Supercats), Grant Davoren, Evan Steele (both WVFC Timberwolves)

3 Jason Farrell, Cameron Reinhart (both Belconnen United), Kristian Collins, Michael Reeves, (both Boomerangs FS), Chris Lee (Canberra City Prawns), Matthew Whyte (Canberra Olympic Supercats), Iain Elliot, Marcial Munoz, Kitsana Muongsene (all Cooma Tigers), Antoni Jagarinec (TUFC Gunners),

2 Callum Beaton (Belconnen United), Adrian Vizzari (Canberra City Prawns), Tim Denne, Jeoff Noja, Ludovic Papin (all WVFC Timberwolves)

1 Callum Smith (ANU FC), Ash Harris (Belconnen United), Ashley Collins (Boomerangs FS), Danny Macor (Canberra City Prawns), Angelo Konstantinou (Canberra Olympic Supercats), Roger Cua (Cooma Tigers), Tim Mathas (TUFC Gunners), Matt Davoren, Steve Zardo (both WVFC Timberwolves), own goals