Defending champion of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Competition, Back Circle along with Leopold Street, won their respective semi final games, one-nil on Tuesday night at the National Cultural Centre tarmac and will battle for the $600,000 first prize when the final is staged on Saturday.
A goal off the boot by Wayne Wilson in the 17th minute for the defending champions, put paid to the hopes of Broad Street B of advancing to the final, while national midfielder, Konata Mannings, buried a penalty to give the Werk-en-Rust side the victory against West Front Road.
Broad Street B and West Front Road will both look to end the tournament on a positive note when they face off in the third place. The second, third and fourth place finishers, will pocket $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000 respectively.
The finals and third place playoff games are set for Saturday at the National Park tarmac.
Meanwhile in the two exhibition games, Guinness Bar needled GT Master’s one-nil, while Upper Level Barbershop and Clippers Barbershop played to a one-all draw.
Kerwin Jackson (10th minute) scored for Clippers Barbershop while Anton George netted the equalizer for Upper Level Barbershop two minutes later.
In the third place playoff exhibition game on Saturday, GT Master’s will tackle Clippers Barbershop while Guinness Bar
will face Upper Level Barbershop in the final’s exhibition game. The winner will pocket $100,000 while the top three runners up will take home $50,000, $25,000 and $15,000 respectively.
Action kicks off at 20:00hrs.
