By Charmaine Austin, Staff ReporterDEFENDING SENIOR title-holders Dunoon, last year's junior champions Holy Childhood, Ascot and Wolmer's booked final spots after eliminating their respective opponents in the UGI-sponsored ISSA Corporate Area High school girls netball competition yesterday.
The finalists were decided after semi-final round action at the Leila Robinson Courts and based on the match-ups, Thursday's finals promise to be exciting.
Wayne Stewart-coached Holy Childhood will challenge C. Lloyd Walker's Dunoon for the senior title, while Wolmer's square off with Ascot in the junior final.
Ascot, who are reaching the final for the first time, registered a come-from-behind 19-14 victory over Ardenne in their semi-final game. Ardenne led 10-8 at the half-time interval but Ascot, after taking a while to settle, ran them ragged when play resumed.
FORCING ERRORS
Said coach Everton Samuels: "Forcing them into errors was a part of our plan so when we settled it was just a matter of time before we had the game the way we had planned. Getting this far is real historic for us but we can't deny the fact that Ascot is one of the best junior teams around right now."
Wolmer's meanwhile outplayed Queen's 20-9 in the other junior semi-final and the result left coach Robbbie Whyte satisfied, seeing that the senior failed to advance.
Long after the final whistle went, Holy Childhood continued to celebrate their 29-20 win over Wolmer's.
What was foremost in their thoughts however, was meeting Dunoon.
"It's going to be a very exciting game," coach Stewart predicted.
"Dunoon is an excellent team and will be tough to beat. Today (yesterday) we needed the win more so we took it. This is our first time in the senior final and we want that title just as bad," he said.
Dunoon went into their game against St Hugh's looking like champions and emerged as such with a 26-15 scoreline.
They led 13-9 at half-time and between shooters Sophia Grant and Linette Henry and defenders Melissa Hunter and Tanisha Lamont made sure that it was St Hugh's that went back to the drawing board.
