The stage has been set for a grand East versus West showdown between Wolmer’s Boys’ School and Cornwall College to bring the curtains down on the 2016 staging of the ISSA/FLOW Super Cup tournament.

The dynamic event dubbed the “Champions League of Schoolboy Football” will, for the first time since its inception, befittingly culminate with an urban area representative squaring off against a rural area counterpart.

Both Wolmer’s Boys’ and Cornwall College continued their journey towards the $1 million prize and the Italian-made trophy after scoring contrasting victories in their respective semi-final matches at Sabina Park last Saturday.

The in-form Cornwall College maintained their unbeaten record when they humbled the red-hot Clarendon College 4-2 in an exciting contest to whet the appetite of the large crowd inside the venue.

Wolmer’s Boys’ then got the better of St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) 6-5 on sudden death penalties in an intense feature contest which had supporters on the edge of their seats during the shoot-out.

Carlo Redwood, FLOW’S vice-president of marketing and television, was upbeat about the outcome. “This is the dream of what Super Cup was built on. It was always communicated as country versus town, rural versus Corporate Area and we finally got that. It is really a great achievement to have gotten to this point because the daCosta Cup schools struggled in the first two years. But they came back so strong this year, and even then, we still had one hard-fighting Manning Cup team that stood up well and ended up in the final,” said Redwood.

“So we are happy with this match-up, which is even more special because it is not just rural versus Corporate, but it is also east versus west; Kingston versus Montego Bay, and we all know how that rivalry goes. This is going to be the classic match-up and the classic rivalry that everyone has been looking for,” he added.

“I think how we seeded the teams proved itself and how we set up the brackets has delivered, so that we have now ended up with the best Manning Cup team against the best daCosta Cup team left in the competition.

“Therefore, it just proves that the formula that we have built over the last two years, now into the third year, is working to present to us what all of Jamaica is going to be excited about — a real national final,” he noted.