Catherine McAuley College and Bendigo Senior Secondary College have the opportunity to set-up an historic first all-Bendigo state Premier League football grand final.
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CMC hosts Warrnambool Secondary College at Epsom from 1pm on Wednesday in one semi-final, while BSSC travels to Melbourne to play Box Hill Secondary College in the second semi-final.
CMC goes into its clash with Warrnambool without injured key forwards Sean O’Farrell and Aaron Gundry.
“I’m still confident we have the group that can win the game,’’ CMC coach Lee Coghlan said.
“If we can reproduce the footy we’ve played in the past few matches then we’re going to give ourselves a great chance of winning.”
CMC was unbeaten in its preliminary round matches, including a last-start win over BSSC.
Warrnambool finished runner-up behind Box Hill in its pool.
Coghlan expects the Warrnambool side to play a contested brand of footy.
“I watched the inter-league under-18 game at Warrnambool and they had some big boys,’’ he said.
“I expect them to be a physical side and they’ll be used to playing in wet and windy conditions.
“Hopefully, we can run over the top of them.”
BSSC will go into its semi-final clash with Box Hill as the underdog.
Box Hill won its three pool matches by an average margin of seven goals.
BSSC will be without Vic Country squad member Zane Keighran, but it does have a host of Bendigo Pioneers’ players, including the goal-to-goal line of Josh Grace, Nathan McHugh, James Schischka, Braydon Vaz and Daine Grace.
BSSC was runner-up in this competition last year, while CMC lost its semi-final by one point.
CMC team to play Warrnambool:
B: Brody Brown, Harry Fiske-Kealy, Harrison Goode
Hb: Zack Shelton, Kyle Symons, Benjamin Worme
C: Charlie Robinson, Hunter Lawrence, Callum McCarty
Hf: Mitchell Rovers, William Wallace, Peter Coghlan
F: Harry McCormick, Nick Keogh, James Mittel
Foll: Connor Sexton, Daniel Clohesy, Flynn Perez
Inter: Alexander Welch, Harrison Burke, Will Tobin, Angus Dickson, Samuel Welch
BSSC team to play Box Hill:
B: Deklan Loveridge, Josh Grace, Charlie Mathieson
Hb: Leyton Chisholm, Nathan McHugh, Liam Marciano
C: Luke Padgham, James Schischka, Hakeem Johnson
Hf: Phil Moi Moi, Braydon Vaz, Alex Smith-Ralph
F: Mitch Goodwin, Daine Grace, Caleb Fisher
Foll: Mitch Christensen, Riley Matricardi, Lucas Cacciavello
Inter: Jack Thompson, Zack Bulger, Nathan Murley, Alex Jenkyn, Justin Slater
