The two teams battled throughout the match with the winner advancing to Saturday’s title match against the winner of today’s Dowagiac-Hartford match.

Coloma (7-9-2) got on the board first as Ronnie Burchfield scored in the 11th minute.

Twenty two minutes later, the Rangers were able to tie the score at 1-1 on a goal by Kelvin Curtis.

Following the Lopez goal, Cassopolis increased the pressure and over the final five minutes of the match had several quality scoring chances against Comets’ keeper Tyler Hester.

“We had fantastic offensive pressure,” Cassopolis coach Oli Olafsson said of the last offensive charge by the Rangers. “We had two or three chances at an open goal and you can’t ask anything more that that.”

Olafsson said that the slow start by the Rangers was caused by the fact that Coloma used a different line-up than the first time they met — a 6-6 tie early in the season.

“The kids wanted to see what they wanted to do,” he said.

Both teams finished with 12 shots on goal in the contest.

Dowagiac and Hartford will meet at 4:30 today for a spot in the finals. The Chieftains defeated the Indians 6-2 earlier in the season.

Coloma…2

Cassopolis…1

Halftime score

Coloma 1, Cassopolis 1

First half

CO – Ronnie Burchfield 11th minute

CA – Kelvin Curtis 33rd minute

Second half

CO – Christian Lopez 61st minute (penalty kick)

Shots on goal

Coloma 12

Cassopolis 12