With the preliminary finals of the winter season completed, teams now look to the deciders which will be played at the German Club tonight.
In division 1, German Club Warriors (who finished third on the ladder) easily accounted for Eastern Sapphires to get themselves into the big dance for the first time since 2018 when they last won the premiership.
After a strong finish to the season, Sapphires did well to snag a spot in the second semi-final to give them a double life but failed to fire, being bundled out with consecutive 8-3 losses.
Best on the night for the Warriors were captain, Jude Button, and Carol Lockwood with a couple of frames each, and Wendy Balshaw who stepped up and got two wins also.
Warriors will face defending premiers and 2018 grand-final opponents German Club Shooters.
JT Strikers was the clear favourite heading into the grand final from the Division 2 prelim but were outdone by bottom qualifiers Park Panthers in a match that went down to the wire.
Park Panthers held on 8-7 thanks to Benni Rosmann and Robyn Olds.
Kaye Simpson and Bindi Davis both won a couple each for the losers.
MOUNT GAMBIER EIGHTBALL ASSOCIATION
With the minor round proceedings done and dusted for the Mount Gambier Eightball Association season, all teams will now look to the finals series.
The top two Division 1 teams German Club Underdogs and Aussie fronted up against one another in an end of season clash.
Aussie who were waxing top position with Commercial Club Saints for a good part of the season could not quite get over the line – even with star player Dick Peters – in a match which eventually had them going down 8-7 when young-gun Isaac Manterfield defeated former Berri Open champ Fred Newton in the final and deciding frame.
German Club Gatecrashers finished the season off well with a 12-3 win over JT Sportsbar which saw them elevated to second on the ladder and a double life in the finals.
In the remaining matches, Commercial Club Saints had a good night cruising to a 12-3 win over German Club Shooters and jumped up to the third rung on the ladder while German Club Meerkats travelled to the bay and gave Victoria Hotel (The Craybaits) a 13-2 flogging.
Tomorrow night will see minor round premiers Underdogs sitting out with a rest, Gatecrashers face Saints in the qualifying-final, and Merkats will take on Aussie – who dropped from top of the ladder to fourth position in two weeks – in the do-or-die elimination final.
Regular front runners of Division 2 Linksview had a solid 12-3 win over True Blue which will see the former have a break in the first week of finals while counterparts Linksview Crawlers easily accounted for wooden spooners Pines Lumberjacks 11-4.
Commercial Club Lakers defeated German Club TNT 10-5, while Commercial Club Cavemen went down hard to the Nemows 11-4. games to 4.
RSL surprisingly went down to the much lower ranked German Club Bandits 8-7 in a close one which could give the Bandits some confidence going into their finals campaign.
Lakers will now take on Linksview Crawlers in the qualifying final while Nemows will front up to RSL in the cut-throat elimination final.
In Division 3, Commersh Chaos will have the rest while Commercial Club Cavemen will play Jens1 in the qualifying-final and German Club Shooters will be put to the test by German Club Outlaws in the elimination.
Commersh Comic will face elimination when they meet True Blue in Division 4, while German Club TNT and Eastern Allsorts will play in the qualifying final.
JT Sportsbar enjoys a rest until the second semi the following week.
German Club Bandits earned themselves a rest after their efforts in the last minor round and managed to finish top of division 5.
They will face the winner of the qualifying-final between German Club Chokers and Eastern Rangers in the second semi-final while the loser of the elimination-final between Victoria Hotel and Pines Lumberjacks will be out of the comp with the winner progressing to the first semi against the loser of said match above.
