THE curtain will fall on the sixth Annual New Era Entertainment/Mohamed’s Enterprise Futsal tournament tonight in the ‘mining town’ of Linden when Hard Knocks match skills with NK Ballers in the final for the grand $600 000 cash prize following Thursday’s exciting semifinal round.

The opening semifinal on Thursday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) hard court produced 37 goals with Hard Knocks outgunning home side Dave & Celina All-Stars 23-14.
The match lasted 20 minutes per half and Pernell Schultz banged in nine goals for the winners while Daniel Wilson fired home an impressive eight goals. Trenton Lashley was part of the action with a hat-trick, Colin Nelson a brace and goalkeeper Sese Norville joined in the fun as well with a penalty.

Darrel George scored four goals for the losers with supporting hat-tricks each from Benjamin Opara and Kevin Phillips.
The feature match saw NK Ballers get past High Rollers 7-5. The win was spearheaded by a hat-trick from Donovan Francis while Keon Sears assisted well with a brace to his name on the score sheet.

Jashawn Moore and Omar Brewley each bagged braces in the losing effort for High Rollers.
The winning team will pocket $600 000, second place $250 000 and teams finishing third and fourth will take home $100 000 and $50 000 respectively.

The third-place playoff that will see High Rollers and Dave & Celina’s All Stars battle each other will kick off at 20:00hrs while the final commences at 21:00hrs.
An after-party is scheduled to take place at Times Square Lounge.