Youth Club was two down before it had even reached double figures at Alexandra Oval and Aradale's bowlers made sure the visitors were unable to recover from that point onwards.

The Aradale bowlers continued to rip through the Clubbers' batting line up, with Brent Tate on target taking four wickets for 26 runs from his 16 overs.

Youth Club wickets fell consistently through the innings, with Rob Scott the only player to reach a semi decent score of 29.

After lasting only 41 overs Youth Club was all out for 91 runs, with Tate, Tyler Cronin (2/10) and Matt Stasse (2/24) the leading wicket takers.

Aradale needed just 33 overs and three wickets to win and progress to the final.

Andrew Wood stood up at the top of the Aradale order with 39 runs, while son Riley made a start with 20 before being dismissed.

Travis Horvatek then added 19 to the board, as the home side easily chased down the modest total to book their spot in the season decider.

Aradale's opponent Swifts/Great Western won the toss and elected to bat against Buangor which resulted in a good score, although there would have been some nerves in the Combine camp when Harry Ganley dismissed leading batsman Sam Cocks for just one run.

Six of the eight batsmen that made their way to the crease were able to get starts with Cocks and Nic Clough the only two to miss out.

James Devery waited until the first game of the finals to put some runs on the board and after surviving some short and fast bowling in the early stages of the innings he was able to settle into a rhythm.

Devery took some risks, but was able to bat through the entire innings to finish with an unbeaten 93 runs. Gary Ranton was the next best, also unbeaten on 44 runs.

With 277 runs in total the Combine would have been confident going into the field and that confidence was rewarded.

Like its opponent, Buangor had plenty of batsmen get their eye in, but partnerships continued to be broken.

The team’s top four combined for 112 runs, with Chris Jerram leading the way on 43, while Shaun Allen (39) was soild further down the order.

It wasn’t enough however, as the visitors fell 99 runs shy of the total set by the Combine.

Marc Brilliant was the best of the Swifts/Great Western bowlers taking three wickets from his 21 overs.

Swifts/Great Western will host Aradale in the final this weekend at Central Park to be played over three days.

In B grade it will be a St Andrews versus Halls Gap grand final, with Saints batsman Jacob Bates (101*) putting in the performance of the weekend.

Bates smashed his third century this season to guide St Andrews to the easy win over the Combine.

Chalambar will look to defend its C grade title after defeating Youth Club at the weekend.

Chally will play Aradale, after it ended Navarre’s season in the semi final.