Cornwall College will carry the hopes of many today as they seek to break the stranglehold of the Corporate Area on the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/FLOW Super Cup title when they take on Wolmer’s Boys’ in the final at Sabina Park set to start at 6:00 pm.

The Montego Bay-based school is the first daCosta Cup team to qualify for the final and further history could be created if they were to lift the crystal trophy at the end of today’s proceedings.

The game will pit two different styles of play, Cornwall College’s flowing attack that has produced nine goals in two games since Saturday against Wolmer’s more conservative style of play with just two goals in regulation over the same period, backed by a sturdy defence.

Despite being seen as the favourites in many quarters, Cornwall College’s coach Dr Dean Weatherly is backing away from the tag and told the Jamaica Observer this week that “there is no real edge for us, it is just who wants it most on the day. They play a really good game of touch football and we just have to try and prevent them from being confortable to play the touch football and try and destabilise them in the midfield and take it from there.”

In last weekend’s semi-finals, Cornwall College beat then high-flying Clarendon College 4-2, led by a second half hat-trick by the competition’s leading scorer Jourdaine Fletcher in an all daCosta Cup matchup, while Wolmer’s Boys’ got by St Elizabeth Technical High School on sudden death penalties after they played out a 1-1 scoreline in 120 minutes of regulation and extra time.

After cruising past Denham Town 3-0 in the first round, barely breaking sweat, Cornwall College were pushed to the limit in the quarter-finals by Rusea’s High, winning 4-3 on penalty kicks, then survived a first-half resurgence by Clarendon College last week.

All but one of Cornwall’s eight goals scored in the Super Cup were scored by Fletcher, but Dr Weatherly and his coaching staff would be pleased that of the five scored against a good Manchester High team in the daCosta Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday, only one was scored by Fletcher — from the penalty spot — while central defender Pagiel Brown scored two in the first half.

“That shows we are not as one-dimensional as some might think,” Dr Weatherly told the Observer. “But our system has been working and we trust our players to play to instructions.”

As impressive as the Cornwall College attack has been, Dr Weatherly said his team “was balanced, as we have a solid defensive unit that has been playing together for two seasons now”.

This is the first final for a senior football team from Cornwall College for 13 years, since winning the Ben Francis KO in 2003 and Dr Weatherly said: “It’s very important in terms of Cornwall College being a traditional powerhouse, seems we are back on the football radar now…it has been a long, arduous road and we have seen a lot of bonding, a lot of mixing and matching, cutting and pasting, but it seems the fruits are coming forth now.”

After beating Wolmer’s Boys’ 7-0 in the all-island final three years ago, a lot was expected of the Cornwall College team the last two years, but they were frustrated by a series of mishaps that derailed their ambitions, including losing in the first round of the first FLOW Super Cup to eventual champions Jamaica College in 2014.