An electric and energetic atmosphere hit Warner Park on Wednesday as fans from both team decorated the venue with yellow and red and danced to the music of the iron band.

With both teams seemingly equal in strength and skill, little action took place early in the first half.

In the 25th minute however, Newtown took the lead with a corner kick that was not cleared properly by the Conaree team and was thumped in the back of the net by Ian ‘Rumpy’ Lake.

Conaree had a few chances but they however failed to capitalize on them so the Newtown team went into half time with a slender advantage.

Going into the second half  the now confident Newtown was fully in control and forcing Conaree into making a number of mistakes, with one eventually leading to a goal, when a poor goal kick from the Conaree tea, resulted in a sensational goal being scored by Shashi Isaac in the 57th minute.

Yellow cards were shown to Mudassa Howe (Conaree) in the 52nd minute, Errol O’Loughlin (Conaree) in the 73rd minute, Alexis ‘Lecky” Saddler (Newtown)in the  84th minute and Shashi Isaac (Newtown) in the 85th minute.

Officials for the game were James Matthew, Ike Innis, and Graeme Browne & Kimbell Ward.

The second game of the three match finals will be played on Saturday 16th June at Warner Park where Newtown will be looking to win the series 2-0, while the Conaree will be looking to force a game 3, on Wednesdays 20th  June.