It was only fitting that the Yukon News' lone goal in the year-end broomball semi-final came off the stick of Chris Nash.

Nash, who finished the season with the squad's highest goal total, scored at around the halfway point of the game on a hard shot that eluded Whitehorse Flippers Pub goalie Alfie Dougherty.

The single goal on Thursday, coupled with a shutout from netminder Chris Sawyer, gave the News a 1-0 victory over Flippers Pub.

The Yukon News' next game will be Saturday when it takes on offensively dominant Coyne. Coyne secured a place in the final after it clobbered Flippers 8-0 on Wednesday.

Coyne is the league's defending champion and has been a formidable foe so far in this year's playoffs. The team has a record of 3-0, which includes a 3-1 victory over the Yukon News on Monday.

Both teams concluded the season with 13 wins, however, Yukon News finished in second place thanks to a single tie, while Coyne finished in third with 26 points.

Sawyer and Dougherty looked unbeatable in the early goings of Thursday's game.

The two goalies put on a clinic, maintaining a shutout game until well into the second period.

Nash's goal around the mid-point of the second frame prevented Dougherty from achieving a third shutout of the this year's playoff.

In what was a quick play, Nash walked in and fired a shot that got by an outstretched leg from the Flippers goalie. The ball landed in the far corner of the net.

Flippers best opportunity to tie the game came in the third on a three-on-none breakaway chance. Incredibly, Sawyer managed to get his blocker out and send the ball rolling off to the side where it was cleared.

With time ticking down, Flippers turned it up a notch, directing more than a few shots at the Yukon News' net.

Unfortunately for Flippers, a late penalty with around two minutes left in the contest took some wind out its sails.

To make matters worse the following face off was in Flippers' zone, making it impossible to pull Dougherty for the extra attacker.

After a couple more saves, Dougherty was able to finally make it towards the bench. At this point, however, there just wasn't enough time left on the clock for Flippers to set up anything. The buzzer sounded less than 30 seconds later.

Josh Hirsch, a forward on Yukon News, said qualifying for Saturday's final was a relief.

"We lost earlier in the round, so we had to come the long way."

He said he is looking forward to playing Coyne again.

"We flipped it back and forth all year," Hirsch said. "I think we were about even on the series, but they are playing really good right now, they're clicking. We are happy to have another shot, it should be a good game."

Hirsch said he hopes the team plays as well on Saturday as they did against Flipppers, adding Sawyer did a great job in net.

"He's a fantastic goalie," Hirsch said.

"We were quite an offensive team this year and we left him hanging a lot with some new defenseman and he's kept us in there all year. He faced a lot of shots this year, but our team scored more goals, had more offense than any other team this year because we knew we could trust our goalie."

Flippers player Milford Allain said despite the two playoff losses he is excited about having the chance to finish in the top three.

"We didn't make it there, but oh well, it's a learning experience," he said about the championship game. "Now we are going for third, so that's good."

He said fatigue was a bit of a factor on Thursday. Flippers played four games in the past five days.

"We definitely came out of the gates slow and playing the fastest team last night didn't help us."

Allain said Flippers will either play Capital Towing or Builders Supplyland on Saturday, adding his team will be pumped up no matter who it is.

"Everybody would like to beat the next team," he said. "Whoever it is they want to beat them."

In other broomball news, a clinic will be offered for adults on Sunday at the Canada Games Centre. It will run from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and teach the basics of the sport, including shooting, passing and stick handling.

Allain, who is also president of the Yukon Broomball Association, said he hopes to have a scrimmage as well.