LYNN – The Classical and English boys will meet in the final of the Lynn City Soccer Tournament after winning their opening games Tuesday at Manning Field.This is the fourth year for the tournament, which pits four teams that play in three different leagues against each other with the prize being city bragging rights.In the opening game, Classical defeated Tech, 3-1, and in the nightcap, English topped St. Mary’s, 5-3.Click here for a photo gallery.The opening game featured Tech against three-time defending champion Classical. The Tigers opened scoring in the 23rd minute when Edwin Alas pushed a pass to Jose Diaz, who was standing 10 yards from the net. Diaz started left and reversed direction. He had the keeper out of position and slotted the ball into the right corner. Tech led 1-0.Classical evened the score in the 24th minute. The keeper deflected a free kick, and freshman Salvador Castro put it in over the sprawling keeper. The half ended in a 1-1 tie.The second half was only six minutes old when Classical sophomore Abdoulaye Bah put in a rebound off a great save by the Tech keeper, Kevin DeLeon, giving the Rams a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Two minutes later, Bah scored his second goal of the night on a cross from Salvador Castro that he put behind a sliding keeper. This pushed the score to 3-1, Classical.For the remaining 30 minutes, Tech threw everything it had at Classical, but the Ram defenders, Wilmur Lopez, Greg Rybak, Terry Finnegan and Joel Reyes, along with keeper Dammy Dada, held off the Tigers to advance to the finals Saturday at 2:45 p.m. at Manning Field.In the second half of the doubleheader, English nipped St Mary’s, 5-3, in an old- fashioned shootout.St Mary’s opened the scoring in the second minute. Jeremy Tranfaglia crossed the ball from the left side, where Zach Paone deflected it into the short side for a 1-0 Spartan lead. In the 20th minute, English freshman striker Leonel Awokang crossed the ball through the area to Alex Mulbah, who beat the keeper, Rob Goggin, with a bullet to the far post. This evened the score to 1-1. Two minutes later, Gabe Smith converted on a head ball to the short side. Jefferson Fubellah picked up the assist on the goal, putting the Bulldogs in front, 2-1. In stoppage time just before the end of the first half, English went ahead 3-1 on Mulbah’s second goal of the game with an assist to Fubellah. The pass came into the area, and as the keeper moved, Mulbah put the ball behind him. The half ended with English on top, 3-1.No lead was safe. In the 46th minute, the Spartans cut the lead to one goal as Julian Yourawski beat freshman keeper Nick Medeiros to the far post with an assist to Alex Glover. In the 66th minute, English opened up the lead to 4-2. Fubellah picked up his third assist of the game when he crossed it to Franck Wansi, who volleyed the ball into the net. At the 73-minute mark, the never-say-die Spartans closed the gap back to one goal. Anthony Capobianco beat Medeiros. The shot hit a defender and went into the net, cutting the deficit to 4-3.The icing on the cake for English came on a 40-yard breakaway by Awokang, who broke through the defense, faked the keeper and put it in the middle of the net for the 5-3 final.”English is a good Division 1 team,” St. Mary’s coach Mike D’Agostino said. “They have the size and the muscle.”D’Agostino, who is in his first year as head coach of the Spartans, said his team, which has only three seniors, seemed to run out of gas.”They (English) were more physical, more aggressive,” D’Agostino said. “(Coach) Kerry (King) has a talented team. They should do well.”On Saturday, St Mary’s will play Tech at 10:45 a.m. in the consolation game.