The Chattanooga Football Club beat the Maryland Bays 2-0 Friday night in the second semifinal game of the 2014 National Amateur Championships here in Chattanooga.
Chattanooga advances to play the Michigan Bucks Saturday night at 7:30 in the championship. The two teams are competing for the Hank Steinbrecher Trophy which is awarded to the top amateur team in the nation.
The tournament is in its third year and brings the top four amateur teams together to compete for the national amateur championship.
The four teams come from National Premier Soccer League, the United Soccer League's Premier Developemnt League and the US Amateur Soccer Aassociation's Open and Amateur Champions.
Chattanooga is coming off a 2-1 overtime loss to the Atlanta Silverbacks on Wednesday.
In Friday's game against Maryland, Chattanooga finaly broke through in the 54th minute when Luis Trude scored off a cross from Leo de Smedt to take a 1-0 lead.
CFC took a 2-0 lead on a Snoopy Davidson goal after a cross by CFC leading scorer Luke Winter.
Greg Hartley earned the shutout in the goal for Chattanooga.
Friday's game was the seventh game for Chattanooga in 20 days.