The Vukovi Belgrade will play the Budapest Wolves in CEFL Bowl after they beat the ASVÖ Gladiators 28-3 in Belgrade. Thus they completed the home teams’ sweep in the semifinals as the favorites went through. Perhaps harder than it looks by looking at the score, but deserved no doubt after they played much better, in the second half in particular.

The nationally televised game filled out Belgrade’s stadium with about 1000 people despite similarly cold weather to yesterday’s game in Budapest. The TV broadcast and pre-game festivities went as planned and the Vukovi are surely already thinking about doing it again.

Belgrade ended the first half up by four with the Gladiators hanging on and staying practically even with them; in the second the Vukovi picked it up a notch scoring two times to put the game away with under six minutes to play. Briton Burge’s touchdown sneak just put the icing on the cake with his short yardage touchdown.

The Vukovi didn’t destroy the Gladiators, but it was slow death for the Austrians as they found no answer for the Tasić brothers. Andrej finished with two touchdowns, first one for the lead and the second one to put the game out of reach. Pavle had one, but finished with more yards because of the 50 yard TD catch that increased the lead to 14-3.

The Gladiators’ last effort was when they stopped the Vukovi on 4th and goal from the one yard line. Soon after it didn’t matter anymore because Andrej Tasić broke free and scored his second touchdown.

Bernard Kamber’s long passes in the second half went nowhere and the Vukovi’s defense crowned it’s good play when Dušan Lalić and Ivan Ristić slammed Kamber hard to the ground. They had linebacker Miloš Todorović back after more than two months and he made his presence felt intercepting Kamber. Ivan Nedeljković did the same on the Gladiators’ first drive getting his hands on Kamber’s pass in the end zone.

The Gladiators scored just three points in the first half, on a 23 yard field goal by Manuel Houtz, though they could’ve done more.

The final will be played in two weeks in either Belgrade or Budapest. The decision for the host of CEFL Bowl will be made in the upcoming days.