Orange Hawks and Orange CYMS are in very, very different positions with three rounds left in the Group 10 league tag regular season.
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Hawks are unbeaten, flying high atop the standings and with a bye this week, are one more win away from securing the club’s first league tag minor premiership.
That win should come in the penultimate round against seventh-placed Cowra.
The two blues have swept all who’ve come before them, a draw against last year’s champions Blayney the only smudge on an otherwise untarnished season.
They boast the best attacking and defensive records in the competition, with average scorelines of 31-6 in their favour.
CYMS on the other hand, is staring down the barrel of missing the finals for the first time since entering the competition in 2013.
Sitting sixth, the green and golds are four points shy of Lithgow in fifth.
Every game becomes a must-win for the 2013 runners-up, especially their round 17 clash against the Workies.
But before that CYMS face Oberon, in Oberon.
The Tigers have won just one game and conceded a whopping 686 points – 454 more than CYMS – and playing on home turf seems to yield little advantage.
The one game Oberon’s won was in Mudgee.
CYMS romped home 62-0 last time around, and are coming off a 46-4 victory over Mudgee.