THE Orana Outlaws are bound for the Sydney Cricket Ground and captain Mitch Bower believes there's no reason his side can't win the inaugural Plan B Regional Bash.

The Outlaws were clinical on Friday night as they defeated the South Coast Crew by five wickets under lights at No. 1 Oval.

Rain earlier in the evening meant the game started two hours later than scheduled but when it did the Outlaws came out firing and rolled the visitors for just 80.

There were a couple of wobbles in the run chase but the home side were always in control and reached the target for the loss of just five wickets with more than six overs to spare.

The victory means the Outlaws now head to the SCG for the finals gala day on December 6 and Bower is confident his side has what it takes to get past the Border Bullets in the semi-final.

"We came into this game a little blind, we didn't know many of them, and it's going to be the same there," he said.

"We don't know a whole heap about them but we're not that interested in them.

"We'll stick to our game and if we know any of them we'll get some inside info but we'll play our own game and keep our game plan."

After winning the toss and batting, things didn't begin well for South Coast on Friday when Ben Strachan struck in just the second over before Jacob McNaught got in on the act three balls later.

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Strachan, who went on to be named man of the match, finished with 2-10 from his four overs and set the tone for the win.

"Early wickets are very important when starting a Twenty20 and 'Strachany' got a couple of early ones and we capitalised from there," Bower said.

"That's what we talked about before the game and from the openers our spinners Greg (Buckley) and 'Rabs' (Anthony Heraghty) did a great job and tied up an end and went for bugger all, and it's easy to captain a side when you've got guys doing a job like that so I can't speak highly enough about the whole side tonight."

Buckley finished with 3-22 from his four overs and Heraghty took 1-17 while Ben Patterson was hugely impressive at first change and claimed 2-11.

Ben Hamilton (23) and Charlie Dummer (21) were the only South Coast players to make double figures as the visitors struggled without their three unavailable marquee players.

If South Coast were any chance of winning they needed early wickets and Hamilton provided a moment of magic when he took a brilliant catch to dismiss Jordan Moran with the score on 12.

Fellow opener Anthony Heraghty really kick-started the run chase and made 21 but the game was sealed when Buckley and Mick Curtale came together.

The pair were responsible but also pummelled anything loose as they added 36 for the fourth wicket.

Both fell before the target was reached but Patterson was on hand to hit the match winning runs.

"We've got a game at the SCG now and at the start of the tournament we set our aim to make it there," Bower said.

"We've done it and pretty convincingly as well so as a captain it was made easy and all the boys did everything and ticked the boxes so we're looking forward to getting down there now and hopefully getting a win."