Unfavourable weather conditions necessitated the highly anticipated grand final between last year's champions the Dubbo Rhinos and the newly introduced Newtown Tigers be postponed, but the eventual arrival of the game was made bigger because of it, according to Dubbo Rhino's Edwin Jacobs

"To get to play on Victoria Park's oval, under the lights, for the very first time, that was incredible," Jacobs said.

The unexpected rainfall forced the game to be moved from South Dubbo Oval to the main grounds at Victoria Park, where the grand final clash ended in a nail-biting finish, with the Newtown side being crowned champions after a hard fought twenty overs.

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"Newtown came down with a really, really good team, we lost the finals, which was a little bit disappointing, but at the end of the day, only one of the teams can win," Jacobs said.

"Newtown has a lot of talent and experience, which was good for our side, we were really, really happy with our performance, having not played with the stitch ball much before."

"There was only thirteen runs separating us and to make it to the finals after beating a lot of teams from Sydney, in those terms, we're really happy, it was really close and we gave a good fight."

Newtown were able to secure first batting rights and found comfort with Chris Newbold's opening 22 runs early on, but the batsman - who's stood in fine form throughout the competition - was bowled out by the Rhino's Sanu Joy shortly after and the runs seemed to dry up for Adam Stone (10) and Steve Skinner, who was caught out for a duck.

A man of the match worthy performance from Lee Price put the Newtown side back on track, with his efforts adding a further 27 runs to the total before he was caught out, and Brayth Stevenson adding another 14 before his dismissal.

Mitch Lincoln and Kevin Newbold combined to put up 40 runs in Newtown's final overs, holding out until their innings was concluded at a total of 142/5.

The Rhinos had a packed out crowd of fans cheering them on, but their run chase wasn't able to match Newtown's consistency, despite the heroic efforts of Jerose Joseph and Anoop AK, who put up 39 and 46 runs each respectively.

Despite the effort of the two middle order batsmen, the defending champions were unable to close the gap in time, and left the contest with fewer wickets and 13 fewer runs than their rivals, with the final score 142/5 - 129/7.

The dethroned Dubbo Rhinos were gracious in defeat, with Jacobs thanking everyone who came along, as well as the competition's sponsors like Brett Harvey Constructions, for making the event's return possible.

Invigorated by the enthusiastic response, Jacobs and other organisers floated the possibility of the competition staying at Victoria Park for next year's competition, as well as an attempt to branch out into other sporting arenas, with football as an area where Jacobs believes there is plenty of overlap between community and athletes.

"At the end of the day learning so much from each other and that kind of community exposure is what this is all about, this is a small town, we shouldn't be isolated."