The performance, a stirring 20 - 10 rout in the Rams favour has not only booked the Western representative side into the semi-finals, but ensured that the under 18s will get plenty of rest across the next week.

"I'll give these boys a week off now, they've definitely covered some kilometres, we've been all over, who knows where we'll end up in the semi-finals," Hancock laughed after the game.

The Rams got out to an early lead off the back of Sam Lane, but went tit-for-tat until Lachlan Lawson powered forward to put the Rams ahead 12 - 6.

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Lithgow's Cooper Egan gave the Rams a 12 point lead with another try, but the finishing touches for the scoreboard came when Braye Porter slotted a penalty.

Despite some late lapses and some simple errors that could have cost the Rams their lead, and allowed the Tigers the chance to narrow the gap, Hancock was impressed with how his team held together under pressure.

"It's good, it's good for the boys, it's even good that we probably weren't quite at our best today," Hancock said.

"You can't always be at your best and the Tigers are a very tough side, they hung in there well today, defensively they were very physical and they ran the ball really hard, we were under a lot of pressure."

Hancock said that in the face of the Tigers doing 'all the little things well' it was imperative that the Rams' defence hold up, and he was pleased to see it did.

"I thought our defence was outstanding today, a couple of times we had crucial errors and we were under pressure, we answered that with our defence and we earned a couple of tries down the other end," Hancock said.

"We were a little off with our skills, our passing and running, we turned the ball over too much, but we'll fix that up."

Hancock said the Rams side were 'over the moon' to be in the finals again, after last year's final rounds were cancelled due to COVID-19.

"It's great for the Rams, we're in the finals and we'll get to play on."