Group 10 won the senior, under 18s, and league tag matches at Tony Luchetti Sportsground and Group 11 barely landed a punch on their Western Rams rival in any of the three contests.

The day started with a 44-4 league tag victory and it was followed by a 42-10 win in the juniors before the main match finished 20-6 in favour of the hosts.

In that senior match, Group 10's outstanding defensive effort proved the difference.

Group 10 coach Graeme Osborne described it as a wall of blue steel and it held Group 11 at bay despite the Alex Ronayne-led team having the majority of the possession and time in attacking territory.

"That was bloody unreal, like we gave everything at them, we just didn't bust them," captain-coach Ronayne said.

"Credit to those boys, they dig deep and were a better team than us by a mile. We kept playing and kept coming but we couldn't break them, like I said they were just too good for us."

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Group 10's defence forced Group 11 into a number of rushed plays and errors and the winning effort was made even more impressive given hooker Nick Loader was stretchered from the field with what is believed to be a snapped Achilles tendon inside four minutes.

Lock Jake Betts then switched to fill that role and fill it he did, making a glut of tackles in a man-of-the-match performance.

"Poor old Bettsy got knocked straight into hooker after poor old Nick done his ankle. We had to pull a bloke out of position to play hooker all game," Osborne said.

"But I think that probably steeled them, it made them more resilient."

That resilience impressed Osbourne given the side, much like Group 11, only came together late in the week and had been impacted by injury and players being unavailable.

"There was one time there just before half-time they defended five sets on their line. We did a little bit of work on our defence, the steel wall, blue steel," Osborne said.

"There's a good bond amongst them I think and that's the difference, we only had the one session together but they just all clicked together and bonded."

Saturday's win was Group 10's third in succession against Group 11, adding to their triumphs in 2019 (22-14) and 2018 (40-28).

Group 11's first chance of the match came four minutes after Loader was forced from the field when Ronayne charged down a kick.

As he chased through he had no players between him and the try line, but he knocked on while trying to regather.

However, Group 11 continued to pressure and when their next chance came they took it.

After forcing a line drop out, Brad Pickering rolled a grubber towards the right wing. Though Group 10's Desi Doolan won the race to the ball, he was unable to ground it as it bounced awkwardly. Jyie Chapman followed through and had the opener.

Pickering converted but as his side returned the ball from the kick-off, they knocked on.

Off the set which followed Group 10 equalised in spectacular fashion. A cross field kick from Toby Westcott was reeled in by Addison Williams, the Orange CYMS talent not only producing a brilliant leap but showing finger-tip control to pull the ball in before grounding it.

Tyler Colley nailed the sideline conversion to lock it up at 6-all.

Six minutes later Group 10 had the lead as second rower Greg Alderson went over and when Bathurst Panthers centre Jeremy Gordon scored off a scrum 40 metres out - Group 11 having been penalised for stripping - the hosts led 14-6.

That how it remained at the break and how it remained for much of the second half.

Group 11 came out hard after the break in search of the lead and while they twice had three consecutive sets in attack, they could not find a way through.

With eight minutes left Group 10 centre Keelan Bresac, who also had strong claims on the best on ground honour, came up with a 70 metre line break which switched the momentum of the game.

It carried Group 10 out of their danger zone deep into attack.

The next play Group 11 halfback Nick Greenhalgh was sin-binned for a professional foul and a minute later Colley stepped his way over and planted the ball between the sticks.

He converted his own try, icing a 20-6 victory.

"Three in a row, yeah it was beautiful. They played really well and they deserved it," Osborne said.

Ronayne singled out fullback Beale as the standout for his side but pointed to the ball handling errors as the biggest issue for his side.