With a grin on her face, Lilly Baker confirmed they're a happy team at the Hawks on the eve of Group 10 finals.

The under-18s and opens league tag gun is set for finals with both of her outfits, and they're following reserve grade and Premier League minor premier sides boldly into the pointy end of the season.

She and teammate Courtney Morgan have been jumping between under-18s and opens all season, and while the former finished top of the table and have the week off, the latter have a rematch against CYMS on Saturday.

Baker missed Saturday's 16-10 loss last week in the derby, but Morgan said the side had worked hard at training to reverse the result against the red-hot CYMS.

"It's been a bit of everything, a lot of communication," she said.

"I"m sure this weekend we'll come out firing and play hard and focus on our sets."

Both girls said jumping between the two sides had huge benefits and had helped bring the club closer together.

"I feel like we have a lot more mentoring in opens, they teach us a lot and teach us, it's a higher intensity game, it's definitely faster," Baker said.

"We can teach the girls when we come down to 18s training," Morgan added.

While the league tag side has the benefit of the double chance, the reserve grade outfit doesn't have the same luxury.

They have a do-or-die clash with Panthers, but it's not something that's fazing the side's fullback Glen Maxwell, nor second rower Jayden Gibbs-O'Neill.

The former said the side still had the belief they could take the overall prize despite finishing the home-and-away season in fifth - although he said the finish didn't reflect the side's season.

"We could have ended up there in third spot, fell off there towards the end but we're ready to go," he said.

"We've had good defence [all year], good scrambled defence and been able to get a few tries in the middle there and coming off the back foot, playing out wide in attack."

He's not daunted by the prospect of chasing down a title win from fifth, and said the prospect of do-or-die finals from here on out was something the side would have to deal with.

"It's not going to change anything now, they won and we finished fifth so we'll take the hard road," he said.

Gibbs-O'Neill doesn't have a massive wealth of experience in finals, but is expecting to stay cool as a cucumber from kick-off.

"I don't really get fired up, just stay cool, calm and collected until the start of the gig, get a first hit-up, first tackle then you're in the game," he said.

"I take it as a normal game, go through like that. Stay relaxed and have fun, not everyone plays finals, so make the most of it."

He pumped up his teammate with tongue in cheek, labelling the side able to knock off any other in finals off the back of his fullback's work this season.

"We've got Maxy out the back, he's pretty dangerous," Gibbs-O'Neill said laughing.

He admitted coming up against Panthers would be a challenge, the Bathurst side having pipped them twice this season by narrow margins, but the equation to beating them was simple - eliminating mistakes.

"Silly mistakes like dropped balls, penalties in the second half and stuff like that," he said of the factors which cost them those two wins.

But both of them admitted the club was absolutely buzzing coming into finals, especially off the back of the premier league side's first top-of-the-table finish since 2013.

"It's unreal hey, everyone's around each other, ready for finals time," he said.

"It's been a while since the club finished on top, and it's pretty cool."

The CYMS v Hawks league tag final begins at 2pm in Bathurst, while the Hawks' reserve grade clash with Mudgee at Tony Luchetti Sportsground at 3pm on Saturday.