A young Tegan Dray was lining up for the Robin Hood side - which now goes under the name Orange City Craig Harvey Mechanical.

On Saturday, 12 years on and 12 Orange City titles in a row later, she'll be lining up against Orange High School again - the very team she's coached to the Toyota Cup grand final.

The students made their way to the decider after a thrilling one-point win over minor premiers Life Studio in the semi-final, setting up a mouth-watering clash between two sides which have shared more than Dray in season 2020.

The two sides have trained together and played scratch matches for more than half of the shortened 2020 season, and to meet each other in the grand final is not so much a clash of bitter rivals, but akin to a younger sibling taking on the older, smiles on both faces.

Hornets skipper Tabua Tuinakauvadra said making the grand final was beyond what they'd imagined from the year.

"It still feels unreal, us playing the semi the way we did and being able to win by one point," she said.

"It's slowly sunk in, we're still talking about it from the weekend and stuff, it's just great to be in the final.

"It's something we definitely wanted to achieve, one of our goals was getting to finals but [actually] getting here is still unreal."

She said making the final was a nice reward to cap off what had been an otherwise difficult year.

"I guess coming from a year 12 perspective it's something which boosted our year, especially with everything that's going on, to do that with girls I go to school with is something I'm really grateful for and I appreciate," she said.

"This whole season has been crazy, playing each team once and the restrictions, it's crazy to come out of it still sane.

"To be able to still have a season was really good and to be able to make the final is just crazy."

Tuinakauvadra said the chance to end a 12-year streak was something which was driving the side.

"It's definitely a motivation, to kill the streak I guess, just having nothing to lose so you go in and try your best," she said.

Dray said she was proud of her charges for taking out the nail-biting semi-final clash.

"It was a little bit nerve-wracking but the biggest emotion was just excitement for them and the girls have just been enjoying that feeling over the last couple of days," she said.

"When it gets to this end of the season it's a big mental battle.

"They've got the skills, they've got the physicality, they have the knowledge of their opposition, it's just going to be all mental and they need to bring it together on the day."