Various iterations of the Orange City side lining up on Saturday have won the last 12 Orange Netball Association division one titles under one name or another.
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Twelve. Half a dozen.
Their opponents on Saturday started primary school in the first year of that title run, at five or six years old, and now - mostly - at 17 and 18, but that's not the reason this decider will be entirely unlike any over the last decade.
Orange City coach Cindy Gilchrist said the sides had trained together and worked with each other over 2020.
Now, they'll go head-to-head on the ONA's biggest stage.
"We've had a lot to do with Orange High this season and we're stoked for them and we hope they're stoked for us. Now it's like... it's anyone's game," Gilchrist said.
"This is difficult, but I think we're all mature enough and it will be different again to the game we played against life studio and the game OHS played against Life Studio but everyone wants to win it just as much."
On paper it might not be the best team but the friendship gets us through.
- Orange City captain Cindy Gilchrist
She said while the two sides know each other well, that knowledge will only increase Saturday's spectacle.
"I think so, it's just going to be a great clash. You never know but I'm so confident whatever happens on Saturday, the best team will win," she said.
"We're not cocky about it, it'll be a challenge and we're going to have to fight tooth and nail.
"They're not just high school students, these are the number one team in the competition alongside us. They didn't get in the grand final just because."
Gilchrist is hoping the Hornets bring their A-game.
"I hope they do, I hope they bring the best game they can possibly bring and so do we, because then it's an outstanding match and whoever walks away at the end of the way deserves it," she said.
That said - Gilchrist still wants to win.
"I don't get tired of them," Gilchrist said of the side's 13th decider in a row - albeit she hasn't been in the side for the whole time.
"It's a different team again. It's exciting for the girls and that makes me excited. I'm hoping that a level head will win the grand final this week."
"It's been such a weird season, half a season. In a normal year we'd only hit our straps now and have another seven rounds to go, but we don't have that - it's this weekend."
In 2020 - a year where everything we've known as normal has been tossed overboard - could Orange City's 12-year streak come to an end while chasing unlucky number 13?
Gilchrist isn't buying into superstition.
"They're a brilliant bunch of girls there for each other, and they trust each other and trust me. On paper it might not be the best team but the friendship gets us through."
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