They were one-two in the Group 10 player of the year votes and Sophie Stammers and champion Liv Bird came up with the big plays in a corker of a clash with defending champions Bathurst St Pat’s.

Stammers scored her side’s only try, bursting on to a pass from sister Hannah to race into the backfield, then burn Australian University Sevens gun Darcie Morrison on the outside to score a grand final four-pointer to savour.

St Pat’s got back into the the game thanks to a 100-metre special from Bronte Emanuel and subsequent Mish Somers conversion to snatch a 6-4 lead.

Then it was all over to Liv Bird.

With Blayney awarded a penalty 10 metres out just to the right of the sticks, the 2016 player of the year slotted the two points.

Then, on the next set of six, Bird marched her side up field before potting the match-winning field goal.

Steve Mooney’s side defended the house down for the entire 50 minutes, so it came as no surprise to see the maroon and whites hold firm with five to go to secure the title.

“It means so much,” fullback Sophie Stammers said, her try a scintillating display of pace.

“It felt good (to score). My sister passed it to me, so that was cool. I wasn’t confident (of going around Morrison).

“I was actually looking for Han on the inside, but she had no tags.”

Stammers said Bird’s field goal was a shock – a pleasant one.

“We didn’t know she was going to do it. She just did it, but it worked out well,” Stammers laughed.

Steve Mooney was over the moon at full-time.

“The best part about it was their defence today,” he said.

“St Pat’s had probably 70 per cent of the ball and we just hung in. We frustrated them out of it.”

Mooney knew exactly what Bird had planned when the game was on the line.

The now premiership-winning coach said the one-pointer was always in the works, a successful one that has the small-town Group 10 club “on the map”.

“The girls are keeping the club going. They do a lot of the work in the canteen and they’re just good kids,” he said.

“They’re young, too They’ll be a good side for a long time.”

St Pat’s mentor Mick Armstrong said a dominant period in the opening half where his side just couldn’t quite crack the Bears defence proved telling.

“We had a lot of ball in the first 15 minutes and just couldn’t convert it,” he lamented.

“It was going to be one of those days where the game was close.”