Club Maitland City will be aiming to make it third time lucky and claim victory in Saturday's preliminary final.
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But in their way are The George Tavern, the grand finalist from the past four seasons and 2015 and 2017 premiers.
CMC has bowed out of the Maitland netball A-grade finals at the preliminary final stage for the past two seasons.
Last year they were defeated 44-36 by The George Tavern, who were beaten by Hills Solicitors 45-41 in the grand final.
In 2017 Hills Solicitors beat CMC 53-33 only to lose the grand final to The George.
The George looked like missing the finals this year, however, in a late-season surge they grabbed fourth spot and defeated Nexus Power 39-31 in atrociously windy conditions in the elimination final.
CMC went down in the major semi-final 54-34 to reigning premiers Hills.
CMC have won their two encounters against The George this year.
