Boorowa Central School has won the South West Open League Tag Carnival played at Young on Tuesday.
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Despite having just 35 girls to pick from in secondary school, Boorowa overcame much greater sized opposition in Young's Hennessy Catholic College and Sacred Heart Cootamundra in the preliminary rounds before defeating Junee High School in the decider.
Boorowa has now qualified to contest the Riverina Open League Tag Finals at Wagga next term.
Coach of the side and teacher at Boorowa Central School Andrew Corcoran was hugely proud of his side.
"It's massive because we have girls from Year 7 to Year 12 so it's a really mixed team. We only have 35 girls in the whole high school so it's a big effort by everyone to do this," Mr Corcoran said.
"We beat some really good schools like Hennessy, Junee, Sacred Heart. It's amazing, you don't get many chances to beat those schools so we're very excited.
"We have 13 girls here today with 11 on the field at a time. They are all locals from Boorowa, Reids Flat, Murringo. It's a massive effort for a small school. We're excited to make it to the next level."
Boorowa defeated Hennessy 14-8 in the opening game and made it two on the trot when they outclassed Sacred Heart 10-0.
Their winning run continued in the final as they kept Junee scoreless and crossed for two tries on either side of the break.
Junee qualified for the final after wins over Hennessy Catholic College and Coolamon Central School.
Mr Corcoran identified Mackella Pye, Imogen Pye, Amanda Noakes, Abby Grant and Cheyenne Grocott as some of the standouts on the day.
