EMU Valley Cricket Association reigning premier United will be fighting for survival when the final round of the season begins on Saturday.
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The Tigers enter the final round fourth, but are just 0.20 points ahead of fifth-placed West Bendigo.
United takes on Marong at Marong Links Oval.
While the Panthers are eighth on the ladder, they have won two of their past three games.
• In the match of the round, top side Mandurang hosts Axe Creek at Pearce Reserve.
A Mandurang win would cap an undefeated home and away season for the Rangas.
Axe Creek sits third on the ladder and is eyeing off what would be its first finals berth since it won its last flag in 2008-09.
• With the chance to still push into the top four and play finals, West Bendigo takes on Golden Gully at California Gully Oval.
The Redbacks kept themselves in the finals hunt last round with their win over United.
Golden Gully is struggling in seventh position, having gone winless in its past six games.
• Emu Creek will need to conjure an outright win over bottom side Maiden Gully to be any chance of climbing from sixth into the top four.
Maiden Gully playing at home will be fighting to avoid a winless season.
• Spring Gully ends its season with a tough assignment at home against the finals-bound Sedgwick.
• Ladder: Mandurang (169.8 pts); Sedgwick (136.4); Axe Creek (128.1); United (118.4); West Bendigo (118.2); Emu Creek (113.8); Golden Gully (93.0); Marong (78.1); Spring Gully (66.0); Maiden Gully (39.0).