Tasmania's two top teams will face off for the first time this season at St Helens on Saturday.
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The Northern Hawks and Cavaliers will lock horns in a 2020 grand final rematch.
The teams are equal first on the league ladder, and are the only two teams to score 200 points or more in the first three games by a wide margin.
Cavs co-coach Dannie Carstens said St Helens was a special place for the netballing, and particularly, the Cavs community.
The East Coast township will be in for a treat, with Carstens saying the match will feature two teams vastly different from their 2020 counterparts.
"I think the Hawks have changed the way they played a little bit more movement from Ashlea Mawer coming out of the circle more," she said.
"And with our team defensively - we're had a lot more experience in there this year as opposed to last year and more of a moving circle as well. Watch this space - it'll be exciting."
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The side will welcome back attacker Zoe Claridge from injury, and bring under-19s player Dani Laugher into the opens rotation.
After a two-week break, Hawks captain Danni Pickett said her side was healthy and ready to rumble.
"We're feeling very refreshed and [we've] just been training really hard and looking forward to the weekend, knowing the Cavs are undefeated as well," she said.
Both clubs' under-19 teams will face-off earlier that afternoon. The St Helens match will count as the Hawks' first home game.
Pickett said a few Hawks players would venture to the coast early to help with morning junior games.
"Hopefully we can give the St Helens crowd a good show and put on a couple of good games of netball," she said.
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