The Hawks pulled out their championship-winning form early in the contest, wasting no time as recent goal attack addition Courtney Treloar and marquee Hawks shooter Ashlea Mawer continued to build chemistry.

The pairing, along with fellow attacker Kendall Jones, helped get their side to a 23-point lead at half-time.

"Ash had a ripper game and Courtney slotted in really easily," Hawks acting captain Gemma Poke said.

"Kendall moved over to wing attack as well, having that forward line of Ash, Courtney and Kendall worked really well for us."

Saturday night's game wasn't without technical issues, however, with one scoreboard shorting out and the centre's lights going out in the final term.

The visiting Hawks continued to blood their substitutions regularly throughout the game, ensuring the entire team got game time leading up the to three-week break.

"Rolling subs is a really big part of our gameplan now," Poke said.

"Making sure that we get fresh legs and messages to people when we need to and just change things up if things are getting a little bit out of whack."

The night was also special for the Hawks' 19-and-under coach Kellie Tahiri, who earned her elite accreditation - the highest tier of coaching one can achieve in Australia.

A hard-fought first term saw the Cavaliers overcome third-placed Waratah in Hobart late on Saturday night, downing them 50-42.

The game got off to a turnover-heavy start, but the visiting Cavs were able to land on the better end as the match progressed.

However, Waratah managed to keep things tight stringing together multiple goals to bring themselves withing four at the final turn.

"We got caught up in their [Waratah's] style of play a little bit," Cavs co-coach Dannie Carstens said.

"One of the focusses in training last week was working off the body, which they did quite well defensively.

"We didn't really incorporate a lot of that in Saturday's game.

"It wasn't our best performance and we certainly didn't execute our style of play ... but we still managed to grind out an eight-point win."

Despite being down key attacker Zoe Claridge, the girls in green and black managed to eek out the win.

"Full credit to Cripps ... they're third on the ladder and the style of defence they brought out in today's game was really aggressive.

"You've got to expect the third-best team ... it just forces us to keep being better for next time." The Cavs play Karana on Sunday.

The Northern Hawks will enter the three-week break full of gusto, after defeating fourth-placed Arrows 79-40 in Hobart.

The Sunday morning victory saw top performances all-round from the reigning premiers, in particularly wingers Gabbi Groves and under-19 representative Lauren Spencer.

"Gabbi came on in wing defence and played a cracking roll for us," Hawks acting captain Gemma Poke said.

"She was able to get good turnovers off the ball ... she got some really pivotal plays for us.

"That was someone I was definitely impressed with on Sunday."

Poke said she believed the Hawks had accomplished all it could as they enter a three-week netball hibernation.

"We spoke at three-quarter-time and said let's play this next 15 minutes the way we want the rest of the season to go," she said.

"We had that forward-thinking vision heading into the last quarter, we really did put the foot down and run it out.

"We have stuff to work on still, but we're really happy with the intensity we ran the game out with."

After a disappointing win over Waratah on Saturday, the Cavs bounced right back to extinguish the Karana Flames 79-15 in Hobart on Sunday.

Co-coach Dannie Carstens said she was pleased with how her team re-grouped to put on an assertive four-quarter performance against the Flames.

"It's always great to walk away with a win but if we're going to be wanting to achieve what we want every week, we've got to be scrutinising every detail where we can make an impact," she said.

"We talked about our balance in attack - making sure we have that nailed down.

"Defensively ... we probably gave too much space on Saturday, we just needed to make sure we stayed connected.

"On Sunday, we executed that really well for four quarters."

Heading into the three-week break, Carstens said the team would continue workshopping rotations.

"We've got to make sure we've got combinations ready to go off the break because essentially, we'll be facing these two teams when we get back," she said.

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