IT'S not often you have the opportunity as mother and daughter to share in title success, but Tammy and Candice Clay have done that not once ? but now four times at Country level after their Hunter side again showed they're the powerhouse of women's rugby.
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Hunter have dominated the Country Championships since they were introduced and in Tamworth on Saturday made it 14 straight titles.
They were undefeated for the day beating hosts Central North 34-nil first up, the Hunter B team 27-nil and then Central West 31-nil.
It was an impressive display with the defending champions not conceding a point for the day and running in 16 tries, which for the equivalent of a game-and-a-half of rugby (they were 40 minute games) was a fantastic effort.
Coach Simon Ashworth was certainly impressed.
"They just executed the game plan," Ashworth said.
"The game plan was to keep the ball and move the other team around."
Then wait for the gaps to open up and play the gaps, which they did.
Hunter brought up two teams to the championships, taking the opportunity to develop some of their young talent through the B team, Ashworth said.
For Tammy Clay it was a bit of a homecoming.
"I watched my husband (Lee) play for years here (Tamworth Rugby Park)," she said.
She packed at tighthead prop while daughter Candice played on the wing, and well enough to earn a call-up to the Country side.
Not that it'll be her first time representing the Corellas. "We were both in the Country side last year," Tammy said.
And the year before that.
She started playing when they started the women's competition in Newcastle.
"I only wanted one game," she said.
Thirteen years later she's still running around, now alongside her daughter.
Both play for Wanderers, which is currently undefeated in the competition with a game to catch-up against Uni from last weekend.
"We also play league together," Tammy said.
They play with the Maitland Pickers, who are this year for the first time fielding a team in the Sydney Metropolitan women's competition.
Candice, particularly, is an equally talented league player having represented NSW at State of Origin level and earned selection in the Indigenous All Stars team.
It makes for a busy weekend with the league games on Friday night and rugby on Saturday, with possibly the occasional clash.
"It its (game) Saturday at 4pm I play union and Candice plays league," Tammy said.
Hosts Central North acquitted themselves well and had Warialda's Amie Clarke and Tamworth's Angie Hipwell selected in the Country squad.
