To win two out of their three games was even more so.

The Boars found out on the Tuesday prior to the weekend's games that their games would be played on Saturday, which forced a number of outs due to work commitments.

The under-18s would also have to play their scheduled match against Tingha in Inverell, with A-grade and ladies league tag playing in Armidale against Narwan.

To make matters worse, they were unable to secure a bus to take the squad over to Armidale with all buses being booked out for the races on Saturday.

With A-grade regularly relying on a number of their juniors to back up each week, they were left short and Luke McDonald and Neville Sharpley stepped up to help out and give A-grade a team of 14.

"With player numbers, we tried to do our best to make sure we didn't forfeit, we wanted to keep going," Boars president and under-18s coach Todd Mitchell said.

"They stuck it out and I think they can hold their heads up quite high."

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With the under-18s making the trip to Inverell with just 12 players, the odds were stacked against them.

They lost three players throughout the match, playing around 20 minutes of the game with just nine players.

On top of that, one of their players was sin binned, but they managed to push through.

Tingha led the entire game but the Boars managed to stick with them, and with a couple of injured players returning to the field to give them 12 for the final five minutes, scoring a try under the posts in the dying minutes, the conversion sealing the 40-38 win.

"It was a really good effort by the boys," Mitchell said.

The Boars league tag performance was the highlight of the day, securing a massive 60-0 win against the Narwan Eels.

"They're getting better every week," Mitchell said.

"They're really building to something towards the back end of the year.

"It'll be a really tough game this weekend, the local derby, but the girls are going great."

The A-grade side took on a red hot Narwan Eels side with just a single player on the bench, and like the under-18s had to deal with a number of injuries.

One was concussed in the opening five minutes, while another dislocated his shoulder just 10 minutes later.

One persevered with a rib injury obtained in the first half but the final straw was an ankle injury forcing yet another player off the field early in the second half.

The two teams agreed to call off the match due to player welfare, the score at the time 48-6 to Narwan, and that's how the match ended up.

"If you can't compete anymore and be safe, for player welfare you don't continue," Mitchell said.

The injuries will hurt but Mitchell is confident they can still stay competitive for the rest of the season, with a number of players originally signed up to play reserve grade stepping up into first grade.

"To keep the club going all these blokes put their hand up to play first grade," Mitchell said.

"I tip my hat off to them, they're trying hard for the club."

Mitchell said if they can get everybody on deck to play, anything can happen, after staying competitive against ladder leaders Glen Innes and beating Narwan earlier in the season.

Their toughest test so far has been against local rivals the Boomerangs, with A-grade suffering heavy losses in both meetings and the league tag splitting wins.

They face each other for the final time in the regular season this weekend in A-grade, under-18s and league tag.