The routine will intensify, as though it were Parramatta before a do-or-die NRL game.

``We'll train on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, have a team talk on Friday and have an early lunch before the game on Saturday,'' said Brett Hughes.

And as with Parramatta's late NRL romantic run this season, sporting fever is growing.

More than 200 spectators should be there to cheer on their team this Saturday.

Brett Hughes? Do-or-die games? More than 200 equating to the 20,000 fans who packed Parramatta Stadium late in the season? Romantic run?

Well, Brett Hughes is the bowls co-ordinator at Toongabbie Sports Club, lawn-bowls fever has hit, and there is no more romantic 2009 sporting story than that of the Toongabbie Titans.

The story tells of a club that applied for and was accepted into the NSW Premier League, of an amateur team playing against professional line-ups, several of them packed with international and representative players.

``We hoped to win three games,'' said ex-country boy Hughes.

The Titans have won six and will host the Taren Point Power, one of the wealthy powers, in the final round on Saturday.

If the Titans win, they can finish as high

as fourth.

Lose, and they can finish sixth or miss out altogether.

``A champion team will beat a team of champions,'' said Hughes, borrowing a football truism.

``Taren Point are full of Australian and New Zealand players.

``We'll be big underdogs, it's do-or-die but we haven't lost a game at home.

``We beat Raymond Terrace [the leaders] and they beat Taren Point.

``If we win, we'll get a home finals fame.''

SCOREBOARD: Cricket: Penrith 137 P'matta 8-97

Baseball: Orioles 6 Macarthur 4