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Raiders had won just one of their last 71 games, while North produced one of the finest finals performances in coming from a game down in the three-match format last season to topple Lavington's all-time great pace attack and claim the 50-over premiership.

The win has sent the region's sports fans searching for similar upsets.

Ovens and Murray football has naturally had a stack of upsets over its 126-year history, but three, in particular, stand out in the modern era.

Myrtleford defeated Albury by 18 points in round two, 2012.

The Tigers were at home and coming off three successive premierships, while Myrtleford had posted only six wins the previous year.

The Saints boasted a number of current-day stars, including Hugh Wales and Matt Dussin, while future Fremantle defender Matt Taberner was full-forward.

"The thing I remember most was (former Collingwood player and ex-Pies and Fremantle assistant coach) Stan Magro had drilled and got us ready for that game for what felt like nearly 12 months," current co-captain Dussin said.

"He had us motivated that we were going to win and he told us how we were going to beat them, this is what we're going to do and really made us believe that we can beat them."

Dussin believes it was the day another current team-mate in Wales arrived as an elite player, with his lethal left foot and Harley Ryan carving up the home side with the experienced Magro choking back tears in the jubilant dressing room.

"That's probably the biggest upset I've had that one," Dussin said.

Albury was also involved in the next stunning league upset when Wangaratta Rovers inflicted only its second loss of the season in the final round of 2015 by 16 points.

"We had to win to avoid the wooden spoon and we'd never claimed it before," veteran Sean O'Keeffe said.

"The senior players were committed to make sure it didn't happen and moreso for the stalwarts around the club.

"It's definitely the biggest upset in my time at Rovers and it was (coach) Pauly Maher's last game, we just wanted to give him a good send-off."

And Wodonga snapped Albury's 23-match winning streak with a 40-point hiding in 2017.

"Our pressure was unbelievable, it was one of the best games I've played in," midfielder Reed Jackson said.

Elsewhere, Wodonga had racked up a 27-match winning streak in 1969-70, but bombed out in straight sets in the finals, while in 1964, Rovers had won 15 straight, lost three in a row and then ended up winning the flag.