A FORGOTTEN rule has gifted the Swan Hill Lady Flyers a finals ticket, but now they must overcome top-of-the-table Bendigo Pioneers in tonight's do-or-die semi-final.

Swan Hill scraped into the top four of the Country Basketball League's (CBL) North West Women's conference, despite bottom-placed Kyneton Tigers finishing on equal points and a higher percentage.

According to the CBL operations man...