Riverside Olympic coach Alex Gaetani afforded himself a rare treat after watching his side beat cross-town rivals Launceston City 2-1.
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"I'll have a look at the ladder for the first time this season," he said after seeing the third Northern derby of the campaign finish 2-1 and the second in his side's favour.
Having not played in the two previous clashes, Olympic's pair of popular returning strikers Ryan McCarragher and Chris Wademan scored their goals early in each half as City produced plenty of chances but only took one as Noah Mies rediscovered his goal-scoring touch.
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"I'm pretty happy with that," Gaetani added.
"At half-time we were lucky not to be behind so it was a matter of improving. We made a few positional changes and that helped.
"In the second half we could have had more. We weren't at our best, but I think we did enough to win the game.
"In the last few weeks we've been a bit unlucky and maybe we were a bit lucky today."
City counterpart Lino Sciulli was a bit more blunt in his assessment.
"We should have put the game away before half-time but did some stupid defending and conceded a dumb goal," he said.
"After that we did not look like putting the ball in the net again and we've lost a game we'd banked on winning."
Olympic's recent revival produced their fourth win of the season and a second against City to go with two against Clarence.
Again they needed Jarrod Hill at his best between the posts and were helped by some good fortune, not least their sixth-minute opener.
In his first start since rejoining the team, McCarragher slid in to block Nick Thorne's attempted clearance and the resulting smother flew past luckless former Olympic junior Will Smith in City's goal.
City were level by the quarter-hour mark, Mies taking advantage of a slip by Drew Sykes to rifle home.
The versatility of McCarragher came to the home side's rescue on the half-hour when reliable skipper Ethan Olner was forced off with a hamstring injury and Olympic's goal-scorer reverted to his native centre-back position, wasting little time introducing himself to the dangerous Mies.
Luca Vigilante and Sam Davis came close to restoring Olympic's lead before Wademan struck on 52 minutes, cashing in on some good work from Matt Spanos to steer in his seventh goal in as many games since arriving from Yorkshire.
Squandering the chance to climb into fifth, City instead dropped to seventh as Glenorchy leap-frogged them with an 8-0 defeat of bottom-placed Clarence. Hat-tricks to Alex Lezczynski and Declan Brown and singles to Nick Naden and Sam Jones did the damage.
Champions and ladder leaders Devonport made heavy work of defeating Kingborough 2-1 at Valley Road. A late Joel Stone free-kick sealed the points after a Max Fitzgerald penalty had been cancelled out by Keenan Douce.
Northern championship
Ladder leaders Northern Rangers took a giant leap towards the Northern Championship title with a 1-0 win at closest rvals Devonport.
A first-half Tenzing Andersen free-kick proved the difference and put Rangers eight points clear at the top, but coach Rod Fulton was honest in his assessment.
"I think Devonport were probably the better side," he said.
"It was a huge win with a lot at stake and Devonport knew how important it was too. Sometimes it's not always good football that wins out, it's grit, determination and heart and the boys were very sore by the end."
A week after reaching the high point of their season with a 5-0 win at Rangers, third-placed Launceston United were brought back down to earth with a 5-2 loss at Burnie United.
"We were pretty ordinary," said United coach Glenn Reading after his side produced two Yasin Mohammadi penalties in a game which saw two sending offs.
Sixth-placed reigning champions Riverside Olympic turned on the Will Coert show to defeat Launceston City 4-0 at Windsor Park.
A couple of hours before making a cameo appearance in the NPL, the speedy winger scored twice and earned a penalty which Rhys Kinslow ruthlessly dispatched with Mitch Roberts wrapping up the first-half scoring.
The result was enough for Olympic coach Andy Hall to release his inner Beatle.
"We had to get back to playing how we can and I enjoyed watching it all come together with a fab four," he said before letting it be.
Fourth-placed Somerset were beaten 2-1 by lowly Ulverstone at Cardigan Street.
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