Making themselves at home on the new bottom pitch at Prospect Park, City scored in each half to quadruple their points advantage over opponent Clarence.

Dan Smith was the architect of the 26th-minute opener, his flick header putting in Yasin Mohammadi whose shot was saved only for Smith to steer in the rebound.

A week after producing an injury-time equaliser across town at Windsor Park, the Zebras experienced the opposite emotion as City wrapped up a 2-0 win with the last kick of the game.

Gedi Krusa's fitness proved pivotal, the Lithuanian surging away from his own half, exchanging passes with Stef Tantari and finishing with style.

"It was a fantastic goal because we were under the pump at the time," said City coach Lino Sciulli.

"I just wanted them to keep hold of it but the boys thought they could do better than that. As usual they don't do what the coach says."

Sciulli said the club was proud to get the win for Linger who reached the three-figure milestone at just 21 years of age.

"It was a really good first half where we played some great football.

"We took our foot off the throttle in the second half but still fought it out well and it's great to get another three points."

A month after South Hobart and its French centre-back Loic Feral won 4-0 at RIVERSIDE, it was deja vu all over again.

Seeing the likes of Feral up against teenagers like Toby Simeoni evokes the cliché men against boys but for long periods the home side held its own against Ken Morton's perennial powerhouse.

"That's our season," said Olympic assistant coach Alan Eadie.

"We have spells where our best is as good, if not better than, other teams, but then one mistake or lapse changes the game.

"At times we were in it but overall it was a patchy performance. We had moments in the first half to be in the game and the final product probably hurt us and in the second half their class shows through and they're a tough team to bring back.

"I felt we made good steps last week and maybe did not meet the same mark this week so took a step backwards."

A week after a 93rd-minute Clarence equaliser denied Olympic their first win of the season, it was a lot more one-sided.

Nick Morton's seventh-minute opener actually prompted Riverside's best spell of the game but the contest fell away after Morton doubled his tally from the spot when Will Humphrey upended Kasper Hallam.

Dan Nash was largely responsible for keeping it close but his luck was summed up in the exceptional save he made to deny Lachlan Semmler on 65 minutes only to see the rebound fall kindly for Hugh Undy to tuck in.

Sam Berezansky added a fourth moments later but Nash still found time to deny Morton a hat-trick from the spot - after Tom Prince had taken his turn bringing down Hallam - and another full-length dive to thwart Alex Brown late on.

The battle between top two Devonport and Glenorchy finished in a 1-1 draw while Kingborough beat Olympia 2-1.

The battle between the runaway leaders in the Women's Northern Championship went the way of Ulverstone which recorded a pivotal 2-0 win at second-placed NORTHERN RANGERS.

Rangers were without the influential Abbie Chugg who was in isolation and it was just their second loss in 15 games while Ulvy have now won 15 out of 16.

Third-placed RIVERSIDE kept up the pressure by beating LAUNCESTON UNITED 3-0 courtesy of a Meg Connolly double and another from Margaret White.

Olympic coach Jo Haezebrouck gave the frank assessment: "Sloppy first half with no intensity but an improved second where we created a lot of chances and the scoresheet could have been much higher on another day."

A Zali Kirkman penalty enabled LAUNCESTON CITY to draw 1-1 with Burnie.

"It was a hard fought game, let's leave it at that," said City coach Barry Baker.

Veteran Chris Pickering was an influential figure against his old side as LAUNCESTON UNITED beat RIVERSIDE OLYMPIC 2-0 in the men's competition.

Having played a full reserve game in the morning, the wily striker came off the bench, scored the second goal then kept a clean sheet between the sticks after Oscar Scharapow was sent off.

"Pickers" was fairly modest about his pivotal involvement for Fernando Munoz's team.

"I only played about 80 in the reserves," he clarified.

"I came on and just did the jobs the coach told me to do: right wing, centre mid and then goalie.

"I go in goal at training sometimes so Fernando told me to do it. I did not really have to make a save so I was happy."

Earlier, Christian Byard had given United the lead and Scharapow had made some excellent saves while opposite number Ash Cartledge kept his side in it by keeping out Aidan Rigby's penalty.

NORTHERN RANGERS drew 3-3 with Ulverstone courtesy of Sam Wagner and a Wes Chugg double.

LAUNCESTON CITY needed two late goals to draw 2-2 with Burnie United.

Sub Jack Harper and Nick Thorne hit the scoresheet while Charlie Dyer, Will Rodman and keeper Ari Johnson were excellent and "showed real character" according to coach Justin Dyer.