Italo Stars and Burringbar Bandits grabbed all the glory in round 5 of the Southern Cross Credit Union Women’s Premier League with excellent first up wins.

Stars took on the in form Lismore Thistles at Barrow Lane and came away with a solid 2 - 1 win. Goals to Carissa Halliday and Matilda Sochacki set the tone for the match with Thistles Rebecca Adams collecting the consolation goal for the away team.

Burringbar have had a tough start to their Premier League campaign in 2008 losing many key players and have struggled to find rhythm going down to Thistles, Rovers and Lennox Head so far.

The bandits are also notoriously poor on Sundays so with the Mothers Day fixture to contend with as well the Bandits had to dig deep to turn the tables on what is looking as a solid Richmond Rovers outfit.

Two goals to Morgan Lowe and another to Rachel Davis gave the home side the advantage and gave the girls something to share with their mums as they downed Rovers 3 - 2. Rovers grabbing some reward through Mala Roberts and Renee Parker.

Rovers will be hoping to turn around their poor run of form next weekend when they take on rivals Lismore Thistles at home.

Lennox Head continued their dominance over Alstonville with another shutout running in 4 goals with no reply. Chelsea Coleman put in another fine performance coming off the bench to grab a brace along with fine efforts from the dominant Sophie Towner and Abigail Allardyce.

Stars will hope some recent changes to team selection will give them enough to hold out league leaders Lennox Head when they meet on Sunday, but they will have to work extremely hard to halt the steamroller that is the Sharks who already have a comfortable 6 point lead over 2nd placed Thistles.

For Burringbar they will travel down to Alstonville with the hope that the “Villa’s” recent run of poor form will work to their advantage as the two teams meet up for the first time this season.

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