Caversham returned to top form to beat Mosgiel 3-0 in an incident-ridden Footballsouth Premier match at the Caledonian Ground on Saturday.
Initially, little separated the teams, and possibly Mosgiel had the edge as halftime approached.
However, in the space of a few minutes, Caversham forged ahead with two goals and Mosgiel was reduced to 10 men after Tim Dunn was red-carded for a wild tackle.
What might have been an optimistic team talk at the break for Mosgiel became damage limitation, while Caversham swept forward in the second spell with an extra man in attack.
Patrick Fleming, who had scored Caversham's second goal with a thunderous direct freekick, combined well with key midfielder Darren Overton, as Ant Hancock, Hamish Chang and Anton Ross harried the Mosgiel defence.
Keeper Andrew James worked hard to make up for his error that set up Overton for a simple tap-in for the first goal. Mosgiel's central defence of Matt Brook and Tom Bekkers rode its luck to survive several low crosses that might have produced another couple of Caversham goals.
Yet even with 10 men, Mosgiel still constructed several flowing moves that ended with shots at goal.
Both sides missed clear chances as an Overton chip narrowly sailed over Mosgiel's crossbar, and Reg Coldicott beat everyone, including the keeper, but shot wide of an open goal.
The Mosgiel striker went close again with a fierce left-footed shot, but slumped down pole-axed immediately afterwards, and had to be stretchered off to hospital with a suspected fractured ankle.
Keeper James then showed his best and worst with two brilliant close range blocks, then was embarrassed when Ross drilled a low shot between his legs to wrap up a convincing 3-0 result for Caversham.
Caversham coach Richard Murray was not too happy with his side's finishing.
"We should have got more shots on target. But our closing down and pressurising was very good," he said.
Mike McGarry was philosophical.
"I was disappointed with the loss, but not with the way we played. We had good chances to score that would have changed the game, and being reduced to 10 men made things difficult." In other matches, Dunedin Technical returned to form with a crushing 9-0 win over bottom side Green Island that takes the team's FPL goal tally to a round 50 in nine matches this season Tom Webby led the way in Northern's impressive 6-3 win in Queenstown. University's Zac Rathbone scored the only goal of the match to beat Roslyn-Wakari 1-0 at Ellis Park and Spirit's Kieran Van Loon and Rich Sutherland hit the net without reply to beat Grants Braes 2-0 at Ocean Grove.
