Campbell Makea and Gary Pointon played key roles in driving Gold to a 13-3 win over Maroon in the Ellis Park derby on Saturday.
The victory saw Ellis Park Gold replace Ellis Park Maroon at the top of the table after three rounds.
It is shaping as one of the most even pre-Christmas rounds in years, with three teams on 3-2 records and one on 2-2 with a game in hand.
Only Dodgers are falling behind, although even they picked up their first win of the season on Saturday.
Ellis Park had the numbers to field two sides this summer, so the first derby was always going to be interesting.
And it was, until the result was made certain within two innings.
Gold took a 3-1 lead after the first inning, with two walks and a sacrifice bunt combining with two Maroon errors.
Then it was all Gold in the bottom of the second in a wild seven-run, five-hit inning.
The first three batters singled, before a walk, a Pointon triple and a Makea single meant five runs had suddenly been scored.
Maroon pitcher Luke Egan was replaced by rookie Krizevac Tuitea, and he recovered from a nervous start to get out of the inning without much more damage.
Makea homered in the third, and pitcher Pointon gave up just three hits through the final three innings as the game was called on the mercy rule.
Dodgers finally broke their duck with a 6-2 win over Cardinals.
The win was built around a superb display of pitching from Dodgers star Ben Watts, who gave up two runs in the second inning but conceded a single hit in seven innings and finished with 13 strikeouts.
Grant Phillips and Steve Willis also pitched well for Cardinals in the middle stages, but Dodgers capitalised on errors in a three-run seventh inning.
Cardinals immediately bounced back with a 4-1 win over a previously buoyant Ellis Park Gold side.
Phillips and Willis again proved their value as a combination, conceding just two hits through seven innings, while Doug Hill hit a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth.
In the final game of the day, Saints thumped Dodgers 21-0.
It was only 3-1 through two innings, before Saints scored seven times in the third and added 11 in the fourth, making the most of Watts' absence from the mound.
A Travis McIntosh homer was the highlight in a final inning featuring five walks.
