Matamata travelled away to Porritt Stadium to play against Wanderers and this game had a bit more incentive in it as it was the top of the table clash and also had Matamata chasing goals with their total for the season standing at 98 in 11 games.

So the definite aim for the game was to reach 100. The start of the game saw Matamata not playing a very good style of football. No-one settled and within the first 2 minutes Wanderers capitalised from this and scored a run away goal.

Thinking this would wake up the Matamata side it almost had the reverse effect. Even though Sarah Hockley scored an equaliser there was still that doubt that this could be Matamata's first defeat.

Then it happened - Jaimee Morgan chipped the ball over to centre midfielder, Serena Jenkins, who in turn just nailed the ball from outside the 18 yard box to score Matamata's 100th goal for the season and it was an appropriate goal for it was an absolute pearlier!

In the last 5 mins of the half the tide shifted and finally Matamata began to play some classy football. At half time the score was 2-1 to Matamata.

Now, Matamata has a habit of starting the second half in a bit of a lazy fashion and has been caught half asleep quite often but they were awake this time. The Wanderers side may have only made it past the half way line a dozen times, Matamata played the best half of their season in this game.

The passing was direct, players were backing each other up and the cover defense was brilliant! The six goals of the second half were all skilled attempts that never looked like missing. Sarah Hockley scored a real dive bomber goal from just over half way, Serena Jenkins utilized a free kick from yet again outside the 18 yard box and Sarah Monteith used a bit of individual brilliance to beat the Wanderers defense.

So all in all Matamata walked away from the game very happy with the end performance and surpassed the goal of reaching the century. The goal scorers were Sarah Hockley - 3, Nat Gaskell - 2, Serena Jenkins - 2, and Sarah Monteith -1 and Matamata's total for the season so far is 106 goals in 12 matches!

The Matamata Car Painters player of the day went to centre back Annah Mason who seemed to have found a 6th gear for today's game and made some excellent cover defense tackles. Matamata's next game on Sunday is played at home at The Domain against Taumuranui. Kick off is at 11am.