ROUND 3 of the Men’s Premier League on Saturday saw the South Fremantle Bloods remain the only undefeated team having beaten all three Fremantle Conference rivals while UWA teams Rangers and Flotsam scored impressive victories.

Round 3 of the 2017-18 Premier League season signalled the end of the first stage of action with all teams in their respective conference having played one another once. That will now lead to the first Cross Conference battles between Fremantle and UWA teams this Saturday.

As for last Saturday’s results in the Fremantle Conference, the South Fremantle Bloods remained undefeated beating Dolphins 8-4 and the Melville Sharks beat Port Colts 8-5. Both games were played at Bicton Pool.

And in the UWA Conference, Rangers defeated City Beach 11-2 and Flotsam handed Triton their first defeat of the season with a 11-4 victory at HBF Stadium.

The results leave the South Fremantle Bloods (3-0) on top of the Fremantle Conference ahead of the Melville Sharks (2-1), Dolphins (1-2) and Port Colts (0-3).

Triton (2-1), Flotsam (2-1) and Rangers (2-1) all have two wins from three games in the UWA Conference while City Beach remains winless in three attempts.

Rio Olympian Joel Swift from the Melville Sharks in the competition’s leading scorer after three rounds with 11 goals.

Florian Naroska from Triton is next with 10 goals followed by Will McKay (Bloods) with eight, Alex Bogunovich (Flotsam) seven, James Fannon (Sharks) six, Brett McGhie (Triton) six and Lach Pethick (Rangers) six.

Round 3 action began on Saturday at Bicton Pool with Dolphins looking to try and take down the Bloods.

Dolphins started well too scoring first courtesy of Peter Gaunt, but South Fremantle responded with the next three goals of the opening period through Michael Brown and then two to Will McKay.

Dolphins did respond, however, to start the second quarter with a goal to Xandy Buckland. Once more, though, South Fremantle answered with the next two from Brown and Alex Gunnell to go into half-time leading 5-2.

That became 6-2 to start the second half with a Bloods goal from Nick O’Halloran. Dolphins did manage two of the last three goals of the term but then South Fremantle scored the only time in the last quarter from Petar Tomasevic to secure the 8-4 win and to remain undefeated.

Michael Brown and Will McKay scored twice apiece for South Fremantle.

Petar Tomasevic from the Bloods was awarded the three votes, Mark Draksimovic two from Dolphins and Will McKay one from South Fremantle.

Then also at Bicton Pool, Port Colts was hunting their first win of the season against the Sharks. It was a tight opening with a goal apiece in the first quarter and scores remained locked with a minute to go in the first half until a Sharks goal from Joel Swift saw them lead 4-3.

Colts again drew level midway through the third quarter with a goal to Luca Altieri but Melville got one back from Nick Redbond to lead 5-4 heading into the fourth period.

Port Colts managed to level scores at 5-5 with a goal from Alex Petrov with 5:30 to go. But it was all Melville in the last five minutes with goals to Swift and two to James Fannon to see them secure the 8-5 victory.

Joel Swift scored three goals for the Sharks, James Fannon two and Nick Redbond two. Davis Verboon and Luca Altieri scored twice each for Port Colts.

Meanwhile at HBF Stadium, Rangers got proceedings underway against City Beach, and it was Rangers who took no time getting rolling with the only three goals of the first quarter from Christian Kyriakou, Will Lantzke and Lach Pethick.

Rangers also scored the only two goals of the second period through Lachie Vos and Amir Baraei to lead 5-0 at half-time.

That became 7-0 by three quarter-time following scores from Lantzke and Vos, and then 9-0 during the fourth after goals from Baraei and Pethick.

City Beach did get on the board with 4:45 left with a goal from Sam Rowbottam and then finished the game when he scored a penalty as Rangers went on to win 11-2.

Lach Pethick, Will Lantzke and Lachie Vos all scored two goals each for Rangers. Sam Rowbottam scored both City Beach’s goals.

Tim Putt was given the three votes from Rangers, Pethick two and then Rowbottam one.

Then also at HBF Stadium, Triton and Flotsam locked horns in a contest between two teams who had shown impressive signs over the opening two rounds.

Flotsam blew Triton out of the water early, though, with the only four goals of the first quarter and that proved the difference in the contest.

Triton did manage two of the three goals in the second quarter but Flotsam again took control after half-time, with three goals to two in the third quarter and three to nil in the fourth to end up winning impressively 11-4.

Nick Hughes scored four goals for Flotsam, Andrew Ford three and Alex Bogunovich three. Gaby Tebar scored twice for Triton who suffered their first defeat of the season.

Round 4 of the Men’s Premier League will see the Cross-Conference battles. At HBF Stadium, Rangers will play South Fremantle Bloods from 2.45pm and Triton will take on Dolphins at 4.15pm.

Port Colts will face City Beach at Bicton Pool at 3.45pm and Melville Sharks will play Flotsam at 5pm.

PREMIER LEAGUE 2017-18 MEN’S COMPETITION RESULTS

ROUND 3 – Saturday October 28
Fremantle Conference
Dolphins 4 lost to South Fremantle Bloods 8
Melville Sharks 8 defeated Port Colts 5

UWA Conference
Rangers 11 defeated City Beach 2
Triton 4 lost to Flotsam 11