Port Macquarie is still reeling from Saturday's visit by the Forster Tuncurry Dolphinettes and their rugby union win over the Hastings Valley Vikings, three tries to two and 15-10.
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Seven-a-side rugby is a swift and gruelling game.
Speed kills, and it certainly contributed to the Vikings' downfall at Stuart Park.
Trial games are gambles, experimental affairs, with players tried in various positions, sometimes proving wrong, sometimes successful, tactics devised and discarded.
The coach trip home to headquarters at Tuncurry's Peter Barclay Field with its echoes of "Red, red wine" and a hundred other hit songs from the girls certainly suggested there were more successes than two missed tackles, leading into the kick-off of the Kennards Hire premiership at Gloucester on April 13.
Birthday girl Daniela Crowther was the Dolphinettes' player of the game with her strength and security in midfield and two other starlets emerging in 17-year-old Emily Kiely and Genevieve Sears, both gifted with pace and tackling skills.
Propping at the scrum is demanding and often thankless work, but Daniela and powerful loose-head, Bianca Rugari, played the role splendidly beside new hooker Genevieve, whose mobility enabled her to complete a superb, last-ditch try-saving tackle.
All-important was the calming influence and play-making skills of captain, Dani Lumbara Lewis, at five-eighth, the club's player-of-the-year last winter in the Mid North Coast Zone's initial season of women's rugby.
Dani is proving an exceptional leader.
Thirty years of front row play have done nothing to impair coach Lyle Gilmore's judgement in selecting the lively, enterprising Savannah Clements at halfback.
Her partnership with Lewis worked a treat.
In her first game for the club, winger Alison Hobbins, was on the receiving end of a resounding crash tackle, which briefly side-lined her.
Bravely she returned to the fray.
With the Vikings rebuilding after two seasons as a "male only club", it was an opportune time for the Dolphinettes to strike.
But as the century-old football expression goes, "a win's a win, and let hell take the hindmost."
Strong clubs are built on camaraderie and the Dolphins had two men on the trip who contributed nobly, club president Damian Daczko and the Dolphins' new centre, Aaron Fox, who acted as trainer and "water boy" with Emily-Jane Brady as team manager and strapper.
But greater depth is essential.
More women players are encouraged to come to the club on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm.
FORSTER TUNCURRY 15 (D. Lewis, E. Kiely, S. Clements tries) beat HASTINGS VALLEY 10 (T. Newby 2 tries).
