MOST teams wait a week, maybe two, between victories.
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For women's Premier League Hockey battlers Confederates, Saturday's thrilling 4-2 triumph against Lithgow Zig Zag ended a 12 month wait for what has proved to be quite an elusive taste of victory.
Before that, the absence of a win was even longer.
Try two years, when Feds broke through for their first win back in the women's PLH competition on June 2, 2012 a 2-0 win over Parkes.
So you can imagine the euphoria at the Orange Hockey Complex when the red and blues - thanks largely to a three-goal haul from striker Georgia Parr - secured their first victory for the 2015 season, just their third in four years.
"Ecstatic, relieved … I think more relieved for the girls than anything," Feds coach Mark Pengilly said, Feds now off the bottom of the ladder as well.
"They've kept persevering with it and set themselves goals, and now they're starting to achieve them."
Eyeing off the Zig Zag clash as the ideal way to lift themselves from the wooden spoon position, Feds couldn't have started better.
Earning a short corner in just the fifth minute, Parr successfully tapped in the opening goal of the afternoon as the hosts asserted their dominance over Ziggies, with later shots again to Parr and then Annabelle Tierney unlucky not to extend the home side's advantage to three goals.
Still, it didn't deter them.
And, come the 24th minute, Parr nailed her second after Zig Zag goalkeeper Bree Rigby deflected an Annie Pakinga strike, enabling Parr to tap in the addition and shoot Feds out to a 2-0 lead, one they held at halftime.
Handed a rocket at the break, Zig Zag duly lifted and blitzed the opening 15 minutes of the second period.
They were rewarded with quick fire goals, too, the first to Katie Wilkins - Feds stopper Steph Hinds appeared to lose the ball in the air before it hit the back of the goal - and the second to Danni Lemcki, who earlier hit the left post with a similarly stellar stroke.
Shocked, no doubt, by the sudden swing in momentum, Feds somehow responded almost immediately after Lemcki's winner, and it was again through Parr.
The strongest finisher in Feds' arsenal, the heavy-hitting Parr whaled her third goal past Rigby from just inside the circle, handing the lead back to Feds 3-2 in a completely frenetic four minute period that netted three goals.
At that point, 22 minutes still remained and thereafter both sides earned and failed to convert short corner opportunities, Lithgow had their best player, Keeley Hunter, green carded after a moment of frustration and Feds, well they hung on to clinch an absolute heart-stopper at home, Belinda Lewis putting the icing on the cake with a goal three minutes from full-time.
Pengilly said that second half was tough to watch, especially after Zig Zag rallied so well.
"I was very nervous," he laughed.
"But we're a determined group, and when (Zig Zag) got that goal and we got one right back, it relieved the pressure.
"We kept fighting. We talk about letting the ball do the work, and they did that today. It paid off.
"Georgia Parr getting three goals, she gave us plenty of opportunity. Our strikers are working really hard in that circle now. It's made a big difference."
Leading a decimated group, Zig Zag stand-in coach Jim Wilkins said he simply ran out of troops at the end.
"Really, so many injuries made it tough for us," Wilkins said, Zig Zag slipping to ninth on the ladder.
"We thought we were on from there (after scoring two goals), and then we suffered a couple more injuries and that was the end of us."
CONFEDERATES 4 (Georgia Parr 3, Belinda Lewis) def LITHGOW ZIG ZAG 2 (Danni Lemcki, Katie Wilkins)