But there couldn't be a more apt way of describing Saturday's women's Premier League Hockey derby between St Pat's and Souths on Bob Roach Field.

The Saints raced out to a 5-0 half-time lead on the back of a lightning-paced offensive game but that's the way the score would remain at the final whistle after the two blues managed to lift in midfield defence.

Sarah Watterson scored twice in the opening quarter for Pat's before Ella Davis, Mish Somers and Millie Fulton also found the back of the net in a red-hot nine minute window during the second quarter.

Winning coach Jaden Ekert said his side found it tough to make headway in the second half but had produced an inspired first half effort.

"Souths changed their structure in the second half. They had eight players in their own half and when you get the breakaway it's hard to get through something like that but it is what it is," he said.

"We didn't train that well on Thursday night but for the local derby you could tell in the change rooms that the girls were ready.

"Our ball speed was fantastic and they just couldn't keep up. We still kept the ball well in that second half and didn't give any cheap turnovers."

Souths coach Chris Stafford tried to mix things up in the first half but when that didn't pay off he opted to cut back on the defensive press, and it worked wonders for the team.

It just came too late.

"We just to do some new things and unfortunately that didn't work out but in the second half we started to put things together. We've still got the whole second half of the year to go now," he said.

"You have to be proud of their bounce back. We tried to play more of a fall away in the second half but most of it came from attitude and effort."

It took just two minutes for Souths goalkeeper Kate Brown to be called upon when she kept out a Saints short corner.

Pat's continued to dominate possession and create chances, especially down the right side of the field, and it earned them their second corner in the 10^th minute.

Watterson was on the money from the top of the circle.

Less than two minutes later Watterson was on the score sheet again when a defensive error from Souths created a two-on-one opportunity.

Ruby Clarke got the ball across to her teammate who doubled the advantage.

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Early in the second quarter St Pat's made it two out of three from short corners when a deflection from Davis escaped Brown's grasp.

Somers - who earlier in the day had helped Group 10's representative league tag to victory in Forbes - scrambled back to Bathurst in time to join the game during the second quarter.

It took her less than 60 seconds of being on the field to score, when she tapped her a cross between the legs of Brown.

A smooth passage of play between Emma White and Lucy Weal then helped set up the fifth goal of the game for Fulton.

The two blues began to dispossess the Saints more often in the third quarter but were unable to convert the extra possession into goals.

Souths' Sophie McCauley almost had a contender for solo goal of the season in the early seconds of the final quarter when she blew past three Pat's defenders to give herself a tough look at goal from the top of the circle.

Her high shot thudded into the right post, bounced into Pat's goalkeeper Lilli-Rai Campbell before being desperately cleared away.