The Wanganui Athletic Reserves were unable to pull one out of the bag as they fell to a 4-1 defeat against Linton away from home in the Western Premiership.
Meanwhile the local competitions in the Charity Cup turned out some surprise results, and the Women's Senior Cup put on some good football to round out Saturday at Wembley Park.
It was another valiant effort by the Reserves on the weekend, but again the game plan against a more mature and physical side was not quite effective enough to get the results required for them to claim a much needed win.
Young Jack Mccoubrie bagged his first goal for the season in a good reward for a player who is starting to show plenty of promise for the future. However, his effort was not enough to inspire his teammates to pick themselves up and fight back.
The Reserves are away again this weekend, playing at Skoglund Park against the Palmerston North Boys High School 1st team, another young side but one that's currently sitting third on the table and will stretch the Reserves to their complete limits.
Back on home turf at Wembley, the Women's Senior Cup was back up for grabs.
The Senior Cup is a club-only competition played during the school holidays when the school teams are likely to have their squad numbers affected.
There were two matches played, the first which saw the underdog Wanganui Athletic Women claim a valuable 4-1 win over the Rivercity Scrappers, bringing them level in points on the table.
Meanwhile the Clive Barritt Builders Marist Ladies came a distant second in their fixture against table leaders Wanganui City Women, with City claiming a 7-0 victory.
The Charity Cup pool play on Saturday had plenty of well fought matches, with a few surprise results keeping the competition interesting.
In Pool A, Division 1 champions City Wanderers cruised past Division 2 champions Rivercity Braves, with the Braves disappointed to have not gotten more from the match, while the Marist club derby between the Casuals and Shamrocks saw the new boys claim a 5-2 victory over Casuals.
In the other Pool A game, the City Thirsties pushed St Anthony's Castlecliff to the brink, but ultimately fell just short of causing a real upset, with the score settled at 2-1 in favour of the Division 1 team.
Pool B saw the Marist Bhoys claim a hard fought 3-2 victory over an unlucky Athletic Weekenders, who fought back from a two goal deficit in a real battle between two promising teams, while the Rivercity Chiefs were unable to battle back against Castlecliff
United, who had a 3-1 winning margin at the final whistle.
Tthe biggest upset was the City Hammers dug deep and managed to spoil the day against the Marist Celtic.
In what was a hard, physical game, the Hammers did what was required to force Celtic to squander the opportunities they had.
With the scores deadlocked with about twenty minutes to go, James Barnes let loose a bullet that ripped through the Celtic defenders to give them a one goal lead, and force the Celtic to push on and chase the game.
As the Celtic defence stretched to the limit, Dan Aplin's continued threat and commitment to the ball was rewarded as he won a challenge between the Celtic keeper and defender, connecting with a foot as he slid in underneath the two to pushing the ball into the net and cement the win.
Victory puts the Hammers at the top of the league, but gives the expected layout of the table in Pool B an unusual look, with Pool A looking a bit more settled.
With plenty more weeks of football to come in both pools, it will be interesting to see what other upsets are in store, as the local clubs vie for the coveted Charity Cup.