Azzurri lead the standings on 10 points after five rounds of the rain-affected season, followed by Magic, Olympic and Edgeworth all on nine.

The Eagles have risen from having no points just over a week ago.

They beat Lake Macquarie 2-1 eight days ago, accounted for West Wallsend 1-0 in a make-up game on Wednesday, then downed Azzurri 1-0 on Saturday night.

Magic still have a match in hand against West Wallsend on Thursday night.

Olympic's victory over Broadmeadow yesterday was particularly sweet for the Darling Street faithful because their fierce rivals were previously undefeated in eight matches, including pre-season games.

Olympic were not pretty against a free-flowing Magic, who spent most of the first half peppering the Hamilton goal to no avail. But in front of a packed home grandstand, Olympic's defence frustrated the Magic strikers, who could not find the target.

Olympic's Chris Berlin got in behind the Magic defence against the run of play in the 55th minute and slotted home a low right-foot shot.

Magic kept coming at Hamilton until a free-kick into the 18-yard box midway through the second half found Berlin's head to take Olympic 2-0 up.

"I said to the boys at half-time that they've thrown everything at us and haven't capitalised on it, and usually you find things turn around and that's what happened," Hamilton coach Bobby Naumov said.

Olympic goalkeeper Andrew Goldman was outstanding. The only blemish on his afternoon was an injury-time penalty from Peter Haynes, which he nearly saved.

Magic coach Peter McGuinness said his side were their own worst enemies.

"I'm very happy with the effort and creativity of our side, but we just didn't take our chances end of story," McGuinness said.

"Anyone that was here today and thought that we played poorly and they played well doesn't understand the game."

In other games, West Wallsend broke through for their first state league win since promotion, beating Weston 3-1.

Valentine Phoenix beat injury-plagued Toronto 4-0 and South Cardiff stole a 3-3 draw with Lake Macquarie