Hume City’s Australia Cup dream remains alive, while the Whittlesea Ranges have been knocked out of the competition.
The two sides were among the first of the 20 remaining in Victoria, to play their round six matches.
Hume, which has won through to the national stage multiple times before, beat the Eastern Lions on Wednesday night, 3-0.
Josh Bingham opened the scoring through a penalty in the fourth minute, before Mark Ochieng doubled the lead in the 23rd minute.
Dylan McGlade put the icing on the cake in the 50th minute, to all but seal the result.
Speaking before the game to Hume TV, captain Harry Monaghan said it was a good opportunity for the group to just go out and play.
“Every game is a new opportunity to put things right, to get back on track,” he said.
“It’s been an interesting couple of weeks recently, the boys have been through a bit, we’re focused,
“We know the job, we’re focusing on the game tonight and getting the result.”
Like new coach Colin Cooper, Monaghan said the group know they aren’t too far away from turning some average results into good results.
In the National Premier League competition, Hume is without a win in their last four matches and sit ninth on the table.
“We’re not far away from it, Coops touched on it when he came in,” he said.
“We’ve got to be consistent on what we’re doing, something will click for us, [and we’ll] go on that run.”
It’s been a busy few weeks for Hume, with two successive weeks with two matches, Australia Cup and NPL.
Hume faces Altona Magic this Saturday in the NPL competition.
Monaghan said the playing group preferred to play inside the train, so they were quite happy with the back-to-back matches.
Meanwhile, the Ranges, who had already upset some National Premier League sides, in the Australia Cup were knocked out.
The Ranges travelled to Shepparton to face the Goulburn Valley Suns on Tuesday night.
Scores were locked at 0-0 at half time, with the Suns going a man down just before the break after a red card.
The Suns scored early in the second half to take the lead.
The Ranges levelled the scores in the 68h minute through Anton Nardella.
Two quick goals gave the Suns the lead again and they were able to hold on to win, 3-1.
