Oxford City Stars took over at the top of Division 1 South after making it three successive victories with a fine double win.

Having won their opening match of the season, Stars made it three with a 6-3 success at Peterborough, and followed it up 24 hours later with a 5-3 triumph away to Streatham Redskins.

Peterborough won last season's English Cup and made the league play-offs – but were no match for a rampant Stars outfit – who were good value for their victory.

The Islanders took an early lead through a lucky deflected strike, before both sides saw players ejected following a scuffle in front of the Stars' bench.

Grant Bailey was sent off for Stars – despite not leaving the bench – but with two Peterborough players dismissed, Stars had a man advantage.

This spurred the visitors on, and within 16 seconds of the restart they were level when Dean Francis fired home.

Three minutes later, Francis scored again after good work from Nick Eden and Nick Oliver.

Lee Featherstone then supplied Richard Wojciak to make it 3-1 as Stars took control.

They were undone, however, when a mix-up in their defence saw Peterborough pull one back.

But that man Francis took centre stage with two more goals in five minute to complete a superb four-timer.

His speculative long-range effort made it 4-2, before a fine finish gave Stars some breathing space.

Captain Darren Elliott made it 6-2, and although Peterborough pulled one back late on, Stars were deserved winners.

The following night, Stars continued their good form at Streatham Redskins.

The hosts were missing seven players due to a mass brawl the previous evening in their game against Cardiff, but this should not detract from Stars' performance, who fought back from 2-0 down.

In front of a noisy home crowd, Oxford took control almost immediately, but they could not turn their possession into goals.

The deadlock was broken after eight minutes as an Oxford move broke down, and the home side cleared the puck to allow Robert Formisano to skate through and fire a low shot into the bottom corner.

The lead was doubled when Joe Johnston jinked past three Oxford players, before his long-range shot took an awkward bounce and eluded netminder James Skaife.

The second period saw Oxford fight back well.

With eight minutes gone, they pulled one back with the best move of the match.

One-touch passing between Elliott and Andrew Shurmer found Alan Armour, who found the top corner.

And the scores were level two minutes later when Dean Francis raced onto a Sam Broughton pass to make it 2-2.

In the third period, Stars took the lead with a brilliant goal from Jacob Smith, assisted by Oliver and Wojciak.

Two minutes later it was 4-2 when Francis found himself wide open to slap the puck through the Streatham netminders' legs.

The home side weren't finished, and they took full advantage of a powerplay when Johnston skated round the back to finish sublimely.

With Streatham camped in the Oxford end, a quick counter-attack restored the vistors' two-goal cushion when Oliver skated through one-on-one with the netminder to finish into the bottom right-hand corner.