Recruit McKee booted the season's first bag of 10 goals in the Panthers' 24.11 (155) to 10.15 (75) win over the Eagles at Marong Links Oval that has Marong sitting on top of the ladder after two rounds.

"We were able to keep it open in our forward line for him and we delivered the ball a lot better than we did last week, which was very pleasing," Marong coach Corey Gregg said.

"Josh took at least 15 marks and he barely got beaten one-on-one. He was a great target for us all day."

McKee wasn't the only damaging player inside forward 50 for the Panthers, with another of Marong's recruits in Daniel Turcarelli kicking six goals.

"He played across half-forward and was really smart around the goals," Gregg said.

"We dominated the stoppages and we were able to get the ball into our forward line quick, which is the main reason Josh and Daniel were able to get on the end of a few."

The Panthers were never threatened by the Eagles after leading by 29 points at quarter-time, while by half-time the margin had already ballooned out to 63 points, 14.4 to 3.7.

While McKee and Turcarelli were the Panthers' best, they also had good contributors in new ruckman Chris Morgan, Gregg (three goals), Zac Boyer (two goals) and Craig Morris.

It was a bitterly disappointing day for the Eagles after they had shown encouraging signs against Pyramid Hill the previous week.

"Marong outplayed us in all facets today. They were first in for the ball, wanted it more and made us look second-rate," YCW coach Pat Jess said.

Jess said the dominance of Marong's McKee and Turcarelli was largely due to a lack of midfield pressure from the Eagles.

"Our midfield was outplayed completely... we were smashed in centre clearances and stoppages around the ground," Jess said.

"They were able to clear the ball without any pressure, which meant their forward-line delivery was spot on.

"As strange as it may seem, I didn't think our backline did too bad a job the way the ball was coming in due to that lack of midfield pressure."

The Eagles' best players were three recruits in Steven O'Keefe (four goals), Leighton Driscoll and Mathew Waterson (two goals).

• Newbridge proved it could be a darkhorse this season following a 21-point away victory over Bears Lagoon-Serpentine.

The Maroons set up their 15.7 (97) to 12.4 (76) win with a strong third quarter when they added six goals to one.

Having led by nine points at half-time, the Maroons' third-quarter blitz extended their buffer to 39 points heading into the final term.

"I was disappointed during the second quarter when we went away from how we wanted to play, but we really put it on the boys at half-time and they responded well in the third quarter," Newbridge coach Matt Dillon said. 

Newbridge full-forward Rhys Ford again showed he's going to be a handful for opposition defenders with a haul of eight goals, following his five last week against Calivil United.

"He was one of the guys who really stood up in the third quarter and took the game by the scruff of the neck and set it up for us," said Dillon, who is sidelined indefinitely at the moment.

Along with Ford, the Maroons also had Jordan Gilboy, Aidan Moore and Chris Belz among their leading players.

While the Maroons are undefeated, last year's grand finalists, the Bears, are 0-2.

The Bears were undermanned on Saturday, missing nine of their starting 18, and weren't helped in the third quarter when Justin Wilson was reported for striking and sent off.

"We were a bit depleted today, but we were able to play some good passages of footy at times," Bears coach Damien Featherby said.

"We just turned the ball over too much and that's what let us down the most."

Josh Shaw, Jack Williams, Andrew Gladman and Tom Cartledge were the pick of the players for the Bears.

• Pyramid Hill proved too good for the new-look Mitiamo at Mitchell Park, winning by 17 points to notch its second win.

The game was in the balance at three quarter-time as the Superoos led by three points after charging back into the contest in the third term on the back of kicking six goals to two.

However, the Bulldogs answered the challenge, kicking five goals to two in the final term to win 17.8 (110) to 14.9 (93).

"We're far from playing our best footy at the moment and we let them get a bit of momentum in the third quarter, but we were able to finish off well," Pyramid Hill coach Paul Grayling said.

"Mitiamo is going to be a very handy side with some good players and they look like they are in for a good year."

For the second week in a row, Grayling kicked goals for the Bulldogs, who also had strong performers in Craig Crichton and Brad Fawcett across half-back and fellow defender Dylan Morison. 

The Mitiamo side was almost unrecognisable to the one that won just two games last year, with 16 new players in the Superoos' team.

"We turned the ball over a fair bit in the first half, but in that third quarter we used it a lot better and got a bit of run," Mitiamo coach Denis Grinton said.

"Unfortunately, we ran out of a bit of steam in the last quarter being our first game.

"It was disappointing to be beaten, but we were competitive on the toughest road trip in the competition."

Aaron McKean, Matthew Perri, Daniel Meroli and James Drake were the better players for the Superoos. 

Joel Pianto and full-forward Michael Spooner kicked three goals each.

• Calivil United continued its 12-year dominance of Inglewood, defeating the Blues by 17 points, 10.9 (69) to 7.10 (52) at home.

The win was the Demons' 24th in a row against Inglewood, but only the third during the streak where the margin was less than three goals.

"It was a fairly even contest right through, but after last week (75-point loss to Newbridge), I was just after a real effort across the board and we got that, which was pleasing," Calivil United coach Andrew Freemantle said.

Better players for the Demons included Evan Ritchie, Jay McDonald (four goals), Justin Hynes in the ruck and half-back Jonas Sommerville.

Inglewood, which has already shown this year it will be far more competitive than last season, had good players in wingman Matthew Thomas, ruckman Daniel Love and Nicholas Dower.

"Simple skill errors hurt us today and they were able to kick away, which was disappointing," Inglewood coach Isaac Douthie said.

"We gave ourselves a chance, but we need to get those basic errors out of our game."