The standing is assisted by the fact the team was awarded the points from its round one match with Echuca, due to a player registration infraction by the Murray Bombers.
Kyabram leads the competition with five wins, while Mooroopna, Euroa and Seymour are all on 16 premiership points — equal with Rochester.
At the weekend the Tigers were 169-point winners against Benalla, the Saints’ only scoring shot of the match a goal in the opening quarter.
Seamus Henderson was best on ground, with Broden Evans (three goals) and Angus Martin also great. Harrison Foster and Kyle Waters both kicked four goals, while Fraser Cleary and Declan Pearse kicked three apiece.
A 94-point round three win against Tatura was followed up by a 98-point win at Deakin Reserve against Shepparton United.
Sean Wiliams and Cleary kicked 10 of the 18 goals for Rochester between them in the Tatura win, with Pearse adding three and Samuel Frawley bagging two.
Evans was the team’s best player, with Cleary in support, along with Seamus Henderson, Williams and Xavier Hooppell.
The Tigers kicked 10 goals in the third quarter before being kept scoreless in the last, when the only scoring shot between both teams was a goal to Tatura.
Williams followed that up with eight goals against United, Hooppell accounting for another four of the 22 goals kicked by the Tigers.
Evans was again the outstanding player on the ground, supported by the goalkickers, Kyle Waters and Henderson.
In the next two weeks the Tigers play the ninth and 11th placed teams on the ladder before confronting Echuca again.
• Rochester’s start to the Under 18 Goulburn Valley football season was far from perfect, but the team has managed to taste some success.
On Saturday the Tigers were 50-point winners and now sit eighth on the ladder with two wins and three defeats.
Darby Wileman, Elijah Foley and Max Ward were the best three contributors, while Nate Rasmussen bagged another four-goal haul, Wileman kicked three and Harrison Foster two.
The Tigers kicked 23 goals in their round three clash with Tatura, leading by 82 points at half-time before ending up with a 150-10 win — kicking 23.12 to 1.4.
Rasmussen kicked five goals in the win. Jordy Burton and Will Leahy both bagged four, while Wileman, Foster and Foley were other multiple goalkickers.
Charlie Palmer was Rochester’s best player, along with Wileman, Rasmussen, Declan Pearse and Foster.
In the remaining three matches, against the top three teams of the competition, the young Tigers suffered 155-, 129- and 83-point defeats.
Against Shepparton United — in round four — the Tigers kicked eight goals, four of them in the last quarter when they were outscored by just one point.
In the opening two matches of the season Rochester was best served by Reed Hocking, Cleary, Wileman, Foley and Brodie Marriott.
Foster kicked four of those eight goals and with Marria Curry, Waugh George, Wileman and Cleary was among the Tigers’ best players.
• Rochester’s Under 16 team opened its season with a 73-point loss to Echuca in the opening round, when the team kicked three goals to its opponent’s 13.
Toby Woodfine, Harrison Foster and Zayne Adams all kicked goals, with Foster the team’s best player.
Ray Pearson, Hugh Kerlin, Jordy Rasmussen and Lawson Kath were also good players.
Rochester suffered an 83-point loss to Kyabram in the second round, when the team kicked five goals. Adams and Harrison were again among the five single goalkickers, along with Bowden Stone, Rasmussen and Matt Harrington.
Best were Rasmussen, Jude Ryan, Harrison Foster, Stone and Lachlan Joyce.
A 193-point win in round three against Tatura came after the team kicked 35 goals to its opponent’s four. That included 14.1 in the opening quarter and 9.1 in the last quarter.
The team was on target on 35 occasions from its 44 scoring shots and kept Tatura scoreless in two quarters.
Hamish Stewart kicked six, while Rasmussen kicked five and two players, James Hipwell and Woodfine, kicked four goals. Trey White, Joyce and Zayne Adams all kicked three goals as 13 players hit the scoreboard.
Byes in round four and five will be followed by the clash with Shepparton Swans on May 14 at Moon Oval.
Echuca and Shepparton remain unbeaten with three wins, ahead of Shepparton Swans and Kyabram.
Rochester is fifth, among three teams in the nine-team competition to have won one game this season.
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