Kyle Lightbourne hailed last night's inspiring performance against Harrisburg City Islanders as the most satisfying victory of his Bermuda Hogges coaching tenure.

Hogges captured the prize scalp of Islanders in convincing fashion courtesy of second-half goals from Domico Coddington and Antwan Russell ¿ with the deadly duo showing signs of forging a lethal strike partnership.

And Lightbourne believes beating Islanders, one of the league's so-called powerhouses, will serve as a psychological boost for his side who visibly grew in confidence as the game wore on.

"It's the first time we've beaten Harrisburg City Islanders and hopefully we can now continue to grow as a unit," said Lightbourne.

"It's probably the most satisfying win so far for me and psychologically it was important to win our first home game of the season.

"It's was very important for us to beat one of the top teams in the division. We need to make our home ground a tough place for teams to get points. We have four home games in row now and we must push on."

The searing pace of Coddington tortured Islander's back-line throughout a dominant second stanza for the Hogges with the Devonshire Cougars' player breaking the deadlock with a powerful finish for his second goal of the season.

Lightbourne singled out Coddington special praise after the game and revealed his intention to use him as a frontrunner all season.

"We spoke about getting the ball into Domico's feet at half-time," Lightbourne said.

"Both Domico and Antwon Russell have plenty of pace and that's why I played them up front together.

"They both scored tonight, worked their socks off and led the line well. I think I'll look to play Coddy as a striker this season because he offers us pace in behind and has scored twice already."

Lightbourne persevered with his defence ploy of playing three at the back with skipper Omar Shakir, Kevin Richards and Darius Cox rendering Islanders' attack to looking pretty toothless.

"You could see we looked more organised tonight, we stuck to our game plan and denied the space in behind," Lightbourne added.

"We knew they looked to play the ball in behind us and therefore fooled them into thinking we were going to play a high line, but always had Omar (Shakir) dropping at the right time.

"We knew we had to be good from set-pieces defensively and not give anything away. We restricted them and they never really got behind us at all."