PowerShell match first occurence of string only

Question

I'm trying to match the first occurence of a string using PowerShell:

$virtualMachine1 = "002DC001"
$virtualMachine2 = "003SP002"

$virtualMachine1 -match "002"
True

Good

$virtualMachine2 -match "002"
True

Bad.

Is there a way to match only the first 002 in the string? I think regex is required but I am stuck.