The weather played havoc with the sporting weekend as a host of events were called off after high winds and heavy rains battered the island from late on Saturday afternoon.

The Premier Division game between Boulevard and X-Roads at Bernard Park on Saturday night was a portend when referee Tashun Simons was forced to abandon the game at half time.

Simons deemed the goalmouth areas unplayable during the interval with X-Roads leading 1-0 after Samuel McKittrick had scored a piledriver, finding the roof of the net from 30 yards in the 41st minute, but both sides will now need to wait for the Bermuda Football Association to rearrange the fixture.

The BFA Competitions Committee will be busy this week, with two of the three Premier Division Games and both First Division matches cancelled on Sunday.

The only game to take place was the Premier Division match between Young Men’s Social Club and Devonshire Cougars at Police Field, with the top-flight games between St George’s and Devonshire Colts at Wellington Oval and Dandy Town against Paget at White Hill Field both casualties of the weather.

The First Division match between Somerset Trojans and Southampton Rangers at Somerset Cricket Club also fell foul of the weather as did the game between Vasco da Gama and Somerset Eagles.

There was a dearth of football on island at the weekend with the cancellation of the festival at North Field featuring the best young boy and girl players from primary and middle schools doing battle in the Bermuda School Sports Federation’s all-star games.

Trials for the netball team, who will be heading to the Central American and Caribbean Games in the Dominican Republic in July, took place indoors at Berkeley Institute on Saturday but league matches in all age groups at Bernard Park were cancelled.

The Driving Horse and Pony Club of Bermuda were hoping to beat the weather by pushing the weekend’s harness racing meeting back from its originally scheduled time of 6pm on Saturday to 2pm on Sunday.

But they were unable to beat that deadline with winds too strong for any action to take place at Vesey Street.

The big road running race of the week was also a casualty of the weather. Organisers of the Bermuda Union of Teachers 5K, which was slated to be run at 8.30am on Sunday morning at West Pembroke School, postponed the event with a new date yet to be decided.

The Bermuda Golf Association’s Four-ball Championship was unable to be held at Port Royal Golf Course but one sport that did beat the weather was rugby.

All three league matches ― two women’s fixtures and one men’s game ― went ahead on Saturday but a coaching course, featuring some top overseas officials, was unable to be held on Sunday.