Team Tens and Second XV round-robin tournaments with perfect 3-0 records during a rugby marathon at National Sports Club yesterday.

Renegades basically sewed up both titles early, defeating Teachers 7-0 in the first Tens match and with another shut-out, 3-0 over Teachers, during the first match of the XVs tournament.

Even though other matches against Mariners and Police squads appeared deceptively close on the scoreboard, Renegades were operating on all cylinders, while their opponents never seemed to make it out of first gear.

In Tens action, Renegades vaulted past Mariners 12-8 and beat Police 7-5. In XVs, they beat Mariners 13-0 and Police 14-0 to round out their perfect day.

In other Tens matches, Teachers finished a highly respectable 2-1, their victories coming against Police, 14-0, and then Mariners, 7-0, in the last game of the six-hour rugby feast.

Teachers had an identical 2-1 record in XVs, beating Police 14-0 and Mariners 17-0 for their two victories.

While Renegades and Teachers were in the spotlight with their sterling records, it was confusion over a key rule, squabbling about the refereeing of Kim White, Peter Borland and Norm Wilson and the exciting play of a young Canadian playing his first games for Police which reigned the day.

More than one club found themselves undermanned as the result of a prickly rule, which few players seemed to grasp and teams then chose to ignore.

Players could suit up in both tournaments -- a player like Police's Sean Field, for instance, was permitted to play for First Team Tens and then Second XVs but could only play for Tens for the remainder of the day. Police were stung particularly hard during the second game of XVs action when they were forced to use 11 players compared to Teachers' 15 and summarily lost the game 14-0. The only surprise was that the score was just 14-0.

Randy Brooks, a Canadian serviceman recruited for Police, was easily one of the day's stand-outs scoring a try in a Tens game against Renegades. He made an impressive run followed by an unbelievable twirl around several would-be tacklers, and was a consistent force throughout the day, even though Police were outclassed in all three of their Tens matches. They lost 7-5 to Mariners, 14-0 to Teachers and 7-5 to Renegades.

Referees were the objects of a simmering feud from players after several close calls and things came to a boil when Renegades' Wade Tehima was sent off by Wilson for dissension during Tens action against Mariners. Tehima was booted out after he pointed a hand at Wilson, imitating firing a gun with his fingers. Later, Tehima pleaded innocent saying he was not pointing at the official but at a Mariners player.

Police produced the afternoon's most one-sided affair, a 19-0 victory over Mariners in XV action. But they could not carry that into their other XV games, losing to Teachers and Renegades by identical 14-0 scores.

Mariners managed their only Tens victory, a close 7-5 encounter against Police. It was also their only victory of the day, losing all of their XV matches.

High winds wreaked havoc on most games, perhaps accounting for low or one-sided scores. That made the performance of Teachers XV kicker Patrick McHugh all the more dazzling. Two of McHugh's two-point conversions against Mariners were perfect, despite the fact he was kicking directly into the wind for one of his scores.