The new rugby season started much the way it ended last year with Renegades women and Teachers men getting their title defences off to a winning start.

Greg Fraser scored 12 points and Peter Dunlop also bagged a try to help Teachers to a 20-10 win over their Renegades counterparts, as they claimed the first league points of the season, and also the Presidents Cup.

Fraser and Eoghan O'Dwyer traded penalties in a testy opening spell, before Fraser cut through the Renegades to defence to go under the posts for the game's first try, which he then converted to put the champions 10-3 up.

Renegades responded with a well worked try from Greg Garside, and an O'Dwyer conversion saw the two sides level at 10-10 at the break. The second half was one way traffic as a Shauntino Simons penalty, Dunlop's try and Fraser's second conversion took the game away from Renegades. In the weekend's other men's game, Police stormed into a 14-0 half time lead over Mariners with Gareth Davies and Lambert Schreuder touching down and Mike Kane kicking the conversions.

Although Scott Brown scored for Mariners soon after the re-start, the men in blue went further ahead, when Neville Zuill sped clear to go under the posts , and with Kane's conversion, the Police had a comfortable 21-5 lead. Mariners did give the game some respectability with a late score from Gary Brady.

In the women's game Renegades women dominated their Teachers counterparts, running in 11 unanswered tries.

Jess Gilbert led the way with an impressive haul of four tries, Melissa Field and Laura Haynes both grabbed a brace, while Melanie Frigon Duchaine, Ruth Boo Leston and Vanessa George all scored one each.

In the first game of the day Mariners ladies opened up with a tight 3-1 win against a rejuvenated Police side.

Julia Mansfield opened the scoring for Police after a well-worked move only for Fiona Beckerlegge to cancel it out. Abbey MacPherson edged Mariners in front to lead 2-1.

It took a brilliant dummy from Brown to create a gap that she expertly exploited, to give Mariners the win.