Eastern Harbour men's unbeaten ran came to an end in unfortunate circumstances in Dunedin club tennis on Saturday.
Harbour's No 1 player, Aaron Hicks, suffered a serious ankle injury during the doubles match and was forced to default the singles after being named to play.
His injury caused a delay in the second singles fixture, as a team-mate took him to hospital and the match will be played at a later date.
McGlashan Red leads Harbour 4-1, after schoolboys Paddy Ou and Mitchell Sizemore made the most of their opportunities.
Ou beat the more experienced Ryan Eggers with unexpected comfort, 6-2, 6-4, and exposed the limitations of the more subtle game of Eggers against an accurate power game.
Sizemore, down one set and at 4-4, hit a series of winners and continued an aggressive domination of the variations of Mike Smith to race away 6-4, 6-1.
Smith had been able to mix up his young opponent for the first hour. Sizemore now heads north for a series of junior national circuit tournaments.
Eggers and Smith won their doubles, to give Harbour its only point.
Balmacewen remains winless but pushed last year's winner Cosy Dell to a countback. Alex Low beat James Bourne in a power-hitting contest 6-4, 6-2 at No 1, but Jon Bakos got one back for Balmacewen when he got a dead netcord winner at matchpoint against George Milne in the final set tiebreak.
Both doubles also went to three sets and were split but Milne's set sealed the countback win.
Mornington-Roslyn also needed a countback to edge McGlashan Blue and both doubles were split in three-setters.
Harry James was severe on George Wigley, dropping only two games at No 1. However, Henry Hailes and Ollie Scott took easy singles wins for Mornington and Tom McCabe took a deciding set, though losing to Tom Beamish.
St Clair, Mornington-Roslyn Les Belles and Eastern Harbour/St Clair combined all had easy 3-0 wins in women's ties, most scores being very one-sided against sometimes depleted opposition.
The only tight match saw Emily Henderson (Les Belles) fight back to beat Georgia Rooney (Eastern Harbour) 4-6, 7-6, 6-0.
