The heavy mist hanging in the air forced an early halt to matches or even cancellations.

The DJStrachan Shield competition still has the final four places up for grabs. Woori Yallock has home side Gruyere District on 3-89, with Aaron Violi undefeated on 32.

B Hayes took 1-12 before stumps.

At Yarra Junction the home side is batting first and on 2-60.

Daniel Lever has half the tally, being not out on 30.

Both wickets to fall have been taken by Coldstream's A Kuruppuarachahi at the cost of 28 runs.

In the profile match of the round at Queens Park against Warburton, Healesville - with a team-of-the-century weekend of celebration in full swing - is 2-47 off 18 overs.

Seville, playing for fourth place, got almost a full day of play at Hoddles Creek and is 8-306 at stumps.

John Pignataro made his second century for the season with Andrew Kay chipping in with 77.

In the RAFinger Trophy grade, Warburton hosted Wandin but the game was washed out.

Coldstream was 4-63 at home to Seville (P McArdle 31, Andrew Dipietro 2-21, Roger Oates 1-4 and Matt Walker 1-19) when play was halted for the day.

In the C grade 1 competition, Kinglake was to play Gruyere District but the match was called off due to rain and fog.

In the match between Mt Evelyn and Hoddles Creek, Mt Evelyn was 3-57 (Ian Hawkey 31 not out, Ferguson 1-5).

Next Saturday, day two, the fixtures that were abandoned will be played as one-day games.

The DJSS and RAFT Trophy grades will start semi-final matches at 12.30pm on Monday.