Coach Warren Lees said the squad played two twenty20 games at Brooklands Park on Saturday and had hoped to return for more cricket the following day.
The weather meant the squad was forced to train indoors but Lees was happy with the hit-out.
The two twenty20 matches were split, with the Caitlin Blakely XI winning the first and the Katey Martin XI claiming the second.
Promising batsman Polly Inglis impressed with innings of 41 and 20, and Blakely was also in good touch, whacking 34 in the first game.
Seamer Megan Gibbs performed strongly with the ball. She took two for seven in the second game, and Georgia Clarke also had a good weekend.
Most of the squad was present, with White Ferns left-arm spinner Morna Nielsen making the trip down from Hamilton. However, Suzie Bates and Leigh Kasperek are both playing cricket in Australia and were not available.
''It was very worthwhile,'' Lees said.
''The girls actually played as well as they possibly could. Polly Inglis stood out with the bat and Caitlin Blakely stood out as well.
''Morna Nielsen arrived and she fitted in very well. Katey Martin was here [from Christchurch], Vic Abbott, Emma Campbell and the regulars were here.''
The Dunedin-based members of the Sparks squad will play club cricket this weekend.
They have a third-grade game scheduled against the King's High School Third XI at Ocean Grove.
The final pre-season hit-out is at, ''of all places'', Waitiri Creek vineyard in the Gibbston Valley.
The vineyard has an artificial pitch and export and marketing manager Paula Ramage is ''a cricket fanatic'', Lees said.
So the Otago Sparks will play the Otago under-21 team in a twenty20 fixture there on November 16 in what will double as a trial match of sorts, but also a season launch.
The season gets under way with a twenty20 match against Auckland at Melville Park on November 28.
