The rain may have ended up being just as threatening as North East Valley on Saturday.
Taieri’s bowling attack ensured that it beat both, though.
Regan Flaws and Ben Lockrose took eight wickets between them, as they dismantled Valley at Brooklands.
It gave the host side a six-wicket win in the only completed game of the Dunedin premier one-day competition.
Flaws bagged five wickets for 33 runs, while Lockrose had three for 12, as Taieri had Valley on the ropes at 18 for eight.
Some late resistance from Kyle Hastie and Harry McDonald, who scored 22 and 20 respectively, helped Taieri through to 62.
However, Beckham Wheeler-Greenall came on to take the final two wickets, bowling out the Swans in 21 overs.
Taieri knocked off the runs in 14.5 overs. Wheeler-Greenall top-scored with 25, while Jarrod and Kaleb McKay took two wickets apiece for North East Valley.
At Bishopscourt, Carisbrook-Dunedin/Kaikorai was 125 for five when its game against University Grange was abandoned due to rain.
The game between Albion and Green Island at Sunnyvale was also abandoned, but not before Albion had completed its innings.
Josh Tasman-Jones (39) and Josh Cuttance (35) combined for 71 for the opening wicket but when they departed, the bowlers took control, and Albion was dismissed for 141 in the 41st over.
Jed Mockford (three for 16) and Christi Viljoen (three for 24) led a balanced Green Island attack.
In Friday night’s twenty20 competition, Tasman-Jones hit 108, as Albion scored 190 to beat North East Valley by 47 runs.
Lockrose took three for 12 and Flaws two for 19 as Taieri bowled out University-Grange for 91, propelling it to a 57-run win.
Carisbrook-Dunedin/Kaikorai claimed a 26-run win over Green Island, Josh Finnie’s three for 25 the pick of the performances.
