The Wagga Under 18 girls team lived up to their billing as favourites, and set the tone for the Vipers community, with three big wins, all by a margin of 10 tries. 

The Vipers' under 16 boys  also started with a bang on home soil, racking up three straight wins on the opening day. 

Coach Chris Dowell was rapt after their second win of the day, 9-1 against the Lower Blue Mountains, led by captain Pat Voss, and Ethan Weidemann in the middle.

"It's a good bunch of young kids that have been training together for the last few months," Dowell said.

"As I said to the boys, it's all about urgency and intensity in both attack and defence and being switched on.

"The good thing is they've got a great positive attitude about each other and that makes for a successful side." 

Wagga's Under 12 boys (three wins from three games, for an aggregate score of 31-1) and Under 10 boys (four from four) progressed to day two with a perfect record. And the Under 14 boys and girls had two games each on day one and came through both on top, although the girls have some injury concerns. 

The event also included Under 8s for the first time. Wagga's boys had a taste of everything on day one in a tight competition, with a draw, a one-point loss and a one-point win. 

Wagga Touch Association president, Darrin Walsh, was pleased with the opening day, from a Vipers' point of view and as hosts.

"We've had some good results, are travelling along pretty well and we think most of our teams will get to the round of 16," Walsh said.

"The standard seems quite high and some of the smaller town teams are really punching above their weight which is good from an overall perspective."

He said the western Sydney teams of Penrith, Parramatta and Wests Magpies are the serious threats.

Walsh said the travelling teams have been impressed with the set-up at Wagga.

"What's got us through is the number of people coming up and saying how much they're enjoying it and how well it's going," he said.

Dean Russell, NSW Touch general manager, said for a new event with thousands of participants and spectators, there were only a couple of minor hiccups early on day one.

He was both relieved and pleased with seeing the first southern conference tournament underway in Wagga. 

"It's gone really well," Russell said.

"Whenever you go into a new venue and run it for the first time, you can have all the plans that you think will work and invariably there will be something small you go, okay, we need to change that. There was a couple of small ones of those this morning but we were able to jump on it straight away.

"All the feedback I'm getting from people is that they love the venue. They're saying how good the venue is, how good the playing surface is, how everything's nice and close. So it's pretty positive."

The tournament continues on Saturday with finals throughout Sunday. 

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