ROTHERWICK ITW and Old Basing will open this season's Finch Group Guy Jewell Cup as they meet in a first round encounter at May's Bounty on Tuesday, May 5.

Five teams, holders Yateley, Basingstoke and North Hants, Hook and Newnham Basics A, Hartley Wintney and Eversley, have been seeded into the second round.

The rest of the first round games are as follows, with the dates of the matches, where known, in brackets.

All the first round games will be played at May’s Bounty, starting at 6pm.

Guy Jewell Cup round 1: Hook and Newnham Basics B v AWE Tadley (May 11), Whitchurch v Sherfield-on-Loddon (May 12), Ramsdell v East Woodhay (May 18), Andover v Chineham Barbarians (May 19), Oakley v Chawton (May 26), Basingstoke Hockey v St Mary’s, RNA Sports v Herriard, Overton v Ashford Hill, Stratfield Turgis v Rotherfield Park, Ropley v Odiham and Greywell.