National 20-goal Championship gets started on Sunday with two games
By Alex Webbe
As if there wasn’t enough high-goal polo taking place at the Grand Champions Polo Club on Sunday with FlexJet (Melissa Ganzi, Jason Crowder, Nic Roldan and Juan Bollini) facing Travieso (Tony Calle, J.J. Celis, Facundo Oregon and Jesse Bray) in the final of the 20-goal USPA North American Cup, two afternoon games are scheduled to be played in the 2015 USPA National Twenty-Goal Championship.
In a six-team field, Barbarossa Leather (Julio Ezcurra, Leo Mandelbaum, Martin Estrada and Tommy Biddle) is scheduled to face Casablanca (Grant Ganzi, Guille Aguero, Jeff Hall and Carlitos Gracida) in a 1pm contest.
A 3pm USPA National Twenty-Goal game will follow at 3pm featuring Postage Stamp Farm (Annabelle Gundlach, Brandon Phillips, Julio Arellano and Brad Blake) and Audi (Marc Ganzi, Carlucho Arellano, Sugar Erskine and Jeff Blake).
Flex Jet and Travieso, the USPA North American finalists, will be joining the competition on Wednesday with FlexJet meeting Barbarossa Leather in a 10am match followed by a 3pm battle between Travieso and Postage Stamp Farm.
Friday’s National Twenty-Goal action will pit Travieso against Audi in 10am play followed by a 3pm contest between FlexJet and Casablanca.
Tournament semifinals are slated to be played on Sunday, November 22nd with games at noon and 3pm. The final of the 2015 USPA National Twenty-Goal Championship will take place on Wednesday, November 25th at 3pm.
The Grand Champions Polo Club is located at 13444 Southfields Road, on the corner of South Shore Boulevard and Lake Worth Road, Wellington, 33414. The matches are free of charge and the public is invited to attend. The Grand Champions Polo Hotline is 561-373-0073.
(Photo by Alex Pacheco)