USPA North American Cup playing schedule set
By Alex Webbe
The draw for the 2015 USPA North American Cup was held Sunday evening at the Grille Restaurant in Wellington with Audi (Marc Ganzi, Jeff Blake, Sugar Erskine and Carlucho Arellano) and Travieso (Tony Calle, Jesse Bray, Facundo Obregon and J.J. Celis) enjoying the luck of the draw as they both received first round Byes and a pass into The 20-goal tournament’s semifinal round of play on Friday.
Opening round play will begin at 10am Wednesday morning, November 11th between Postage Stamp Farm (Annabelle Gundlach, Brandon Phillips, Julio Arellano and Pelon Escapite) and Barbarossa Leather (Leo Mandelbaum, Julio Ezcurra, Tommy Biddle and Martin Estrada) in the single elimination competition. The second game of the day will feature FlexJet (Melissa Ganzi, Jason Crowder, Nic Roldan and Juan Bollini) and last year’s defending championship Casablanca (Grant Ganzi, Carlitos Gracida, Jeff Hall and Guille Aguero).
The winner of the Postage Stamp Farm vs. Barbarossa Leather game will face-off against Travieso in Friday’s 10am semifinal. A 3pm semifinal between Audi and the winner of the Casablanca vs. FlexJet tilt will decide the other USPA North American Cup finalist.
The tournament final is scheduled to be played at 3pm on Sunday.
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)