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Casa Hermosa wins in overtime; Mt. Brilliant/Equine Law Group win in the sixth
By
Alex Webbe
Tonkawa suffered its first loss of the season and La Casa
Hermosa remained unbeaten as they scored a 12-11 overtime win over last month’s
winner in the 14-goal Freebooters classic at the International Polo Club in
Wellington Saturday morning.
Brandon Phillips scored the first goal of the game to
give Tonkawa the early lead, but La Casa Hermosa stormed back to take a 3-2
lead to end the chukker. Tonkawa picked
up a penalty goal from Nic Roldan on a 60-yard penalty conversion while La Casa
Hermosa collected a pair of goals from Julio Gracida (one on a penalty shot)
and a goal from the field from Jeff Blake.
Roldan scored the only goal of the second chukker as both
teams checked their defenses and allowed few opportunities to score. The score was all even at 3-3 after the first
two chukkers.
Gracida added his third goal of the game on a 40-yard
penalty conversion for a 4-3 advantage but Tonkawa got it right back on a goal
from the field by Agustin Arellano. At
the end of the first half the two teams were deadlocked in a 4-4 struggle.
Jeff Blake put La Casa Hermosa ahead, 5-4, with the first
goal of the second half, but the lead was short-lived. Goals from Phillips and team captain Jeff
Hildebrand ended the chukker with Tonkawa on top of a 6-5 score.
Two more goals from Hildebrand (one on a penalty shot)
were all Tonkawa could muster in the fifth while Gracida added two goals (one
on a penalty conversion) to the La Casa Hermosa score and single goals from
Jeff Blake (penalty goal) and Brad Blake gave them the lead, 9-8, with one
chukker left to play.
Three consecutive goals from Tonkawa (one from Hildebrand
and two from Roldan) had La Casa Hermosa trailing by two goals, 11-9. Brad Blake rallied the troops and managed two
goals to tie it up and force sudden-death overtime.
La Casa Hermosa took advantage of Tonkawa’s lackadaisical
approach to the final throw-in and Brad Blake took off with the ball to score
the winning goal, 12-11.
Gracida led all scoring with five goals. Brad Blake scored four times and his brother,
Jeff Blake accounted for three scores.
Hildebrand and Roldan scored four goals each. Phillips was credited with two goals and
Arellano added a goal in the loss.
MT.
BRILLIANT/EQUINE LAW GROUP 11, VILLA DEL LAGO 9
Mt. Brilliant/Equine Law Group needed a sixth chukker
rally to unseat a talented Villa Del Lago foursome 11-9 Saturday afternoon in
Freebooters Classic competition at the International Polo Club.
Mt. Brilliant/Equine Law Group took the early lead on an
opening penalty goal from Avery Chapman and a goal from the field from Kris
Kampsen while holding villa Del Lago scoreless, 2-0.
Kampsen added a second goal in the second chukker but
Villa Del Lago exploded for three goals to tie it up at 3-3 at the end of the
period. Argentine 8-goaler Polito Pieres
scored twice and Agustin Obregon added a goal for Villa Del Lago.
Two more third chukker goals from Pieres in the third
were countered by a penalty conversion from Kampsen and a goal from the field
from English 6-goaler Julian Daniels. At
the end of the first half of play it was tied at 5-5.
Pieres gave the lead to Villa Del Lago in the fourth
period on his fifth score of the game. A
penalty conversion from Obregon gave Villa Del Lago a two goal, 7-5
advantage. A Villa Del Lago foul sent
Kampsen to the penalty line where he converted the shot for a goal. The chukker ended with Villa Del Lago
guarding a fragile 7-6 lead.
The two teams exchanged goals in the fifth with Chapman
converting a penalty shot for a goal and Bo Goodman scoring from the
field. Obregon added a penalty goal and
Pieres scored from the field to keep Villa Del Lago in the lead, 9-8.
The sixth chukker belonged to Mt. Brilliant/Equine Law
Group as their defense smothered the Villa Del Lago attack while picking up
three goals of their own. A pair of
goals from Kampsen (one on a 40-yard penalty shot) and a goal from the field
from
Daniels carried them to an 11-9 win.
Kampsen led the Mt. Brilliant/Equine Law Group offense
with six goals (three on penalty shots).
Daniels and Chapman scored two goals apiece and Goodman accounted for a
goal in the victory. Pieres scored six
times for Villa Del Lago. Obregon added
three goals, two on penalty shots in a losing effort.