Bottom drops out from under CT Energia in loss to White Birch
By Alex Webbe
CT
Energia (Alessandro Bazzoni, Nick Manifold, Joao Paulo Ganon and Kris Kampsen)
took advantage of a one goal handicap from the 20-goal White Birch team (Matias
Sosa, Hilario Ulloa, Mariano Aguerre and Peter Brant) to move in front 6-5 at
the end of the second chukker when the bottom dropped out from under them
Monday morning. Seven unanswered goals
by White Birch Farm left CT Energia trailing 12-6 at halftime, paving the way
for the White Birch win as competition continued in the 2014 Tommy Glynn
Memorial Cup at the Greenwich Polo Club.
CT
Energia received one goal by handicap, but it was White Birch team captain Peter
Brant who scored first from the field for an early 1-1 tie. Hilario Ulloa’s first goal of the day gave
White Birch a 2-1 edge, but the lead was short-lived. Alessandro Bazzoni tied it up at 2-2 and
teammate Kris Kampsen converted a penalty shot to put CT Energia on top,
3-2. Ulloa evened the score at 3-3 on a
penalty shot that ended the period.
Mariano
Aguerre opened the scoring in the second for a 4-3 White Birch lead, but CT
Energia charged back into the game.
Consecutive goals from Bazzoni and Brazilian 7-goaler Joao Ganon had CT
Energia in front, 5-4. Ulloa converted a
30-yard penalty shot to deadlock it once again, 5-5. Kampsen scored the final goal of the chukker
from the field to put CT Energia in the lead, 6-5.
Following
a competitive first two chukkers, the wheels came off the wagon for CT Energia
in the third.
“We’d
have been better off not even going onto the field in the third,†said Kampsen
shaking his head.
For
as well as CT Energia played in the opening two chukkers, the third was a
disaster for them. Seven consecutive
goals from White Birch buried the 19-goal team and had them trailing by six
goals, 12-6, at the end of the first half of play. Ulloa scored four times, Aguerre registered
two goals and Brant added the final goal of the chukker.
A
different CT Energia defense showed up for the fourth chukker, limiting White
Birch to a single goal from Ulloa. CT
Energia, however, was unable to get on the scoreboard for the second consecutive
chukker and trailed by seven goals, 13-6.
Brant
stretched the White Birch lead to eight goals, 14-6, with a penalty conversion
to open the period. Kampsen converted a
60-yard penalty shot and Ganon added a goal from the field. With one chukker left to play, White Birch
sat on top of a very comfortable 14-8 lead.
CT
Energia tried desperately to get back into the game, but the deficit was too
much. Kampsen converted a pair of
penalty shots to end the game as White Birch remained unbeaten with a 14-10 win.
Ulloa led all scoring with eight goals.
Aguerre and Brant scored three goals apiece for the victory. Kampsen’s five goals set the pace for CT
Energia. Ganon and Bazzoni scored two
goals each in a losing effort.