Wins by Lechuza and
Audi set the finals for the Bobby Barry Memorial Cup
By Alex Webbe
With the completion of the semifinals of the Joe Barry
Memorial Cup finally put to rest, Jeff Hildebrand’s Tonkawa team (Jeff
Hildebrand, Gonzalo Deltour, Inaki Laprida and Jeff Blake) took the field
against Lechuza (Luis de Borbon, Marcos Alberdi, Juan Martin Nero and Tomas
Goti) for the first semifinal of the subsidiary Bobby Barry Memorial Cup.
With Luis de Borbon and Tomas Goti replacing Lechuza team
captain Victor Vargas and Martin Espain, Argentine 10-goaler Juan Martin Nero
scored the first two goals of the game on penalty shots for a 2-0 lead. Gonzalo Deltour responded with a 40-yard
penalty conversion of his own with Lechuza taking the early lead, 2-1.
Second period goals from Tomas Goti and Nero extended the
Lechuza lead to three goals, 4-1, as an oppressive Lechuza defense held Tonkawa
scoreless.
The Lechuza offense continued to roll in the third chukker
on a pair of goals from Nero and a goal from Marcos Alberdi that had Tonkawa
trailing by six goals, 7-1. Deltour
scored the final goal of the period, but at the end of the first half it was
all Lechuza, 7-2.
Tonkawa staged a mini-rally in the opening minutes of the
second half, picking up a pair of goals from Deltour that cut the Lechuza lead
to three goals, 7-4. Luis de Borbon
scored his first goal of the game that kept Lechuza comfortably in the lead,
8-4. Deltour scored the final goal of
the period with 23 seconds on the clock.
Tonkawa cut into the Lechuza lead but continued to trail, 8-5.
Deltour brought Tonkawa to within two goals of the lead,
8-6, with a 60-yard penalty conversion in the fifth. De Borbon answered back with his second goal
on the day. After five chukkers of play,
Lechuza continued to lead, 9-6.
A defensive sixth chukker resulted in a single penalty goal
from Inaki Laprida as Lechuza rode off the field with the 9-7 win and a berth
in Sunday’s final.
Deltour scored a game-high six goals for Tonkawa (two on
penalty conversions). Laprida added a
goal in the loss. Nero set the offensive
pace for Lechuza with five goals (two on penalty shots). De Borbon added two goals and Lechuza got
single goals from Alberdi and Goti.
Audi 9, FlexJet 7
In a family battle for the second final berth of the Bobby
Barry Memorial Cup, Marc Ganzi’s Audi lineup (Marc Ganzi, Nic Roldan, Freddie
Mannix and Lucas Lalor) faced his wife’s FlexJet entry (Melissa Ganzi Guille
Aguero, Miguel Novillo Astrada and Juan Bollini) to close out the day.
Audi took immediate control of the match on goals from Nic
Roldan and Lucas Lalor. FlexJet was
unable to mount an effective attack and fell behind, 2-0.
Shutout defense continued to drive the game as Audi got a
pair of second chukker goals from Fred Mannix and a single goal from Roldan
boosted the Audi lead to a commanding 5-0.
Miguel Astrada finally got FlexJet on the scoreboard with a
penalty conversion in the third, 5-1.
Marc Ganzi answered back with the final goal of the chukker for a 6-1
halftime lead.
FlexJet added three more goals in the fourth with Melissa
Ganzi, Guille Aguero and Astrada all tallying single goals. Audi responded with goals from Roldan and
Mannix to lead, 8-4.
The offenses slowed down in the fifth. Single goals from Roldan and Astrada were the
only goal scored as Audi continued to lead, 9-5.
Melissa Ganzi scored her second goal of the game in the
sixth and Juan Bollini added a goal, but it was a case of too little, too late,
as Audi rode off with the win and a spot in the final on Sunday against
Lechuza.