El Remanso 10-goaler Pelon Stirling scored seven goals in the win.
(Photo by Tony Ramirez)
The all pro Fox & Hounds polo team (Max Routledge, George Meyrick, Jack Richardson and Tom Morley) are 1-1 in overtime games in 2014 Cartier Queens Cup play after beating Twelve Oaks (Juan Gris Zavaleta, Magoo Laprida, Iñaki Laprida and Stefano Marsaglia) in Sunday noon contest, 10-9 (they had lost an earlier game in overtime to El Remanso).
The Fox & Hounds started out playing disciplined polo, moving out to a 4-2 lead at the end of the second chukker, with the game turning in the third.
Juan Gris Zavaleta got on track in the third, as did teammate Inaki Laprida; putting Twelve Oaks into the lead for the first time at the end of the first half.
The Fox & Hounds continued to have trouble finding the goal posts in the fourth chukker, and trailed 6-4.
Twelve Oaks continued to press the attack in the fifth with three more goals. George Meyrick got one back but, Fox & Hounds were down by four goals, 9-5, with one chukker left in regulation play.
A determined Fox & Hounds returned to the field for the sixth chukker. Tom Morley scored first followed by goals from Jack Richardson. A tying goal from Fox & Hounds went unanswered, sending the game into sudden-death overtime.
After a brief recess both teams returned to the field for the overtime period that ended quickly with Meyrick scoring and delivering the team’s first Queens Cup, 10-9.
The all-pro team delivered a strong message about the strength and depth of the emerging British players and their potential impact on the game.
The victory leveled the Fox & Hounds record at 1-1 while Twelve Oaks remains winless at 0-2.
El Remanso 11, EFG Bank Aravali 8
EFG Bank Aravali (Jaime Garcia Huidobro, Alejandro Muzzio, Joaquin Pittaluga and Charlie Pidgley) patron Karan Thapar was relegated to the sidelines, recovering from a badly broken hand suffered in a fall earlier in the month. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Pidgley replaced him, making his high-goal debut against the veteran El Remanso team.
Although the young Pidgley acquitted himself well, EFG Bank Aravali struggled to slow down the aggressive El Remanso attack behind the talented mallet of 10-goaler Pelon Stirling. With the support of teammates Charlie Hanbury and Guillermo Terrera, the final result was never in doubt. Stirling and Terrera proved successful last year, leading El Remanso to the final last season, and appear prepared to do the same again in 2014.
El Remanso was up by five goals at the end of the first half, 7-2, in what was shaping up as a very one-sided affair, but EFG Bank Aravali rallied in the second half.
Goals from Jaime Huidobro and Alejandro Muzzio breathed some life into the straggling foursome as they attempted to catch up with the high-riding El Remanso quarter, but it was not to be. Stirling’s seven goals led the El Remanso attack to a comfortable 11-8 win for a 2-0 record. The loss was the first for EFG Bank Aravali, 0-1.
Cartier Queens Cup play continues on Monday with King Power (“Top” Srivaddhanaprabha, Pablo Llorente, Gonzalito Pieres and Marcos di Paola) meeting HB Polo (Ludovic Pailloncy, Ignacio Toccalino, Pite Merlos and Sebastien Pailloncy) at 12 noon at Billingbear Park. Zacara (Facundo Pieres, Lyndon Lea, Gonzalo Deltour and Matt Perry) will attempt to remain undefeated facing Enigma(Jerome Wirth, Chris Mackenzie, Sapo Caset and Guillermo Willington) at 3pm at Guards Polo Club.
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