Army whites, Diamond Paints Blues wins in Spring Polo Cup
Army Whites and Diamond Paints Blues emerged as victorious in the ongoing Spring Polo Cup matches at Lahore Polo Club.
Spring Polo cup 2018 Lahore Polo ClubFirst match of the day was played between Army Whites and Army Reds in which Army Whites easily routed Reds by 6-3½. Star of the match Ignasio Negri struck a hat-trick while Brig Zulfiqar Ali Baig, Major Omer Minhas and Major Haseeb Minhas added 1 goal each. Although, Army Reds started the match with two and half goal handicap advantage, but could not utilize the lead in their favor and managed to score only goal through Mighuel Luis Duggan.
Brig Zulfiqar score the opener from Army Whites to reduce the lead 2½-1 but soon Mighuel Luis Duggan hammered a field goal and extended the Reds lead to 3½-1. In the second chukker, Ignasio struck another goal from Whites while in the third chukker, Maj Haseeb banged in a goal to reduce Reds lead to 3½-3. Whites who were in a half goal deficit came out of their shells in fourth and last chukker and struck 3 more goals to win the match over Reds by 6-3½.
Macos Araya steers Master Paints Blues to win the thrilling second encounter of the day against Diamond paints Black by 6-5. Araya banged a hat-trick from Blues while Ahmed Zubair Butt scored a brace and Bilal Haye contributed 1 goal. Eulogio Celestino from Master Paints Black hammered a quartet while Abdul Rehman Monnoo added the remaining goal but that was not enough to defeat Blues.
Eulogio Celestino scored the first goal from DP Black and took the lead while Abdul Rehman Monnoo doubled the lead in the last moments of first chukker. DP Blues dominated the second chukker as they leveled the game as Ahmed Zubair and Bilal Haye contributed 1 goal each to make it 2-2.
Both the teams evenly played in the third chukker and 2 each goals came from both the teams. Eulogio Celestino struck 2 goals from Black while Macos and Ahmed Zubair added 1 goal each from Blues. In the fourth and last chukker, Eulogio struck another goal and took led 5-4 but Macos Arya came furiously as he fired back to back two goals and guided Blues to 6-5 victory over Black.
Rizvi’s/Master Paints to play against Newage/Guard Group at 2:00 pm while Barry’s will vie against Master Paints Black in the second match today at Lahore Polo club ground.