Rizvi’s, Barry’s taste victories in Spring Polo Cup
Rizvi’s/Master Paints and Barry’s trashed their opponents in the ongoing Spring Polo Cup 2018 matches played here at the Lahore Polo Club (LPC).
First match of the day was played between Rizvi’s/Master Paints and Newage/Guard Group in which Rizvi’s easily routed Newage by 7-4½. Star of the match Juan Cruz Losada showed outstanding performance as he fired a quartet while Hamza Mawaz Khan also played brilliantly by thwarting three tremendous goals in his team’s triumph. From the losing side, which had half goal handicap advantage, Salvador Ulloa hammered a hat-trick but it could not utilize the lead in their favor and managed to score one more goal through Raja Arslan Najeeb.
In the first chukker, Salvador Ulloa scored the opening goal to provide Newage/Guard Group 1-0 lead but in second chukker Hamza Mawaz then converted a 30-yard penalty to level the score.
In the third chukker, Rizvi’s Hamza struck two goals while Losada hammered one whereas, Newage scored two goals one each by Salvador and Raja Arslan. The chukker ended with Rizvi’s leading by 4-3.
In the fourth and last chukker Losada hammered an impressive hat trick to give Rizvi’s 7-3 lead while in the dying moments of the chukker, Salvador hit one to reduce the margin to 7-4 and half goal handicap did not play for Newage as Rizvi’s won the match 7-4½. Ignasio Negri and Miguel Luis Duggan supervised the match as field umpires while Masoc Araya acted as match referee.
The second one sided encounter of the day was played between Barry’s and Master Paints Black where Barry’s outclassed Master Paints Black by 7½-1. Tito Ruiz Gunazu slammed in a hat-trick for Barry’s which had one and half goal handicap advantage, while Ahmed Bilal Riaz struck two and Raja Mikael Sami hit one. From the losing side, Saqib Khan Khakwani scored the only goal.
The match started with Saqib converting an impressive goal off 30-yard penalty in the beginning of the first chukker to give Master Paints Black 1-0 lead. Barry’s then bounced back in style and struck a leveler through Tito Ruiz. After that, it were all Barry’s show who dominated the remaining three chukkers as they banged in three goals in the second chukker to make it 4-1, with Ahmed Bilal scoring a brace and Tito Ruiz hitting one. Tito Ruiz added one more in the third chukker to enhance the team’s lead to 5-1 and Raja Mikael contributed one to give Barry’s 6-1 edge. With one and half goal handicap advantage, the final score was 7½-1 in favor of Barry’s. Macos Araya and Bilal Haye were field umpires and Ignasio Negri was referee.
Army Whites will take on Diamond Paints Black in the only match of the day to be played today at 2:00 pm.
