England falls to USA in Townsend International Polo Cup – Arena Polo (Part 2)
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The third frame of the four-chukka action also belonged to US Polo Team which received three scores while limiting England only for a single point. Rice notched a couple of goals at the start of the period, while Gobin increased the tally through his sixth
point of the day. It was the inflexible defence of USA that allowed only a single score to the English team. Hyde was the person who managed the solitary goal for England and trailed by five points, 11-6 with one chukka left to play.
The final set of play opened with a couple of goals in the hands of Biddle which were countered by same two goals from Dawnay Hyde. In the later time, Rice and Dawnay exchanged another goal and cut the US Polo Team lead down to five goals. Biddle notched
another goal in the final moments of the regulation time period and sealed the victory of US Polo Team in the historic game.
Owing to impressive show in the game, Tommy Biddle has been granted the MVP award of the tournament. The ponies, which were used in the game, were also given awards. Kat, the horse of Shane Rice was selected as Best Playing Pony of the tournament from US
Polo Team while Soco of Ryan Pemble was also honoured by the MVP award from English side.
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Joe Henderson, the third name in the history of polo, who obtained highest 10-goal handicaps after the match, said that the English players contested the game quite slowly as they used to play the game under different rules in their respective country.
He further stated that it was a great contest between two high-goal handicap teams which enthralled the audience a lot. Overall, it was a rock-hard performance from the US Polo Team, he maintained.
Henderson maintained that Biddle displayed a wonderful game, made the victory possible for US Polo Team, and he definitely deserved the MVP award of the event.
Shane Rice, the player of US Polo Team, was of the view that he himself wanted to make an impressive show against the neighbouring team.
Billy Sheldon, the alternate player and coach of the US Polo Team, explained his prior to the match thoughts stating that he was considering such a bombastic performance from John Gobin. They decided not to disturb him at all in the game, as he was consistently
scoring goals, he added.
MVP of the tournament, Tommy Biddle, speaking to the media persons after the match was of the view that they had not known about the expectations from the historic event. He further stated that they held a practise session with the visitors two days back
but they only attempted to familiar with the ponies. However, the English team was learning the rules of US Arena Polo.
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