Lucchese defeat Piaget 11-9 to lift 2011 Bombardier Pacific Coast Open title – Polo Update
Adolfo Cambiaso and Jeff Blake scored five times each and made the title-victory possible for Lucchese against Piaget 11-9 on September 4 at the 2011 Bombardier Pacific Coast Open at the Santa Barbara Polo Club in California.
The Piaget team which reached through to the grand finale after some great performances missed the title with a difference of only two goals and scored only nine against the eleven of their rivals.
The final game unfolded in the hands of Miguel Astrada who managed a goal from the penalty conversion. In the later time, Melissa Ganzi, the skipper of the Piaget side scored a goal from the field effort and took the score up to two. Astrada added another
goal that further ignited the strikers of the Lucchese team. Jeff Blake brought his team into the score-net by marking a goal from the penalty shot and completed the first chukka with Lucchese trailing by two goals, 3-1.
In the second set of play, Astrada further expanded the edge up to three by scoring off another penalty shot in the very early minutes. One of the legendary players in the world, Adolfo Cambiaso started his action and managed two goals while his team-mate
Blake also accomplished similar results and took the game into their favour. The Lucchese team was leading the game by a single goal at the end of the second chukka at 5-4.
The strikers from Lucchese and Piaget displayed impressive performances in the third round and made the results equal after seven and half minutes of action. Cambiaso increased the tally of Lucchese with another penalty conversion in the opening minutes.
However, the players from Piaget made an effort to make a return into the game and they succeeded to do so. Crowder added two goals while his team-mate Astrada accounted for a single goal that took the scores at 7-6. A player from Piaget committed a mistake
that gave Blake an opportunity to convert a penalty shot and tied the knots at seven-all at the half-time.
Cambiaso and Blake notched one goal each in reply of the single goal from Ganzi in the fourth set of play. However, Crowder once again made the score level in the early minutes of the fifth frame. After another mistake from a Piaget player, Cambiaso converted
a penalty shot in the last minutes. Julio Gracida of Lucchese added a goal in the last chukka and sealed the title victory at 11-9.
Due to an outstanding game, Cambiaso earned the MVP award while Chaleco, the mare of Miguel Astrada was named as Best Playing Pony of the tournament.
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