ShareAfter leading through much of the game, Cinque Terre needed an overtime period to stave off a resilient Pony Express foursome in the finals of the 2010 USPA Eastern Challenge Cup Finals Sunday morning at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Wellington. Pony Express received two goals by handicap, but first chukker goals from Cinque [...]
Crab Orchard Sweeps High-Goal Polo Season!
April 18, 2010 By
ShareWith Crab Orchard’s 13-8 win over Audi in the finals of the 2010 United States Open Championship Sunday afternoon at the International Polo Club in Wellington, it became the first team to will all three trophies in the same season. It was in 2007 that Crab Orchard won both the U. S. Open and the [...]
KING GEORGE THE THIRD 2010 OPEN CHAMPS
April 18, 2010 By
Crab Orchard and Audi in Open Finals
April 15, 2010 By
ShareCrab Orchard rode onto the field in the day’s first semifinal of the 2010 US Open Championship as the favorite, but it was Valiente who took a 4-3 halftime lead in polo action at the International Polo Club in Wellington Thursday afternoon. Crab Orchard, led by “the great one”, Argentine 10-goaler Adolfo Cambiaso was looking [...]
Lechuza Caracas scores win; moves into semifinals
April 12, 2010 By
ShareLechuza Caracas scored an 8-7 win over Las Monjitas to earn a berth in Thursday’s semifinals of the 2010 United States Open Championship Monday afternoon. Wet grounds and a threatening sky were ominous signs, but the teams got through six chukkers of polo before the first afternoon raindrop fell. Wet fields at the International Polo [...]
Valiente take perfect record into semifinals
April 11, 2010 By
ShareUnder a cloudy sky and in a match that was threatened by intermittent showers, Valiente kept its undefeated record intact by scoring an uninspired 8-5 win over Bendabout/Wanderers in the 2010 Arcalux US Open tournament at the International Polo Club Sunday afternoon. With several hundred spectators in attendance for the “early” game of the day, [...]
Crab Orchard rolls into the US Open semifinals with a 13-9 win
April 10, 2010 By
SharePlaying with 10-goaler Adolfo Cambiaso (a player most consider “the best in the world”) has its advantages, Wellington local Julio Arellano found out on Saturday afternoon as their Crab Orchard team rolled over Orchard Hill, 13-10, to earn a spot in Wednesday’s semifinals of the 2010 US Open Championship at the International Polo Club in [...]
Valiente still undefeated; Lechuza evens record
April 8, 2010 By
ShareIt was probably no different twenty years ago when the Astrada brothers were playing soccer in the park, brother pushing brother, the competitive streaks leading to shouting and appealing for fouls or accusing one another of fouling, but this was today. It was the United States Open Championship at the International Polo Club in Wellington, [...]
Audi breezes to 4-0 mark, Crab Orchard evens record
April 7, 2010 By
ShareThe Audi (4-0) polo team scored a convincing 16-12 win over previously unbeaten Orchard Hill (2-1) to finish the initial rounds of competition in the 2010 Arcalux United States Open Championship Wednesday morning at the International Polo Club in Wellington with a perfect 4-0 record. Orchard Hill fell to 2-1 with the loss and is [...]
Valiente wins first Open match, Audi remains unbeaten
April 4, 2010 By
ShareBob Jornayvaz’s Valiente team capped off a busy day of polo competition in the 2010 Arcalux US Open Championship at the International Polo Club in Wellington by scoring an opening round 8-6 win over the veteran Lechuza Caracas (0-1) team. Led by five goals from 9-goaler Nacho Astrada, Valiente (1-0) fought back from an early [...]
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