Sunday’s Results
Grand Champion Cartier Cup Final – GTP 13, Armageddon Polo 12 (OT). Martin 
Pepa scored the winning goal less than 1 minute in Overtime in what was one of the best matches of the spring Wellington season. GTP jumped out to an early 2 to 1 lead after one period and built on that lead 7 to 5 after three Chukkers.
The next three chukkers was a tighly played match, as Armageddon came alive and dominated the 4th chukker with goals by Timmy Biddle, Carlucho Arellano and Avery Silverstein to take a one goal lead into the fifth. A penalty three coversion by Marc Ganzi tied the game at 8 all, but Tommy Biddle would strike back with a penalty four conversion and then a field goal by Carlucho Arellano would give Aramageddon a two goal advantage. But GTP would close the 5th strong with goals by Martin Pepa and Niel Hersh. The final period saw two more lead changes, as GTP struck first, but Armageddon would strike again getting two more field goals to take a 12 – 11 lead. With a minute remaining off the next throw in Hersh would back the ball out to Ganzi, who carried the ball to the boards, where he left it for Juan Bollini who hit a pin point pass to Pepa for the tap-in goal on a great team secquence. With 20 seconds left Biddle would give Avery Silverstein one last shot in regulation, but his shot would come up short as time
expired and the teams were knotted at 12 after regulation. MVP honors went to Niel Hersh who had four goals on the day and 11 for the tournament. GTP would get four goals from Ganzi, three from Martin Pepa and two from Juan Bollini. Tommy Biddle and Avery Silverstein led
Armaggedon with 6 goals and 3 goals respectively.
Consolation Final – Golden Point Polo 13, Audi Polo 12. New patron,
Burce Agardy’s Golden Point Polo Team got their first victory yesterday
besting Audi by a goal in a very fast and high scroing match. Agardy
helped lead his team, with four goals, Max Stevens had four goals, Kris
Kampsen with 3 and JJ Celis with 2. Audi Polo was paced by a seaosn
high 8 goals from Melissa Ganzi. The game was tied up 10 all at the
start of the 6th Chukker. Golden Point ripped off three goals to take a
decisive lead, but Audi stromed back with 2 goals from Melissa Ganzi and
Brandon Phillips in the last two and one half minutes, but time was not
on their side and they came up a goal short. MVP was given to Golden
Point’s Max Stevens.
Next weekend’s action concludes the Grand Champions Spring League with
the Grand Champions Cup presented by Polo Gear.
Saturday’s Results
GTP Polo 12, Golden Point Polo 9. GTP led 8 to 3 at the half paced by
4 goals by Niel Hersh; including a decisive third chukker where GTP
outscored Golden Point 3-0. The lead grew to 11 to 3 by the middle of
the fifth period with goals by Marc Ganzi and Niel Hersh. Leading
scorer on the day, Niel Hersh with a tournament high 7 goals from the
filed; Niel took 8 shots at goal today and hit on 7 of them. GTP also
got 2 goals from Marc Ganzi, 2 goals by Martin Pepa, 1 goal by Juan
Bollini. Golden Point was led by Ocala based patron Max Stevens with 4
goals and Kris Kampsen with 4 goals; the game was the first tournament
game for Golden Point’s patron Bruce Agardy of Palm Beach, Florida.
Armageddon Polo 7, Audi Polo 6. Game was tied 3 – all at the halftime,
as the game was very defensive. But goals by Avery Silverstein and Gene
Goldstein (an amazing 180 yard run where every Audi player tried to hook
him) in the 4th put Armageddon up by 2. But Audi was resilient with
goals by Brandon Phillips and Melissa Ganzi tied the match at 5 goals
headed into the 6th. Tommy Biddle laid a perfect pass to Avery
Silverstein with 2 minutes left to give Armageddon a one goal lead, but
Audi bounced right back with a goal with 50 seconds left by Brandon
Phillips; off the throw in Tommy Biddle quickly took the ball and ran it
down the field untouched for the winning goal with 20 seconds left –
giving Armageddon the one goal win. The best finish of the season in a
match by far. Audi was led by Diego Arellano and Bandon Phillips with
two goals each. Armageddon was led by three goals each by Biddle and
Silverstein.
Finals of the Grand Champions Cartier Cup at Noon tomorrow at Black
Watch Polo; Consolation Final is at 10am at Southfield’s Polo Club.
Hope you can make it.