By Alex Webbe
Yellow Cab (2-0) picked up its second consecutive win in the 2012 Sawgrass Challenge 12-goal Pro-Am at the International Polo Club Sunday morning with a 9-8 win over Goose Creek (1-1).
Juan Monteverde scored the first goal of the game from the field for Yellow Cab, but Cote Zegers converted a 40-yard penalty shot for Goose Greek and then added a second goal from the field. Goose Creek left the field after the opening chukker of play with a 2-1 edge.
Jeffrey Garber opened the second period with a Yellow Cab goal to tie it up at 2-2, but Tano Vial put Goose Creek back on top, 3-2, with his first goal of the game. Monteverde closed out the scoring in the period to knot it up at 3-3.
Vial added another goal to the Goose Creek total in the third while Yellow Cab’s Pablo Spinacci converted a pair of penalty shots for goals and Monteverde scored his third goal of the game. At the end of the first half, Yellow Cab was rolling with a 6-4 lead.
Spinacci scored the first goal of the second half as Yellow Cab extended its lead to three goals, 7-4. Vial scored a goal from the field and converted another 40-yard penalty shot to cut the Yellow Cab lead to a single goal, 7-6.
Spinacci scored on a penalty shot in the fifth, 8-6, but goals from Vial and Zegers had it all even again at 8-8. Spinacci scored the final goal of the chukker as Yellow Cab rolled off with a 9-8 advantage.
Both teams struggled to control the play in the final chukker with shots going wide of goal and clearing shots turning defense into offense. The final horn sounded with no goals being scored in the final chukker as Yellow Cab recorded a 9-8 win.
Spinacci led the Yellow Cab attack with five goals. Monteverde scored three times and Jeffrey Garber added a goal in the win.
Vial was credited with five goals for Goose Creek. Zegers added three goals in a losing effort.