La Karina/ Mansour made teamwork count in a 13-12 victoy in the Lisle Nixon 12 goal finals at Santa Barbara. The team in green avenged an earlier defeat to Antelope in bracket play with their win.
The game was close throughout, with the score tied at the end of the 2nd and 3rd chukkers. Julio Gracida of Antelope was definitely the star of the show in the first half, scoring four goals on his eye catching grey ponies. The score remained tied in the 4th, but L aKarina/ Mansour blew the game open in the 5th chukker outscoring their opponent 4-1. That chukker the green shirts were everywhere following each other up on plays, and spreading around the goal scoring wealth between Ben Soleimani, Santiago Wulff and Santiago von Wernich. But Antelope refused to quit, and attacked the La Karina/ Mansour goal relentlessly in the 6th chukker. Antelope’s Gracida put two more goals on the board, but La Karina/ Mansour clung to their lead for the victory.
Julio Gracida’s horse Sky was BPP, and Santiago von Wernich of La Karina/ Mansour was awarded MVP, as he scored a team high 5 goals in the match.
In the consolation match earlier in the day Long Beach defeated Gehache 10-4, Matt Walker of Long Beach was high scorer with 5 goals.