Friday morning’s shootout between La Bamba de Areco (Jean Francois Decaux, Polito Pieres, Gonzalito Pieres and Ollie Cudmore), Black Bears (Guy Schwarzenbach, Nachi du Plessis, John Paul Clarkin and Patrick O’Dwyer) and Enigma (Jerome Wirth, Charlie Hanbury, Guillermo Willington and Sapo Caset) for the last quarterfinal spot in the 2013 Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup for the British Open saw La Bamba de Areco advance, scoring on six penalty shots to five for Black Bears and four for Enigma.
Lyndon Lea hopes to reclaim the Gold Cup that his Zacara team won in 2011
With the final results in, the quarterfinal schedule has UAE (3-1) playing Talandracas (3-1) at noon on Saturday followed by a contest between El Remanso (3-1) and Sumaya (3-1).
Sundays Gold Cup action will feature a noon match between Zacara (4-0), the only undefeated team in the field, and La Bamba de Areco (2-2), while Dubai (3-1) will meet Twelve Oaks (3-1) in the 3PM game.
The Gold Cup semifinals have been slated to be played on Thursday, July 18, with the winner of the UAE vs. Talandracas game facing the winner of the Dubai vs. Twelve Oaks game in the noon semifinal. At 4 pm, the winner of the El Remanso vs. Sumaya game will play the winner of the Zacara vs. La Bamba de Areco contest in the second semifinal.