Eddie Moore Action moves to Chuck Elme’s Blue Sky for Friday’s first match.
Friday at 1pm-Game #7
Stone Rows Farm (8) vs Tupiungato (7)
Blue Sky?? How bout grey sky……. threatening sky….anything but blue sky as Luis Rinaldini’s Tupungato met up against Kim Foley’s Stone Rows Farm over at Chuck Elme’s club on the other side of the Hudson. It was a coin toss right from the beginning coin toss as to which chukker the thundering skies would send us scurrying to the trailers. Well that chukker never came as two of Bracket II’s favorites went head to head and bit to bit for six tough chukkers.
Stone Rows took chukker one, but the Tupungato foursome all contributed a score in chukkers two and three to take both chukkers,,,,,2-1.
That gave Tupungato a 4-3 lead at the half. Tempers were heated and technicals were being distributed as the battle continued to build.
Stone Rows took chukker 4, 2-1 and then Tupungato claimed chukker 5,1-0, So Tupungato starts Chukker 6 with a one goal lead and a # 5 penalty due to a technical against Stone Row at the end of the fifth. Rinaldini took an awesome pass on that penalty and scored to put his Long Island squad up by two to start the sixth. Now that is the very setting to proove whether the team down had the needed resolve to be of championship caliber. Well…..this would not be the first time Guilli Aguero would prove he is championship kind of stuff, as he scored three unanswered goals to take the lead, the chukker, and the match for Stone Rows Farm, with only seconds remaining in regulation time.
So the setting for Sunday mornings game between Buena Vista and Stone Rows Farm takes a whole new dimension. A win for Stone Rows would clinch the bracket with a clean sweep and allow Foley’s group a berth in the finals.
A win by Don Langlois’s Buena Vista would set up a potential three way tie between Buena Vista. Tupungato, and Stone Rows Farm. In fact, a one goal win by Buena Vista, would put all three teams in a three way tie in win/loss(assuming Tupungato is able to beat Burnt Mills) as well as a three way tie on net goals. Gross goals may have to decide it…if not…a coin toss. What a bracket !!!!!
Friday…Mashomack at 5:30pm-Game #8-Rain Delayed
Polo Do/Supersize (7) vs Smithfield Farm (7) at the end of 4
Back to Mashomack for the 5:30 game that hasnt ended yet, between Polo Do/Supersize(the combined effort of Matias Bullrich & Bruce Colley) and John Klopp’s Smithfield Farm. The game had to be called at the end of 4, due to heavy rain, but not until Michel Dorignac and company let it be known that Polo Do can Polo Does as they stepped out of the under-dog status and put themselves neck and neck with one of this tournament’s favorites, Smithfield Farm. Smithfield started off with the lone score in the first, but something happened in chukker two and that something would be Michel Dorginac as he matched Fancisco Bilbao’s two goals and raised the bet by three unanswered goals in chukker 3, putting Polo Do/Supersize up 5-3 at half.
Well that did not sit very well with the Smithfield entry, as Bilbao and Ezcurra combined for four goals to double Polo Do/Supersize’s effort of 2 goals in chukker 4. One of those two goals came off of a penalty three awarded to Michel at the closing of chukker 4, right about when the skles opened up and drenched all of us up on horseback. So the game stops all tied at 7, with two…or more chukkers left to be played. if all goes well, those two chukkers will be at 11am on Saturday morning, immediately prior to the Club Challenge match.
Stay Tuned for Much More in the 2006 Eddie Moore
Current Standings:
Bracket I
Stone Rows Farm 2/0
Tupungato 1/1
Buena Vista 1/1
Burnt Mills 0/2
Bracket II
Longfield Farm 2/0
Smithfield Farm 1/0
Polo Do/Supersize 0/1
Bulltick Polo 0/2