L to R-Adolfo Cambiaso and Bautista Heguy in Hurlingham Open play.
La Dolfina (Adolfo Cambiaso, Pelon Stirling, Pablo MacDonough and Juan Martín Nero) showed no wear and tear from their recent Tortugas Open championship win as they rolled over Chapaleufú (Alberto Heguy, Francisco Elizalde, Bautista Heguy and Eduardo Heguy), 22-10, in the opening match of the 2013 Hurlingham Open at the Hurlingham Club in Buenos Aires.
The 2012 defending champion fell behind 3-2 in the opening chukker. Francisco Elizalde scored the go-ahead-goal for Chapaleufú to end the period.
Adolfo Cambiaso went right to work in the second chukker, scoring the first two goals of the chukker to give La Dolfina a 4-3 advantage. Single goals by teammates Pelon Stirling and Pablo MacDonough extended the lead to three goals, 6-3. Cambiaso’s second goal of the chukker had La Dolfina on top, 7-3, but Eduardo Heguy got his team on the scoreboard with a closing goal, 7-4.
Pepe Heguy exchanged goals in the third, each accounting for a pair. The third period ended with La Dolfina retaining their three goal lead, 9-6.
Goals were hard to come by in the fourth. Cambiaso and Elizalde each scored for their respective teams. The first half of play, La Dolfina was in front, 10-7.
La Dolfina began to press the attack in the second half. Eduardo Heguy opened the scoring with a goal for Chapaleufú, 10-8, before the floodgates opened. La Dolfina racked up four consecutive goals with each member of the team scoring. Cambiaso led off followed by goals from Juan Martin Nero, MacDonough and Stirling. The La Dolfina lead had grown to six goals, 14-8.
Elizalde opened the sixth with a goal, but La Dolfina took the game back with three more goals. Stirling added two and Cambiaso scored once. La Dolfina took command of the game, 17-9.
Stirling and Nero scored single goals in the seventh for the only offense. Chapaleufú was unable to successfully mount an attack the entire chukker and fell behind by ten goals, 19-9.
A totally demoralized Chapaleufú foursome went through the motions in the final seven minutes of play as La Dolfina rang up the first three goals of the chukker. Eduardo Heguy ended the game with his fifth goal of the game but it was a well-oiled La Dolfina offense that rode away with the game, 22-10.
Cambiaso led all scoring with ten goals (three on penalty shots). Stirling added six goals (one on a penalty conversion). MacDonough and Nero scored three goals apiece for the win. Eduardo Heguy scored five times for Chapaleufú (three on penalty conversions). Elizalde accounted for three goals and Pepe Heguy scored twice in a losing effort.
LA AGUADA 20, ALEGRIA 15
A case of appendicitis plucked 8-goaler Polito Pieres from the Alegria lineup (Diego Cavanagh, Hilario Ulloa, Lucas Monteverde and Fred Mannix) which might have accounted for the team’s 20-15 loss to La Aguada (Guillermo Terrera, Facundo Sola, Miguel Novillo Astrada and Nacho Novillo Astrada) in spite of replacement Diego Cavanagh’s six goals in the second Hurlingham Open game of the day.
Diego Cavanagh had been playing with La Matera in the qualifying rounds before being eliminated in semifinal play by Chapaleufú, and was fortunate enough to extend his Open season by joining the Alegria entry.
La Aguada took an early lead, 2-1, in the opening chukker as both teams felt out the other’s strengths and weaknesses. Alegria had beaten La Aguada 13-8 in Tortugas Open play, but on Tuesday afternoon they rode onto the field with a different lineup and little practice time as a team.
The La Aguada lead stretched to 5-3 after the second chukker and 11-8 at the end of the first half. A four goal fifth period stretched the La Aguada lead to six goals, 15-9 as their teamwork resulted in goal after goal.
Alegria made a late charge, cutting the La Aguada lead to five goals, 16-11 in the sixth. For the balance of the match Alegria could do no better than to match La Aguada goal for goal, falling 20-15 at the end of the game.
A balanced La Aguada attack had Miguel Novillo and Nacho Novillo Astrada scoring six goals apiece (three of Miguel’s were on penalty conversions). Guillermo Terrera and Facundo Sola each scored four times (three of Sola’s goals were on penalty shots). Cavanagh scored two of his team high six goals on penalty conversions. Ulloa added five goals (one on a penalty shot). Lucas Monteverde and Fred Mannix scored two goals each in the loss.
Hurlingham Open action continues on Wednesday, October 16th with Ellerstina/Piaget (Facundo Pieres, Gonzalito Pieres, Mariano Aguerre and Nicolás Pieres) facing Magual (Alejandro Muzzio, Ignacio Toccalino, Marcos Di Paola and Jaime Huidobro) at 2PM followed by a battle between La Natividad (Sapo Caset, Nachi Heguy, Rodrigo Andrade and Lolo Castagnola) and La Aguada – Las Monjitas (Agustin Merlos, Magoo Laprida, Eduardo Novillo Astrada, Alejandro Novillo Astrada) at 4:30PM at the Hurlingham Club.