The Piaget Silver Cup featured two games today, the first between Mansour and Lucchese had some show stopping talent, as America’s newest 10 goal player Sapo Caset, challenged the grand master, 10 goal Adolfo Cambiaso. The game was fast and running, with Mansour patron Ben Soleimani making a big contribution to his team’s offense with two goals in the first half, but the superlative play of Adolfo helped Lucchese to a lead of 8-6 going into halftime. Mansour put on a show in the 4th, as Miguel Astrada on a beautiful handy grey mare was everywhere, and the score was tied at 9-9 at the end of the 4th. The score was still tied, at 10-10, after the 5th, but then Juan Curbelo scored the go ahead goal for Lucchese followed by two more insurance goals from Adolfo to make the final score 13-10 in favor of Lucchese.
Grants Farm and ERG played a hard physical game in the second half of the double header. Although ERG was playing with an unfamiliar lineup, as Mariano Gonzalez flew in to play in place of an ERG player still in England, the chemistry worked just fine for ERG, as they controlled the pace for most of the game. Grants Farm rallied to tie in the 3rd, but Paco de Narvaez crushed any chance of a come back with back to back goals in the span of a minute in the 4th chukker. Final score was 12-8 in favor of ERG
Updated schedule:
Friday July 22
2pm C Piaget vs Mansour
4pm F Audi vs Grants Farm
Sunday July 24
1pm C Piaget vs Lucchese
3pm F Audi vs ERG
Friday July 29
10am Consolation or practice for teams not in semifinals
2pm Semifinal: #1 in Bracket I vs #2 in Bracket II
4pm Semifinal: #2 in Bracket I vs #1 in Bracket II
6:30pm Lucchese America Cup draw
Sunday July 31
10am (Lucchese America Cup bracket game)
1pm Piaget Silver Cup Final
3pm (Lucchese America Cup bracket game)
Teams Bracket A
Lucchese: John Muse, Jeff Blake, Adolfo Cambiaso, Juan Curbello
Mansour: Ben Solemoni, Jared Sheldo, Sapo Casset, Miguel Astrada
Piaget: Melissa Ganzi, Jason Crowder, Lolo Catagolia, Juan Bollini
Bracket B
Grant’s Farm: TBA, Jeff Hall, Nick Roldan, Andy Busch
ERG: Scott Woods, Santi Torres, Paco De Narvaez, Mariano Gonzalez
Audi: Marc GAnzi, Suger Erskine, Pablo Pieres, Lucas Lalor
