Elysian Ladies Tournament

Game 1: City Motor Auction. 1 Allessia Russo, 2 Bec Northmore, 3 Piet Barnard and 4 Rebecca Arnott. Pol Roger. 1 Jo Reid, 2 Cathy Wallis, 3 Nino Smith and Annie MacDonald and Judy Brian played as 1 player in position 4. Tex Webster was given the job of trying to tell these women when they were wrong and lucky for him they were not wrong too often. The crowd was minimal with only the die hard supporters and family present to watch a game of polo that was played much better that the handicaps would lead you to think. In the 1st chukka all the players on the field had a hit of the ball as it was taken up and down the field. A penalty was awarded to both teams but the shooters were unable to score and the chukka ended as it began with a half start to City Motor Auctions. In the early stages of the 2nd a penalty was taken by Nino and she scored the first of the game. ½ to 1. The 3rd chukka saw open play with Piet running the length of the field only to have the ball stolen by Nino in the goal mouth and taken back to her goal but it went wide. Piet was on the attack all the way through the chukka having 2 more attempts on goal but the score never changed. City Motors took a penalty which was cleared and in a team effort by Pol Roger the ball was taken to the goals were City Motors scrimmaged and cleared the ball to safety. The 4th was the same with the ball being bruised up and down the field until Cathy Wallis put it through to take her team, Pol Roger, to the victory. ½ to 2. Well done to all the players.

Game 2: FH Polo. 1 Robin Fitzhenry, 2 Cindy Padman, 3 Phillipa Fitzhenry and 4 Yvonne Freskie. A & L Windows. 1 Chloe Hunt, 2 Amanda Pierson, 3 Sandra Ballard and 4 Sue Lock. Lance Shepherd, after seeing what an easy job Tex had, took the whistle in this game. The A&L Windows had gone all out and had pink shirts and matching saddle cloths. I am not sure if the FH Polo teams spent the first chukka looking at how good their opposition looked but at the end of the first the pink girls had run the greens all over the field with Chloe and Sandra both scoring goals. The 1st ended 0 to 2. The green girls composed themselves in the 2nd and after fast play up and down the field Phillipa scored from the field. Moments later a penalty was awarded to FH Polo and Robin was on her game scoring to take the score to 2 all. Sandra Ballard came out on a very impressive “young” one in the 3rd and attacked relentlessly. She took a penalty but it missed and on the knock in she stole the ball but was unable to find the posts. Stlii 2 all. The 4th started with another penalty to pink but again the ball would not cooperate. Robyn also took another penalty but it was met in the goal mouth and cleared. The play went to and froe until Yvonne Freskie was able to score to give FH Polo the win. 3 to 2. Again well done to all the players.