PINK PICNIC POLO DAY

The Pink Picnic Polo Day was held on Sunday. The first game was the final of the womens tournament between FH Polo in green and A&L Windows in pink. FH Polo got away to a fast and furious start with Philipa Fitz-Henry scoring early in the 1st. Green attached the goal several more times but good defense from Sandra Ballard and Sue Lock saved the pink team. At the end of the 1st it was 1-1/2 to green. The 2nd started the same way as the 1st with Philipa scoring 2 running goals. The pink girls rallied and attacked towardes the end of the chukka but it ran wide. 3-1/2 to green. The 3rd chukka was fast and furious, the speed that these girls played at was great and even the men were suprised how fast it was going, with both teams attacking the goals but no more goals were scored. Pink took a penalty but missed and the ball was cleared by Philipa and taken all the way to the goal but she could not get it through. Another penalty was awarded to pink and the ball stopped beside the post but would not roll across the line. The pink girls fired up then and Sandra, again on the "young" one Ziggy, Stole the ball from a dangerous attack by green and turned the tables to score. 3-1 1/2. Another penlty was given to pink and converted. The chukka ended 3-2 1/2. The 4th started with Philipa attacking again on Salabre then counter attack from pink as they hit 2 more behinds. A knock in across the goal by Yvonne Freskie was picked up by Philipa and taken all the way to score. Some of the watching men were in awe and several of the male players comented on what a great goal it was. 4-2 1/2. The pink girls were not don yet though and an other good goal was scored by Amanda Pierson for pink. 4 3 1/2. With the clock winding down the ball was thrown in and taken from the lineout by Sue and --------------SCORE. The bell went and A&L Windows had run out the winners by 4-4 1/2. Well done to all the girls playing in the tournament as i think they have set a great standard for ladies polo and everyone that watched the the final were thrilled with the standard of play. The MVP was awarded the Philipa Fitz-Henry. The next game was the Patrons game and this was won by Talmore. K. Goodall -2, M. Huebner 0, R. Ross 0 and N. Ford 0. One of the highlights of this game was Wayne Fussel riding out to start the 4th chukka on a grey 10hh pony. The 2 14 goal games played saw Halkeas, once again come back in the 6th afater being 3 goals down against Willowcroft, to win by 1 goal. Muzzio and Arizona dominataed the chikka and ran several rings around the oppisition. In the 6th also DJ was replaced by Craig Wilson after tearing his riding muscle. He is going to be replaced for the rest of the tournament by Sam Hopkins. The second 14 goal game was won by Sandalford over Custodian by 2 goals. Thank you the Mike King for the use of Elysian Fields to help the polo community to raise funds for NBCF.