Posts Tagged ‘Jeff Hall’

Valiente cruises into US Open semifinals

In an uninspired effort, Valiente kept its undefeated record intact by scoring an 8-5 win over Bendabout/Wanderers in the 2010 Arcalux US Open tournament Sunday afternoon. 
Bendabout entered the contest with an 0-2 record and averaging just five goals a game while the undefeated Valiente team (2-0) was averaging over 10 goals a game in its [...]

Valiente and Lechuza Score Wins in Open Play

The prospect of brother playing brother in serious high goal polo isn’t rare, but the chance of five brothers taking the field at the same time is.  Thursday morning. In a preliminary match of the 2010 US Open Championship, Camilo Bautista’s Las Monjitas team faced Bob Jornayvaz’s Valiente foursome with the five Astrada brothers taking [...]

Valiente wins first Open match, Audi remains unbeaten

Easter was in the air at the International Polo Club Sunday afternoon with an Easter Egg Hunt, a handful of professional sports team mascots from the Florida Marlins, the Miami Heat, the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Rays. At halftime there was an Easter Hat contest, and plenty of excitement on and around [...]

USPA 106th U.S. Open Polo Championships

INTERNATIONAL POLO CLUB PALM BEACH ANNOUNCES
TITLE SPONSOR OF THE USPA 106th U.S. OPEN POLO CHAMPIONSHIP
Sustainable Lighting Company
A Bright Addition to the 2010 Palm Beach Polo Season
WELLINGTON, Fla. – March 22, 2010 – International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC) has announced that Arcalux®, the award-winning manufacturer of energy efficient lighting systems, has acquired title [...]

Thousands Cheer Crab Orchard’s 12-7 Piaget Gold Cup Win

A veteran and balanced Crab Orchard attack scored seven straight goals from the third chukker to the fifth in taking the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup championship Sunday afternoon in the finals against Las Monjitas at the International Polo Club.
“I was both pleased and excited to see over five thousand spectators on hand for the [...]

Vargas Scores Six Goals in Win, Orchard Hill Falls

The arrival of Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian (of the reality television show on E Entertainment, Keeping up with the Kardashians), at the International Polo Club in Wellington wasn’t enough to disrupt the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup action, but it did provide some pre-game entertainment for any early-arriving polo fans. 
Staging the trappings of a polo [...]

Piaget Gold Cup Qualifiers still undecided

Orchard Hill, Las Monjitas and the Hawks scored wins in Thursday’s second round of the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington.  The wins left the three teams with perfect 2-0 records while Pony Express, Piaget, and Bendabout all wound up with 0-2 records. 
In the opening game of the day, [...]

Las Monjitas wins 20-goal Pennell Cup

Las Monjitas trampled a bewildered Zacara team 14-9 to capture the final 20-goal tournament of the season, the Herbie Pennell Cup.
“We got off to a slow start this season,” said Las Monjitas 9-goaler Javier Astrada, “but we began playing better and better each week.  I think we played our best game of the year today.”
A [...]

Zacara in finals, Las Monjitas-Lechuza rained out

In the first semifinal of the 2010 Herbie Pennell 20-goal tournament at the International Polo Club in Wellington, Zacara scored an 11-7 win over the Bendabout polo team to earn a spot in Sunday’s championship Pennell Cup match.
It took a few chukkers for Zacara to find itself, but after a brief rain intermission following the [...]

Mt. Brilliant downs Zacara in Ylvisaker Cup Play

There were no great expectations for Zacara as it took the field at the International Polo Club in Wellington with a perfect 3-0 record in Ylvisaker Cup play to meet winless Mt. Brilliant (0-3) in a game that would have little impact on the playoff standings, but was needed as a confidence builder for Bo [...]

Zacara, Lucchese and the Hawks score wins

Zacara rode onto the Piaget Field at the International Polo Club just a week after winning the 2010 Joe Barry memorial Cup with an exciting 13-1 win over the Hawks and couldn’t look much better.  After scoring a 12-5 Ylvisaker Cup win over Bendabout just four days earlier, the English sponsored team scored a decisive [...]