Aureus 12 – 11 Calatagan LL

White Crane 13 – 9 La Magdeleine

Kazak 8 – 6 King Power

 Three more games today with teams already looking ahead to next weekend’s knockout quarter-finals. First up today was a good game at Les Lions between Sunjay Kapur’s Aureus and Marty Romauldez’s Calatagan LL. Both teams have notched up one win and one loss and so there was a lot at stake today. Creating a two-win cushion going into their final match would be invaluable. Calatagan LL looked like they might have this in the bag as they led going into every chukka. However the Panelo brothers, Tomy and Benjamin, had other ideas. Some great team-work in the sixth chukka brought Aureus level. Then with just under a minute left to play Tomas Panelo fired through a penalty to win the game 12-11.

Next up was a more clear-cut affair at Guards Polo Club between La Magdeleine and White Crane on The Queen’s Ground at Guards Polo Club. The latter dominated this game with the 17-year-old Lorenzo Chavanne firing through goal after goal. With the 10-goaler Pablo Pieres in support, Alexie Calvert-Ansari’s team were unstoppable. They had built up a three-goal lead after the first chukka and just kept pushing. La Magdeleine tried to get themselves back on terms but struggled to convert some good polo into goals.

The high-goal show moved to Noel Farm to close the day’s action. This was a slow game between the unbeaten King Power team, with Henry Lunn subbing for patron Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, in action against Sebastien Aguettant’s Kazak team, hunting down their first win in this, their first season. These teams were all square, 4-4, at half time and again (6-6) after the fifth. It was Kazak that pulled away in the sixth to win this match 8-6. Fran Elizalde, who had produced an outstanding game across all six chukkas, with the Polocam TV team naming him their man of the match, scoring the only goals in this final chukka to ensure Kazak ruled the day.

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