La Dolfina continues to roll; Chapa Uno picks up a win

By Alex Webbe

Chapa Uno (1-1) got back in the mix on Saturday with a hard-fought 13-12 win over Pilara Piaget (1-1) with a final winning goal scored by Brazilian 8-goaler Rodrigo Andrade.

Pilara Piaget’s Magoo Laprida scored the first goal of the game in a low scoring 1-0 first chukker, but Chapa Uno stormed back in the second.  Sapo Caset scored once from the field and once on a penalty shot while teammates Rodrigo Andrade and Pablo Pieres added single goals.  Laprida scored the only goal of the period for Pilara Piaget as Chapa took a 4-2 lead after two.

Pilara Piaget’s Luke Tomlinson (filling in for the injured Tomas Garcia Del Rio) opened the third chukker with a penalty conversion followed by a goal from the field from Hilario Ulloa to knot it up at 4-4.  Caset kept Chapa Uno on top, 5-4,  with a penalty goal to end the chukker.

Bautista scored for Pilara Piaget to tie it at 5-5 in the fourth, but Caset’s third penalty goal of the game had Chapa Uno on top 6-5 at the end of the first half.

Heguy and Caset exchanged penalty goals in the fifth, with Tomlinson’s first goal from the field locking it up at 7-7.  A final penalty conversion from Caset ended the period with Chapa Uno holding on to a narrow one goal lead, 8-7.

Caset stretched the Chapa Uno lead to two goals, 9-7, to open the sixth chukker, but three unanswered goals from Pilara Piaget’s Ulloa, Tomlinson (penalty shot) and Laprida gave Pilara Piaget a 10-9 edge as the period ended.

A pair of penalty conversions from Tomlinson extended the Pilara Piaget lead to three goals, 12-9, as the seventh chukker began, but Andrade and Pieres kept it close with single goals, and Chapa Uno trailed by a single goal, 12-11, with one chukker left in regulation time.

Caset tied it at 12-12 with his sixth penalty goal of the match, and Andrade scored the winning goal as the Chapa Uno defense was able to shut down the Pilara Piaget offense for the first time all afternoon.

Caset led all scoring with eight goals.  Andrade scored three times and Pieres added two goals in the win.

Tomlinson scored five times for Pilara Piaget (four by penalty).  Laprida added three and teammates Heguy and Ulloa scored two goals apiece in a losing effort.

LA DOLFINA 20, ESTANCIA GRANDE 10

There appeared to be no love lost as Adolfo Cambiaso and his new-look La Dolfina lineup faced two of his old teammates in the second contest of the day. 

Agustin Merlos scored the first goal of the game before La Dolfina responded with five straight goals.

Adolfo Cambiaso scored once from the field and once on a penalty shot while teammate Pablo MacDonough added a goal as La Dolfina took an early 3-1 lead.

Juan Martin Nero made it 4-1 in the second and a penalty conversion from Cambiaso had La Dolfina up 5-1 ads the second chukker ended.

Agustin Merlos scored the first two goals of the third period before the Estancia Grande offense bogged down.  Cambiaso scored a goal from the field, and the chukker ended with La Dolfina ahead, 6-3.

Both offenses got on track in the fourth with goals from David “Pelon” Stirling and teammate Nero scoring goals to extend the La Dolfina lead to five goals, 8-3, but Estancia Grande wasn’t ready to roll over, yet.  Two goals from Lucas Monteverde and a penalty goal from Agustin Merlos cut into the La Dolfina lead.  Two more goals from Cambiaso (one from the field and one on a penalty shot) kept La Dolfina in front with a four goal, 10-6 advantage as thje first half came to an end.

La Dolfina cranked it up again in the fifth, getting a pair of goals from MacDonough and single scoring efforts from Cambiaso and Stirling.  Estancia Grande managed two more penalty goals from Agustin Merlos, and La Dolfina took a 14-8 lead to the sidelines with them.

The sixth chukker was all La Dolfina.  Two penalty conversions from Cambiaso were sandwiched between single goals from Monteverde and MacDonough as the La Dolfina lead stood at eight goals, 17-9.

The La Dolfina shut down any semblance of an attack in the seventh period while picking up three more goals from Cambiaso (one from the field and two on penalty conversions).  With one chukker left to play, La Dolfina held an eleven goal advantage over a beaten Estancia Grande foursome.

With La Dolfina saving the horses for another day, Agustin Merlos was allowed the only goal of the final chukker in a 20-10 La Dolfina blowout.

Cambiaso scored twelve times for La Dolfina.  MacDonough accounted for four goals and Stirling and Nero added two goals apiece.

Agustin Merlos scored seven times for Estancia Grande.  Monteverde chipped in the other three in the loss.

Competition will continue on Monday, October 24 with a pair games in Zone 2 with La Aguada (1-0) facing Alegria (0-1) at 2PM followed by a contest between Ellerstina (1-0) and Chapa II.