Just a week ago it was Bendabout riding off the field at the end of the game with an 11-10, one goal win over a determined but outgunned Faraway team, this time it was Faraway’s tur
Taking the field with a last-minute substitute (Adam snow filling in for injured Sugar Erskine) and trying to develop some sort of rhythm to its attack, Faraway watched Bendabout’s Chris Nevins score the only goal of the first chukker on a penalty conversion.
Consecutive goals from Inaki Laprida and Lucas Criado had Bendabout up 3-0 before the Faraway offense answered back.
A penalty conversion from Julio Gracida and a goal from the field from Snow kept the score close, with Bendabout holding on to a narrow 3-2 lead.
Arellano scored two more goals in the third, with Bendabout team captain Gillian Johnston scoring from the field while Criado converted a penalty shot for a goal. Bendabout continued to lead, 5-4 at the end of the first three chukkers of play.
Gracida opened second half action with a penalty conversion followed by a goal from Bendabout’s Nevins. Snow scored the final goal of the chukker to tie it up at 6-6.
Two consecutive goals from Laprida had Bendabout up, 8-6 before Faraway responded. Arellano converted a difficult 60-yard penalty shot and then followed it up with a goal from the field. The chukker ended in an 8-8 deadlock with one chukker left to play in regulation time.
With Bendabout pressing the Faraway goal, Arellano picked the ball up off of the Faraway goal area and carried it 280 yards down the field for a goal, with Bendabout players racing after the streaking 9-goaler.
An ensuing penalty conversion by Arellano with 1:29 left to play put Bendabout behind the eight ball as they struggled to get two quick goals.
With time running out, Laprida scored his fourth goal of the contest, and Hutton Goodman’s Faraway Farm team celebrated the 2011 Joe Barry Memorial Cup Championship.
Julio Arellano earned MVP honors and led all scoring with six goals. Teammates Julio Gracida and Adam Snow scored two goals apiece in the win.
Inaki Laprida led the Bendabout attack with four goals. Lucas Criado and Chris Nevins scored two goals apiece and Gillian Johnston added a goal in the loss.
ERG WINS BOBBY BARRY CUP, 11-10
In earlier action, ERG relied on five goals from Jason Crowder (replacing Freddie Mannix) to score an 11-10 win over Patagones in the finals of the Bobby Barry Cup.
ERG jumped out to a 4-1 lead after the first chukker getting a pair of goals from Crowder and Paco De Narvaez, as a sputtering Patagones offense struggled to establish a rhythm.
In second chukker action, Santiago Wulff’s second goal of the game and a goal from the field from Memo Gracida got them back into the game, trailing 5-3 after two periods of play.
Wulff added two more goal in the third and team captain Gonzalo Avendano scored to put Patagones on top for the first time all afternoon, 6-5, but Crowder’s fourth goal of the game had it all even at 6-6 at the end of the first half.
Patagones continued to press the ERG defense, forcing fouls and putting Gracida at the penalty line. Two converted penalty shots and shutout defense in the fourth chukker ended with Patagones leading ERG 8-6 going into the fifth chukker.
Three unanswered goals from ERG in the fifth (two from Crowder and one from Santi Torres) gave ERG a 9-8 lead, as Patagones was unable to get on the scoreboard in the chukker, and it would all come down to the last seven minutes of play.
Gracida opened the final chukker with a goal from the field followed by a penalty conversion, giving Patagones a 10-9 edge, but ERG stormed back. Consecutive goals from Torres and De Narvaez ended the game with an 11-10 ERG victory.
High-goal action will continue with the opening games of the Ylvisaker Cup on Saturday, January 29 at 1 pm and 2 pm.
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