Heathcote vs. Zacara

01/20/2012, 1:00 pm | IC West

Heathcote - 12, Zacara - 9

Earlier in the day Tommy Biddle scored ten goals in leading Heathcote (2-0) to a 12-9 win over Zacara (0-2) in Bracket II competition. The win will set up Sunday’s 3pm contest between Heathcote and Coca-Cola to see who will qualify for semifinal play.

Biddle opened the scoring on a 60 yard penalty conversion followed by charges up and down the field before Zacara’s Marcos Llambias tied it up at 1-1 on a goal from the field. Biddle closed out the chukker with a scoring shot. Heathcote took the early 2-1 lead.

Zacara took charge in the second chukker, as Llambias scored three consecutive goals (two from the field and one on a penalty shot).

Heathcote was shut out, and trailed 4-2 after two chukkers of play.

Heathcote struggled with its offense in the third, with Llambias scoring his fourth consecutive goal of the game for a 5-2 advantage.

Biddle converted another penalty shot at 2:16. At the end of the first half of play, Zacara rode off the field with a5-3 halftime lead.

Biddle added two more goals in the fourth, but Gonzalo Del Tour and Zacara team captain, Lyndon Lea, responded with single goals, and the two goal lead held with Zacara ahead 7-5 after four chukkers.

Long drives down the field on offense and deliberately positioned backhanders from the hard-hitting Biddle had turned Zacara’s backs to the play, and Heathcote took charge in the fifth chukker. A goal from the field from Jeff Blake was countered by four goals from Biddle (three on penalty shots, one from the field), and Heathcote regained a lead it hadn’t had since the first chukker, 9-8.

Lucas Monteverde was on the end of a pass from the throw-in at the start of the sixth chukker resulted in a 10-8 Heathcote lead with Zacara trying to find an answer. A penalty goal from Biddle was followed by a goal from the field from Nick Manifold, and Heathcote led by four goals, 12-8 with time running out. Del Tour scored the final goal of the game on a great individual effort, but it was Heathcote that rode of the field with the 12-9 victory.

Biddle scored an amazing ten goals in the Heathcote win. Teammates Manifold and Monteverde each added a goal for the win.

Llambias scored five times for Zacara. Del Tour scored two goals and Lea and Blake each added a goal.