Coca-Cola vs. Lechuza Caracas
03/08/2012, 12:00 pm |
Lechuza Caracas - 15, Coca-Cola - 8
Lechuza Caracas flexed their muscles in Thursday afternoon’s USPA Piaget Gold Cup contest by embarrassing a veteran Coca-Cola team 15-8.
An aggressive Lechuza Caracas attack kept Coca-Cola on their heels as the entire lineup pummeled the anemic defense and ran up a 4-1 first chukker score. A penalty goal from Sapo Caset got the party started followed by a pair of well executed goals from Facundo Obregon for a 3-0 lead. Julio Arellano finally got Coca-Cola on the scoreboard, but a final goal from Juan Martin Nero gave Lechuza Caracas the 4-1 lead.
Three straight goals from Lechuza Caracas increased the lead to six goals, 7-1 before Hilario Ulloa broke the ice with his first goal of the day. The Lechuza Caracas lead stood at five goals, 7-2, after the first two chukkers of play.
Lechuza Caracas team captain Victor Vargas scored a goal from the field in the third that was sandwiched between a pair of penalty goals from Caset. A stalwart defense held Coca-Cola scoreless in the third chukker; with Lechuza Caracas taking a commanding 10-2 lead at the end of the first half.
Goals from Caset and Nero in the fourth were countered by a single penalty goal from Luis Escobar, and the chukker ended with the Lechuza Caracas lead ballooning to nine goals, 12-3.
Two goals from the field from Caset ran the score to 14-3, but Coca-Cola didn’t give up. Team captain Gillian Johnston scored from the field followed by a 60-yard penalty conversion from Arellano. The period ended with Coca-Cola trailing by nine goals, 14-5.
Coca-Cola added three more goals in the sixth chukker with two of them coming from Johnston. Escobar scored his third goal of the afternoon, but that would be where the Coca-Cola rally would end. Caset converted a 40-yard penalty shot to end the match in a 15-8 Lechuza Caracas win.
Caset led all scoring with nine goals (three on penalty shots). Obregon accounted for three goals; Nero scored twice; and Vargas added a goal in the victory.
Johnston and Escobar led the Coca-Cola offense with three goals each. Ulloa and Arellano added single goals in the loss.
