Zacara vs. Audi

03/10/2012, 4:00 pm |

Zacara - 16, Audi - 15

The twenty-three goal Audi team was spotted three goals by Zacara as the game began, with Nic Roldan making it 4-0 just two minutes into the game. Ten-goaler Facundo Pieres got Zacara on the scoreboard on a penalty conversion, cutting the lead to three goals, 4-1.

Pieres opened the second chukker with a 60-yard penalty conversion in the opening seconds of play, 4-2, and Diego Arellano (substituting for team captain Lyndon Lea) cut the lead down to a single goal, 4-3, as he carried the ball through the Audi goal for his first score of the tournament. Audi team captain, Melissa Ganzi, scored on a well-executed drive down the field. Roldan scored on a penalty shot and Rodrigo Andrade took the ball from the ensuing throw-in and raced down the field for his first score of the game, 7-3. Pieres closed the chukker with a penalty conversion but Zacara continued to trail, 7-4.

Goals were hard to come by in the third. Roldan scored about halfway through the chukker, but Arellano scored his second goal just seconds later. The first half came to a close with Audi on top of an 8-5 score.
Two Zacara goals opened the fourth chukker with Pieres converting a penalty shot and Arellano adding another goal from the field. The Audi lead was reduced to a single goal, 8-7. Roldan and Pieres exchanged penalty goals, with Audi holding on the lead, 9-8. Roldan scored from the field with under two minutes left in the period, 10-8. Pieres turned the game around in the last minute of the period, however, scoring a goal with 56 seconds on the clock, 10-9, and tying it up at 10-10 with six seconds remaining.
Roldan opened the fifth period with a 60-yard penalty conversion in the first ten seconds of play, 11-10 and three consecutive goals from Andrade made it 14-10 with Zacara struggling to stay in the game.

Magoo Laprida picked up one goal for Zacara and Pieres converted a penalty shot for a goal, but Ganzi’s second field goal of the day had Audi ahead 15-12 with one chukker left to play.

Joaquin Pittaluga cut into the Audi lead with his first goal of the game, 15-13, and two penalty conversions from Pieres had it all even with under three minutes left in regulation time, 15-15. With 1:14 on the clock, Pittaluga scored a goal that gave Zacara its first lead of the game, 16-15. With time running out, Roldan took control of the ball and galloped toward the Zacara goal. With 24 seconds left in the game, Roldan’s shot at goal went just wide and the game ended in a Zacara win.

Pieres scored eight of his game high ten goals on penalty shots. Teammates Pittaluga, Laprida and Arellano added two goals apiece for the victory.

Roldan’s six goals led the Audi attack (three penalty goals). Andrade scored four times and Ganzi added two goals. Audi received three goals by handicap.