Audi vs. Coca-Cola

02/22/2012, 3:00 pm |

Audi - 10, Coca-Cola - 6

Both Audi and Coca-Cola approached Wednesday’s Ylvisaker Cup cautiously with the first score not coming until the sixth minute of play. Audi’s Nic Roldan converted a penalty shot for the first score of the match with Julio Arellano making good on a penalty shot for Coca-Cola in the final second of the chukker for a 1-1 tie.

Rodrigo Andrade, the “Brazilian cannon”, put Audi on top with a goal in the opening minute of the second period. Both teams had unsuccessful runs at goal before Coca-Cola got into foul trouble. Roldan made good on a penalty shot at goal at the 3:24 mark of the chukker, adding a second penalty goal in the period with just 18 seconds left to play. Two chukkers into the game, Audi held a 4-1 lead.

Julio Arellano got Coca-Cola on the scoreboard with a penalty conversion to open the third, cutting the Audi lead to two goals, 4-2. A couple of minutes later 3-goaler Mason Wroe carried the ball 200 yards down the field for another Coca-Cola score, and the Audi was cut to a single goal, 4-3. Roldan closed out the first half with his fourth goal of the game and a 5-3 Audi advantage.

Audi wasted little time getting back to work in the second half. Roldan scored another goal from the penalty line and Andrade scored from the field. With two-and-a-half minutes left in the chukker, Audi’s lead had grown to four goals, 7-3. A last second goal from Wroe kept Coca-Cola from getting shut out, but they continued to trail, 7-4.

Andrade stole the ball from a Coca-Cola player in the opening minute of the fifth chukker and centered a pass to a streaking Roldan.

Roldan drove it through the goalposts for a four goal, 8-4 lead. With time running out in the period, Arellano scored on a penalty goal.

After five chukkers Coca-Cola continued to trail Audi, 8-5.

Audi ran it up to 9-5 on a goal from Roldan in the opening minutes of the final chukker. Sugar Erskine scored a goal from the field for Coca-Cola, but time was running out and Audi held a comfortable 9-6 lead. Andrade took the final throw-in 150 yards for the final score as Audi captured a berth in Sunday’s Ylvisaker Cup finals against their stable-mate Piaget team.

Nic Roldan led the Audi attack with seven goals. Andrade scored three times in the win.

Arellano scored three penalty goals for Coca-Cola. Wroe added two goals from the field and Erskine scored once in the loss.