WELLINGTON, FL – February 8, 2013 – Audi played its finest game of the high goal season Thursday to remain in contention for the Ylvisaker Cup at International Polo Club Palm Beach.

Behind a total team effort and ball-hawking defense, Audi scored a convincing 11-3 victory to eliminate Faraway in the tournament and continue its quest for its first title of 2013.

With the win, Grand Champions Polo Club-based Audi (1-1) remains in contention in the 14-team tournament. Faraway drops to 0-2.

All four Audi players scored a goal from the field.

Audi 8-goaler Nic Roldan led his team’s lightning-quick offense with seven goals including five penalty shots. Roldan has 14 goals including 10 penalty shots in two games.

It was the kind of game where just about everything went right for Audi, including Roldan’s third chukker goal that hit the goal post with a loud thud and bounced in with 4:23 left.

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WELLINGTON, FL – February 3, 2013 – Making its stadium debut as defending Ylvisaker Cup champions and wearing pink jerseys in honor of breast cancer awareness, Piaget rallied in the second half to defeat Goose Creek, 10-8, Sunday at International Polo Club Palm Beach.

With the win, Grand Champions Polo Club-based Piaget (1-1) remains in contention to defend its title in the 14-team tournament.

Behind 10-goaler Miguel Astrada, Piaget outscored Goose Creek, 6-2, in the final two chukkers to rally from a three-goal deficit early in the third chukker.

Astrada scored a game-high nine goals including six in the last two chukkers, and was named Most Valuable Player. His horse, Chaleco was named Best Playing Pony.

Astrada is second leading scorer in the tournament with 16 goals behind 10-goaler Facundo Pieres of Zacara with 21.

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Piaget Plays Sunday Stadium Game

WELLINGTON, FL – February 3, 2013 – Audi, known for its second-half heroics, fell short in its Ylvisaker Cup opener with a 10-9 loss to Lucchese Friday at windswept Isla Carroll East Field.

Down by four goals in the second chukker, Grand Champions Polo Club-based Audi cut its deficit to two goals (7-5) midway through the fourth chukker on Nico Pieres’ cut shot goal with 3:41 remaining.

Audi dug itself out of another four-goal deficit at the end of the fifth chukker with three goals from Nic Roldan to cut Lucchese’s lead to one goal but Audi squandered away four scoring opportunities in the final minutes of the game.

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WELLINGTON, FL – January 31, 2013 – Defending champion Piaget staged a furious second half rally but fell short and lost its Ylvisaker Cup opener to Coca-Cola, 15-11, on a brisk Thursday morning at Jan Pamela South Field.

After leading 2-0 early in the first chukker, Piaget was outscored 7-2 in the second and third chukkers and trailed 10-4 at halftime.

A second half rally, led by 10-goaler Argentine Miguel Novilla Astrada, cut Coca-Cola’s lead to four in the fifth chukker (12-8) and with 3:50 left in the game (14-10), but Piaget ran out of time to do any further damage.

Astrada scored a game-high seven goals including four penalty shots. Eighteen-year-old Joaquin Panelo added three goals. Piaget, debuting slick new game jerseys, opened the game with a 1-0 lead because of its 19-goal handicap for the 20-goal tournament.

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