Colony Sugar has opened its campaign for the Bank Alfalah National Polo Championship for the Quaid-e-Azam Gold Cup 2012 in style winning the opening match with a big margin here at the Lahore Polo Club ground. From among the four matches played on the opening day of the championship on Tuesday, Colony Sugar tapped the biggest margin win hammering Al Khan-Ciro’s 10-3 with Santiago Mendivil being the star of the match having scored eight goals of the 10. With this win Colony Sugar not only earned two valuable points but they also got plus seven average which placed them over the top of the standing.
In the other matches of the day, Pakistan Army-Nadra edged ahead of Guard Group/Newage 9-8 with James Harper being the hero of the winning team while the losing side star was Hissam Ali Hyder.
BBJ Pipes, which is placed second on the leaderboard had moved past Hattaf/Diamond Paints combination 8-6. Gerardo Mazzini led the BBJ Pines to this hard-fought thumping win while Vieri Antinori played well for Hataff-Diamond but did not match the guiles of Mazzini. In the last game of the day, Nestle put aside Master Paints 9-8 and in this win all the four riders of Nestle were instrumental while Masters relied heavily on their foreign players, Ignacio Moore and Gaston Moore. The umpires and referees for the matches were Simon Mclaren Tosh, Ignacio Del Tour, Manuel Crespo, James Harper, Raja Temur Nadeem, Gerardo Mazzini, Shah Qubilai Alam Santiago Mendivil and Vieri Antinori.
