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Pheasant Hollow sets sights on Empire Polo Club’s second tournament of the season

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The season continues at the Empire Polo Club with the 4-goal coyote Cup on Saturday and Sunday, December 9th and 10th.

Granite Bay (Cameron Smith, Eric Hammon, Victor Soto and Manny Rodriguez) will be joining Hanalei Bay (Krista Bonaguidi, Ron Bonaguidi, Ashton Wolf and Alvaro Tadeo) and Pheasant Hollow (Deb Vermoch, Eileen Duffy, Carlos Galindo and Tim Rudy) on Saturday, December 9th for the first day of competition in the Empire Polo Club’s 4-goal Coyote Cup.  Play is scheduled to get underway on the Empire Polo Club’s Field 7 at 11AM on Saturday, December 9th.

Pheasant Hollow’s Tim Rudy and Debra Vermoch (L to R) are coming off of a season opening win in lst week’s Desert Challenge.

The competition will take place in a round-robin format with each team playing the other teams for two consecutive chukkers. The totals from Saturday will be combined with Sunday’s scores to determine the tournament winner.

Although all three teams are rated at the tournament maximum 4-goals, Pheasant Hollow looks to be the pre-tournament favorite after racing through the competition in last week’s Desert Challenge for the title in the season’s opening tournament.  Phessnt Hill is also the last winner of the coyote Cup, taking home the silver in 2015.

The Coyote Cup is the second of four consecutive 4-goal tournaments which will be followed by the Jackalope Cup (Dec. 9-10) and the Holiday Cup (Dec. 23-24).

Eric Hammon will be taking the field with the Granite Bay team for his first tournament of the season.

The 2017-2018 Empire Polo season attracts players from across the country and around the world and offers fourteen weekends of fast-paced polo in the beautiful and relaxed setting of California’s winter playground.

The Empire Polo Club is located at 81-800 Avenue 51 in Indio, CA.  For further information go to the club website at http://www.empirepolo.com or call 760-342-7755.

Pheasant Hollow sets sights on Empire Polo Club’s second tournament of the season

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The season continues at the Empire Polo Club with the 4-goal coyote Cup on Saturday and Sunday, December 9th and 10th.

Granite Bay (Cameron Smith, Eric Hammon, Victor Soto and Manny Rodriguez) will be joining Hanalei Bay (Krista Bonaguidi, Ron Bonaguidi, Ashton Wolf and Alvaro Tadeo) and Pheasant Hollow (Deb Vermoch, Eileen Duffy, Carlos Galindo and Tim Rudy) on Saturday, December 9th for the first day of competition in the Empire Polo Club’s 4-goal Coyote Classic.  Play is scheduled to get underway on the Empire Polo Club’s Field 7 at 11AM on Saturday, December 9th.

Pheasant Hollow’s Tim Rudy and Debra Vermoch (L to R) are coming off of a season opening win in last week’s Desert Challenge.
Eric Hammon will be taking the field with the Granite Bay team for his first tournament of the season.

The competition will take place in a round-robin format with each team playing the other teams for two consecutive chukkers. The totals from Saturday will be combined with Sunday’s scores to determine the tournament winner.

Although all three teams are rated at the tournament maximum 4-goals, Pheasant Hollow looks to be the pre-tournament favorite after racing through the competition in last week’s Desert Challenge for the title in the season’s opening tournament.  Pheasant Hill is also the last winner of the Coyote Classic, taking home the silver in 2015.

The Coyote Classic is the second of four consecutive 4-goal tournaments which will be followed by the Jackalope Cup (Dec. 16th-17th) and the Holiday Cup (Dec. 23-24).

The 2017-2018 Empire Polo season attracts players from across the country and around the world and offers fourteen weekends of fast-paced polo in the beautiful and relaxed setting of California’s winter playground.

The Empire Polo Club is located at 81-800 Avenue 51 in Indio, CA.  For further information go to the club website at http://www.empirepolo.com or call 760-342-7755.

Pheasant Hollow takes early lead in Desert Challenge

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Carlos Galindo’s four goals helped carry Pheasant Hollow (Deb Vermoch, Eileen Duffy, Carlos Galindo and Tim Rudy) to a pair of wins the seasoning-opening 4-goal Desert Challenge Saturday afternoon at the Empire Polo Club.

Seattle’s Cameron Smith scored twice on the day.

The three-team round-robin began with Hanalei Bay (Krista Bonaguidi, Ron Bonaguidi, Ashton Wolf and Alvaro Tadeo) jumping out to an early 3-0 lead over Seattle (Cameron Smith, Suki Piper, Victor Soto and Goyo Mariscal) and running off with the 4-2 victory in the opening two chukkers of the tournament.

Carlos Galindo led the scoring on the day with four goals as Pheasant Hollow recorded two first wins in the opening day of play for the 2017 Desert Challenge at the Empire Polo Club Saturday afternoon.

Two 30-yard penalty conversions from Krista Bonaguidi and a goal from the field from Ashton wolf gave Hanalei Bay an early 3-0 lead that they never gave up.

Seattle scrambled back in the second period with a goal from the field from Victor Soto and a 30-yard penalty goal from Cameron Smith.  Alvaro Tadeo closed out the scoring for Hanaei Bay for the 4-2 win.

Seattle remained on the field for the second two-chukker mini-match against Pheasant Hollow, but fared no better.  Seattle matched Pheasant Hollow goal for goal in the opening seven minutes of play, countering goals from Tim Rudy and Carlos Galindo with single goals from Smith and Soto, 2-2.  But the next seven minutes belonged to Pheasant Hollow.

Deb Vermoch converted a 30-yard penalty shot followed by goals from Galindo and Eileen Duffy.  Seattle was held scoreless and fell, 5-2.

In the final two chukkers of play, Pheasant Hollow and Hanalei Bay battled to a 2-2 tie in the opening chukker.  Wolf got Hanalei Bay on the scoreboard first, but Pheasant Hollow countered with a goal from Rudy, 1-1.  Tadeo’s second score of the day had Hanalei Bay in te lead, 2-1, but Galindo closed out the scoring in the period for a 2-2 deadlock.  Krista Bonaguidi and Rudy traded goals in the final chukker, 3-3.  Galindo scored his tournament high, fifth goal of the afternoon for the 4-3 Pheasant Hollow win.

The day ended with Pheasant Hollow in the lead, 9; Hanalei Bay in second place with 7 goals and Seattle in third with 4.5 goals (the 3-goal Seattle team received one-half goal by handicap).

Desert Challenge Cup play continues at 11:30am on Field 5 at the Empire Polo Club with the total goals from Saturday and Sunday’s goals combined to determine the tournament winner.

The Desert Challenge is the first of four consecutive 4-goal tournaments, followed by the Coyote Cup, the Jackalope Cup and the Holiday Cup.

The 2017-2018 Empire Polo season attracts players from across the country and around the world and offers fourteen weekends of fast-paced polo in the beautiful and relaxed setting of California’s winter playground.

The Empire Polo Club is located at 81-800 Avenue 51 in Indio, CA. For further information, go to the club website at http://www.empirepolo.com or call 760-342-7755.