Rain-hit Tenacious Polo enters semifinal stage

Rain-hit Tenacious Polo enters semifinal stage

LAHORE: The rain-hit Tenacious Polo Cup 2020 reached the semifinals stage as the matches were decided on penalty shootouts here at the Lahore Polo Country Club (LPCC) on Wednesday.

The first two days of the event were washed out by rain while due to wet conditions, full-fledged matches couldn’t take place and were decided on penalty shootouts. In the first match of the day, Artema Medical/Black Horse Paints thumped FG Polo Team 6-3. From the winning side, only two penalties were missed while the losing side missed five penalties. The second match was won Diamond Paints Blue as they edged out Master Paints 8-7. Diamond Paints Blue converted all the eight penalties while Master Paints missed only one.

In the third match, Barry’s beat BN Polo Team 8-7 as the winning side succeeded in scoring all penalties while the losing team just missed one penalty. In the fourth match, Monnoo Polo Team defeated AOS Polo Team by 6-4, Tetra Pak defeated Artema Medical/Black Horse Paints 7-6 in the fifth match while Barry’s outpaced Diamond Paints White 7-6 in the sixth and last match of the day.

Now on Friday, the first semifinal will be played between Tetra Pak and Diamond Paints Blue at 2:00 pm while Barry’s will vie against Monnoo Polo in the second semifinal at 3:00 pm at LPCC.

On Saturday, the losing sides of Pool A including FG Polo Team, Artema Medical/Black Horse Paints and Master Paints will vie against each other in two-chukker matches at Cavalry Polo Ground for subsidiary final while Pool B sides including AOS Polo Team, BN Polo Team and Diamond Paints Whites will vie against each other in two-chukker matches at Fortress

Stadium.

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