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LAHORE, Jan 18: Remounts Orange beat Diamond Paints 7-3 to enter the final of the Pepsi Cup polo tournament at the Lahore Polo Club Friday.
A 7-goal handicap player, Garardo Mazzini, from Argentina, scored five goals, including a hat-trick.
Remounts Orange will meet Al-Baraka Islamic Bank in the final Sunday at 3 pm.
Al-Baraka Islamic Bank beat Falcons 7-5 1/2 with four points and qualified from pool “A”. Remounts Orange qualified for the final from pool “B” by virtue of better goal average than Remounts Whites and Diamond Paints even though all three teams were tied with two points, each. Malik Atif Yar Tiwana scored three goals for Al-Baraka Islamic Bank while Dr I. A. Khan Simba scored a hat trick for the losers.
Diamonds Paints had advantage of two goals on handicap and could score only one goal during play. Lt.-Col. Isfandyar Pataudi scored that consolation goal just before conclusion of the match by converting a 30 yards penalty-hit.
Mazzini struck form and scored three field goals of second chukker to complete his hat-trick. He also scored the only goal of the third chukker on 60 yards penalty-hit. Mazzini converted a spot penalty at start of fourth chukker. For Remounts, Farooq Chughtai and Ahmad Khan also put in a field goal each.
Remounts Orange: Farooq Chughtai (0), Sufi Muhammad Amir (0), Ahmad Khan (3), Garardo Mazzini (7).
Diamond Paints: Saqib Khakwani (2), Samiullah (3), Lt.-Col. Isfandyar Pataudi (2), Mir Shoaib Ahmad (0).
Falcons had advantage of half-a-goal on handicap and put in five goals during play. But Al-Baraka Islamic Bank struck seven times to win the match. For the bank, Atif scored three, his brother and teammate Malik Asif Yar Tiwana scored two and Shah Qublai Alam and Faaiz Rahim Khan scored one goal, each.
Besides Dr I. A. Khan Simba’s three goals for Falcons, Ivan Jose Araya (6-goal handicap player from Argentina) put in two goals. Al-Baraka Islamic Bank: Faaiz Rahim Khan (1), Malik Atif Yar Tiwana (3), Shah Qublai Alam (3), Malik Asif Yar Tiwana (3).
