LAHORE, Feb 25: Five goals by Diego Araya including a hat trick enabled Samsung Mobiles Blues to beat Nee Punhal 10-4 to claim the Aibak Polo Cup at the Lahore Polo Club Sunday.

In the subsidiary final, Remounts beat KFC/Remounts by 6-5 1/2 to take third position.

Punhal with two goals on handicap could only score two goals through Shah Qublai Alam who scored in the first and third chukker. The better -ridden Blues quartet not only put up a good defence but struck at regular intervals to win by a wide margin.

Malik Atif Yar Tiwana scored all his three goals during the first chukker. Araya himself converted a 30 yards penalty-hit. At end of the first chukker, Blues led 4-3.

Araya scored both the field goals of second chukker to increase the lead 6-4, completing his hat-trick in the third with a field goal

Faiz Rahim scored back-to-back goals to enhance Blues’ lead to 9-4.

Araya scored the only goal of fourth chukker on another 60 yards penalty -shot to make the score 10-4.

The match for the third spot was keenly contested. KFC/Remounts had advantage of half-a-goal on handicap and scored five goals during play. Toto Collardin struck thrice while Captain Haseeb Minhas and Captain Shahryar scored a goal, each.

For Remounts, Ahmad Khan and Gerardo Mazzini scored three goals, each to register the narrow win. Both Ahmad Khan and Mazzini scored their last goals during the last chukker which tilted the match in Remounts’ favour and Captain Shahryar’s last goal of the match on a spot penalty near the goalpost could not save KFC/Remounts from the loss.