Pilará-Piaget won their first Hurlingham Open game
- Piaget polo team with Marcos Heguy and Sebastian Merlos at Hurlingham Open championship
- Pilarà Piaget polo team defeated Chapa Uno 16-14 in their first match of the competition.
- Marcos Heguy, the leader of Pilarà Piaget polo team at hurlingham championship
- Pilarà piaget polo team player at Hurlingham Open championship
Pilará-Piaget, led by Piaget’s 10-goal ambassador Marcos Heguy, got off to a flying start in the Hurlingham Open Championship, the second tournament of Argentina’s world-beating Triple Crown series. They defeated Chapa Uno 16-14 in their first match of the competition.
This is the 116th running of the Hurlingham Open, Argentina’s oldest tournament. In their first season last year,Pilará-Piaget narrowly lost the title to La Aguada in the final.This year the Piaget-sponsored team had to fight hard to secure their first victory.
The game was all tied up in the first chukka, 2-2, and the teams were even in the second period, 5-5. Then Chapa Uno grabbed the lead, holding Pilará-Piaget scoreless to end the third period 7-5 up.Positions were reversed in the fourth chukka as Pilará-Piaget denied their opponents any goal and retook the lead to make it 9-7. Pilará-Piaget increased their advantage to 11-8 in the fifth period and 12-11 in sixth before Chapa Uno came back to tie the game 13-13 in the seventh chukka.
Pilará-Piaget outscored Chapa Uno in the eighth and last period to win the match 16-14. They next meet Alegria and after that La Aguada, one of the Triple Crown’s most powerful teams who denied them the Hurlingham Open by a single goal in 2008.
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