ITHACA, N.Y.— The Cornell men’s polo team fell to 4-3 on the season with an 18-10 loss to the University of Connecticut on Friday night at the Oxley Equestrian Center.
Junior Benito Jaramillo Samper led the Big Red in goals with four. Freshmen Max Sponer and Dylan Tung each notched two and senior Christian Finlay had one.
“A disappointing loss for our guys to be sure,” said Peter B. Orthwein ’68 Head Coach of Polo Anthony Condo Jr. “However, we did a lot of really great things as we found our offensive stride in the second chukker. Defensively though, we had far too many breakdowns that led to us playing catch-up throughout the night and left a couple of really talented players wide open and in scoring position.”
Read the full scoring breakdown below:
FIRST CHUCKER
- The first chucker began with a goal from UConn’s Joaquin Uibe to put the Huskies up 1-0 at the start of the game.
- Winston Painter followed up with four more goals for UConn before the first chucker ended with the score of 5-0 in favor of the Huskies.
SECOND CHUCKER
- UConn opened the scoring in the second chucker with a goal from Malachi Light.
- Cornell answered with two goals from Dylan Tung and one from Benito Jaramillo making the score 6-3.
- Painter then notched two more goals for Uconn extending its lead to 8-3.
- Max Sponer answered with two goals of his own to cut the lead to three to end the second chucker with Uconn in the lead 8-5.
THIRD CHUCKER
- UConn opened the third chucker of scoring with two goals making the score 10-5.
- Cornell’s Jaramillo and Finlay each notched a goal to bring the game back within three.
- UConn then notched two more goals, Cornell notched one and then UConn tallied one more to end the chucker with UConn in the lead 13-8.
FOURTH CHUCKER
- The fourth chucker began with a UConn goal to extend the lead to 14-8.
- The teams then went back-and-forth in scoring before UConn scored two more goals to end the game 18-10 in favor of the Huskies.
“We’ll review the game tape of this one in detail as we prepare for our upcoming Field Tournament this coming week,” said Condo Jr. “We’ll learn from this and we’ll be better our next time out.”
The Big Red will take to the field once again on Saturday, Nov. 23 against the University of North Texas to begin its home tournament, the Bill Field Invitational.