After 2 postponements, PH polo team seeks hot start vs Malaysians

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:26:14 +0000

By JAN CARLO ANOLIN

CALATAGAN, Batangas – Clear skies and fair weather showed up here yesterday but organizers deemed the Miguel Romero Polo Field ‘unsafe’ and ‘too wet’ to play and postponed the 0-2 goals divisions for the second straight day.

Polo competition manager Camila Lastrilla said the Federation of International Polo (FIP), led by technical delegate John Fisher, decided to move the matches for safety purposes.

CAMILA Lastrilla (Ali Vicoy)

“Even if the field was playable yesterday (Tuesday), we still wanted everybody to be safe,” Lastrilla said. “We had a signal No. 3 storm warning here in Batangas. We didn’t want to risk the safety of all our athletes, technical officials, as well as that of the horses.”

The four-day competition, however, still follows the original schedule from the playing draw and will run starting today until Monday, Dec. 9. with a break on Saturday, Dec. 7.

Brunei and Indonesia face off at 11 a.m. while Philippines will capitalize on homefield advantage when it battles Malaysia later at 1 pm.

Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) gave a nod to the two-day contingency for the missed games. A spare day was given on Tuesday but Lastrilla hopes to hold medal matches on Monday.

“The danger of having a field that’s too wet or playing in a field that’s too wet is that the horses can easily slip. When you have a very fast game  like polo where your horses are running full speed, stopping on a dim
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