A polo photo of all involved in the Cut and Crew Classic

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What a nice group of people.

The Champions

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So we came down to play in the Cuttin Crew Classic polo invite. Our normal team of ben/jonny/kevin was broken up by kevin testing positive to a blood transfusion earlier this spring so we picked up a third in the very capable Mike Morrel. As always Milwaukee came in style, sporting there color co-ordinated jump suits. In a move that surprised many, i gave up the dan marino for a better geared ratio bike that i had loanded to Morality earlier this summer. The tournament was laid out in such away that each team played a round robin against everyone, so we played a full on 9 games in full during the initial series against a full assembly of teams. The games were played first to three points or whoever was ahead at 10 minutes was declared winner taking three points for a win, and one point for a tie.

Milwaukee A team cruised through the round robin with an undefeated record, they beat us 1-0 in what was probably the best game of the day. I would have loved to play it out to 3 but in interest of time we called it at 10 minutes. Madison made few friends in chicago with a controversial intentional foul by myself for not leaving the goal area after a foot down and after we took a 1-0 lead we played keep away over by the lake. I guess we will not be winning the sportsmanship awards this time around. The finals ended up being Milwaukee A team versus Madison/Chicago. We got there by ben putting in what as probably the goal of the tournament, a shot going uphill from about 30 feet out that placed the ball through lucky's triangle.

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Just got back from 7 hours of polo here at Reynold's field. Chicago was a no-show but Milwaukee represented with six of their best. the host city served up grilled quesadillas, 16 avocados worth of guacamole, 20lbs of tomatoes worth of salsa, and some crazy currant/blackberry pie, and there were copious 12 packs of cheap wisconsin beer.

We played mostly on grass, with a little hardcourt thrown in on the nearby thunderdome. Almost all games were mixed MKE/MSN, but near the end we threw in an intercity matchup with Jake Eric and Joe from Milwaukee vs Neil Ben and I--four out of six of the players who squared off in the finals in Chicago back in May. In my opinion MKE totally dominated in ball possession and scoring opportunities, but somehow Madison ended up winning the match 1-3, 3-2, 3-2.

So this sunday we are hosting the monthly friendlies. Should be a good time for all those involved. Especially since madison has been representing with so many new faces, it will be fun to show them off to the rest of the midwest. And if you are lucky, the dirty brits will challenge any midwest crew.

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Three little vids about what our KY brethern are up to this summer.

We are going too be playing this sunday at Reynolds park at 4pm. Don't need to bring a bike or mallets we will provide both.

It has been awesome to see how many new people have come out to polo in the last couple of weeks. It has meant a lot of fun and making bike polo in madison much more stable. It is no longer three people hoping to find a fourth on a sunday afternoon. Also we are playing twice a week right now with games on sunday afternoon and sometime during the week but that fluctuates, email if you have questions. For the best bet on information join the list serve. Also just so everybody knows i'm reposting kevin's about us info as well as well as a few additional bits of information.

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