Fleurpoloxdutch
21st November 2008, 10:50 PM
Sunday 14th September - Press release
This weekend were the 3rd Dutch Open Polocrosse Championships in Exloerveen. It was a fierce competition with the best Dutch, German and French teams.
Saturday the preliminaries were held in 3 categories A, B and C. The C-categorie was won by Holland C. They ended just above the very good playing French Juniors and a Mix Team of players from Germany, Belgium and Holland.
In the B-category the Dutch B2-team became second behind the French Junior B team. The other Dutch B-team won only their last game against Stelingen and became fourth in the B-poule.
But the most important games were in A-category. The Dutch team (Jochem Elsinga, Florien Luitse and Fleur Bartels) had beaten Kananohe from Germany (winner Dutch Open 2007) on Saturday. On Sunday the match against the French was won by 7-4.
And so Holland won the Dutch Open Polocrosse Tournament 2008.
Best male no. 1: Andreas Rieger (Germany)
Best male no. 2: Jochem Elsinga (Holland)
Best male no. 3: Bruno Wallet (France)
Best female no. 1: Alexandra Deurinck (France)
Best female no. 2: Joanne Szezesny (France)
Best female no. 3: Jessica Deurinck (France)
Best international debutant: Mathilde Bizet (France)
Best horse-rider combination: Brigitte van de Hoef with Dribbel (Holland)
Best horse: Cimarron (owner Fleur Bartels)
check http://www.polocrosse.nl/newsite/toernooi_photos.htm for the photo's!
This weekend were the 3rd Dutch Open Polocrosse Championships in Exloerveen. It was a fierce competition with the best Dutch, German and French teams.
Saturday the preliminaries were held in 3 categories A, B and C. The C-categorie was won by Holland C. They ended just above the very good playing French Juniors and a Mix Team of players from Germany, Belgium and Holland.
In the B-category the Dutch B2-team became second behind the French Junior B team. The other Dutch B-team won only their last game against Stelingen and became fourth in the B-poule.
But the most important games were in A-category. The Dutch team (Jochem Elsinga, Florien Luitse and Fleur Bartels) had beaten Kananohe from Germany (winner Dutch Open 2007) on Saturday. On Sunday the match against the French was won by 7-4.
And so Holland won the Dutch Open Polocrosse Tournament 2008.
Best male no. 1: Andreas Rieger (Germany)
Best male no. 2: Jochem Elsinga (Holland)
Best male no. 3: Bruno Wallet (France)
Best female no. 1: Alexandra Deurinck (France)
Best female no. 2: Joanne Szezesny (France)
Best female no. 3: Jessica Deurinck (France)
Best international debutant: Mathilde Bizet (France)
Best horse-rider combination: Brigitte van de Hoef with Dribbel (Holland)
Best horse: Cimarron (owner Fleur Bartels)
check http://www.polocrosse.nl/newsite/toernooi_photos.htm for the photo's!