Allied Bank and Barry's carved out hard-fought victories in the Samba Bank Lahore Open Polo Championship 2017 matches played here at the Lahore Polo Club (LPC) ground on Thursday. In the first match of the day, Allied Bank defeated Diamond Paints by 7-5. Mumtaz Abbas Niazi slammed in three goals from the winning side while Raja Arslan Najeeb and Hamza Mawaz Khan, who played in place of Saqib Khan Khakwani who couldn't play the match due to illness, scored two goals apiece.
From the losing side, Eulogio Celestino hammered a hat-trick while Ahmad Khan and Mir Huzaifa Ahmad hit one goal apiece.
In other match, Barry' defeated Green Orchard/Rijas by 5-4 in the sudden death chukker to win the second encounter of the day. Hernan Pieres was top scorer from the winning side with three goals while Raja Samiullah and Raja Mikael Sami scored one goal each. From the losing side, Geoffredo and Ahmed Zubair Butt banged in a brace each, but their efforts couldn't bear fruit for their team, which lost the match with a narrow margin of 5-4.