NoC Sports Desk
Columbia, Missouri’s Comosexuals might want to consider moving to Lexington. After two trips to Lexington this past year for competitive bike polo action, Comosexuals Charlie Hill, Pete Abram, and Nick Jacob have yet to taste defeat on the courts of Coolavin. In the team’s most recent undefeated blitz through the inner-bluegrass, last Sunday’s Spring Polo Invite, they bested a diverse field of nearly 20 squads and more than 60 players to claim the championship hardware.
The double-elimination format began slowly at 10:00 AM on Easter morning as Lexington Bike Polo City Representative Chris Simpson addressed a visibly hungover crowd of polo players over the court speakers. The strong regional flavor of the polo gathering was reflected in the fact that the top seven finishing teams hailed from seven different cities.
Lexington teams may have felt the exhaustion of hosting the weekend gathering—in general they appeared battered and, at least in the case of Tiff Morrow, visibly bruised. Of all the Lexington squads, only Your Team (Simpson, Brad Flowers, and Nick Redbeard) made it to the Final Seven (Kentucky cousin of the Final Four), finishing in seventh place.
Courtside pandemonium temporarily broke out when City Rep Simpson announced that teams would be forced to engage in partner-swapping. Essentially, squads playing each other would be forced to trade one player from each team for the remainder of the tournament, effectively jumbling up teams and cities. Once the uproar subsided, the Comosexuals bagged their second Lexington crown–and in the process proving equally adept doing it both straight and with partner swapping.
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