Closing a dominating season, League champion Bipolo Vitoria captured Copa del Rey (Spanish National Cup) - the first ever in club history - last weekend by beating 4-1 CG Puigcerdà in the final, played in Barcelona in a repeat of recent League final series.
(25 Mar 2014)
Bipolo Vitoria/Gasteiz confirms its dominion over the Spanish hockey scene winning the second consecutive title after beating 5-2 in playoffs finals game #4 CG Puigcerdà. With just 5 games lost in last two regular seasons and a 4-lines roster (not common in Spain where usually teams play with two lines), Bipolo swept opponents allowing Puigcerdà a victory in the series. Catalan team submitted a protest after the first two games of finals alleging three Bipolo imports - Evan Mackintosh, Vitaly Kulikov and Dmitry Gnitko - were alligned unevenly, but Federation rejected the requestNow Bipolo can seal another perfect season grabbing also Copa del Rey that will be played in Barcelona next week, with Bipolo as favourite
(17 Mar 2014)
Champion Bipolo Vitoria finished ahead the regular season of Spanish League with a 18-2-0 record and 54 points, 12 more then runner-up Puigcerdà.
Bipolo - Jaca and Puigcerdà - Txuri Urdin will be the playoffs semifinals pairs.
Puigcerdà Slovak Jan Simko is the top scorer with 56 points (37+19)
(16 Feb 2014)
Tallinn Viiking Sport keeps perfect record in Continental Cup First Round by beating 5-2 (2-1,3-1,0-0) and eliminating Spanish Bipolo Vitoria. Tonight CSKA Sofia and Partizan close the second day of competition
(28 Sep 2013)
CSKA Sofia earned first points in Continental Cup Group A playing in Beograd by winning 4-1 (2-1,2-0,0-0) Spanish champion Bipolo Vitoria. Tonight host Partizan Beograd will face Estonian Vikiing Tallinn
(27 Sep 2013)
After the 9-1 victory in first leg final, it was just a proforma for Escor Bakh Vitoria to take home the Spanish Supercopa, the new opening season trophy raffling between League winner and Copa del Rey holder.
In front of its fans, Escor Bakh won against CH Jaca 6-2 (2-2,2-0,2-0)
1-0 Juan Brabo (David Balazs, Jakub Bauer) 0:46
1-1 Jose Antonio Biec (Desiderio Perez, Charles Strauss) 02:17
1-2 Jose Antonio Biec (Charles Strauss, Guillermo Betran)PP 08:10
2-2 Jakub Bauer (David Balazs, Miroslav Oravec)PP 09:23
3-2 Tommy Mannerma (Juan Muñoz, Michael Klepac)SH 29:18
4-2 David Balazs (Jakub Bauer, Alejandro Hernandez)PP 35:36
5-2 Juan Muñoz (Miroslav Oravec, Tommy Mannerma) 44:54
6-2 Miroslav Oravec (Jakub Bauer, David Balazs)PP 51:44
SOG: 44-25 PIM: 6x2 - 9x2+1x10(Ubieto) Att: 342
(15 Sep 2013)
The first edition of Supercopa - the challenge between league champion and Copa del Rey winner - is on the way to Vitoria after the first leg: Escor Bakh hammered Jaca 9-1 and will now defend this advantage at home next Saturday
CH Jaca - Escor Bakh Vitoria 1-9 (0-1,0-5,1-3)
0-1 Txetxu Gavilanes (David Balazs, Jakub Bauer) 02:55
0-2 Miroslav Oravec (David Balazs) 20:52
0-3 Evan Mackintosh (Juan Muñoz) 28:10
0-4 Miroslav Oravec (Juan Brabo, David Balazs) 29:45
0-5 Juan Brabo (Jakub Bauer, Michael Klepac) 33:17
0-6 Adrian Sosa (Evan Mackintosh) 38:00
0-7 David Balazs (Vitaly Kulikov) 41:11
0-8 Tommy Mannerma (Eneko Lopez, Juha Saikko) 49:45
0-9 Juha Saikko (Eneko Lopez) 51:26
1-9 Charles Strauss (Pablo Pantoja) 53:50
PIM: 22-14 SOG: 26-48 Att: 750
(08 Sep 2013)
CH Jaca win its third consecutive Copa del Rey beating 9-5 league champion Bipolo Vitoria in the final played in Puigcerdà. American forward Charles Strauss was the star of the game with 3 goals and 3 assists
(01 Apr 2013)
By beating 7-6 CG Puigcerdà in playoffs finals game #3, Bipolo Vitoria closed the series 3-0 and wins Spanish League for the first time. Puigcerdà Slovak forward Jan Simko, suspended in third game, was the season top scorer
Bipolo also won regular season and will play against Txuri Urdin for Copa del Rey semifinals on March 23 while Puigcerdà will face former champion CH Jaca
(03 Mar 2013)
Regular season winner Bipolo Vitoria and CG Puigcerdà are the finalists for Spanish League. Both teams needed just two games to advance to final: Vitoria eliminated Txuri Urdin San Sebastian, while Puigcerdà knocked off reigning champion CH Jaca.
Finals are best-of-five and will start on February 16
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(03 Feb 2013)