Release from 04.12.2025

Away wins for Ritten and Kitzbühel

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Two games were played in the Alps Hockey League on Thursday, and in both cases the away teams came out on top. While the Rittner Buam SkyAlps celebrated a 4–1 derby victory at HC Gherdeina valgardena.it, the Adler Stadtwerke Kitzbühel secured a 5–4 win at HC Meran/o Pircher.

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This meant that the third seasonal derby also went to Ritten. After their 5–1 and 5–2 home wins, they followed up with a convincing 4–1 away victory in Gherdeina. Brett Welychka put the visitors ahead in the eighth minute, and Diego Cuglietta doubled the lead to 2–0 in the 28th minute. The center also sealed the final 4–1 score in the 56th minute. Fourteen minutes before the end, Gherdeina managed to pull one back, giving the home fans renewed hope, but less than five minutes later Jacob Crespi restored the two-goal lead. In the end, it was the ninth win of the season for the team in seventh place, while eleventh-placed Gherdeina suffered their thirteenth defeat of the campaign – their eighth in the last ten games.

In the second game of the day, Kitzbühel narrowly prevailed 5–4 in Merano. In the clash of the two “Eagle clubs,” it was the second win of the season for the Tirol side, with Matic Podlipnik being the decisive player. The defenseman scored the 4–4 equaliser with just under 15 minutes to go and netted the 5–4 game-winner eight minutes before the end. They were his sixth and seventh goals of the season, as well as his second brace. The new third-placed team not only had to come back from a 4–3 deficit, but had also trailed 1–0 early on. By the 31st minute, however, Kitzbühel had turned the game around to lead 3–2, before Meran regained momentum and struck twice within three and a half minutes to make it 4–3. But the team in twelfth place could not hold on to their lead and ultimately suffered their seventh consecutive defeat.

Alps Hockey League:
Thu, 04.12.2025:
HC Gherdeina valgardena.it – Rittner Buam SkyAlps 1:4 (0:1, 0:1, 1:2)
Referees: MOSCHEN, PIRAS, Callovini, Strimitzer
Goal GHE: 1:2 Kasslatter H. (46.)
Goals RIT: 0:1 Welychka B. (8.), 0:2 Cuglietta D. (28.), 1:3 Crespi J. (51./PP1), 1:4 Cuglietta D. (56./PP1)

HC Meran/o Pircher – Adler Stadtwerke Kitzbühel 4:5 (1:1, 3:2, 0:2)
Referees: UNTERWEGER, VIRTA, Fleischmann, Wendner
Goals HCM: 1:0 Sherbinin B. (5.), 2:2 Tomasini P. (29.), 3:3 Cruseman F. (32./PP1), 4:3 Traversa T. (36.)
Goals KEC: 1:1 Maxa A. (12.), 1:2 Crnikic M. (21.), 2:3 Krainz C. (31.), 4:4 Podlipnik M. (46.), 4:5 Podlipnik M. (53.)

Copyright: Max Pattis