Terrassa Are Perfect, Polo End Tenis’ Run: Spain’s División de Honor, Jornada 5 Results

Five games, five wins, and the winner came from a penalty stroke with less than two minutes left. CD Terrassa aren’t just top of the Liga IATI, they’re perfect, and Sunday’s round in Spain kept the pressure on everyone chasing them.

Terrassa 2-1 Club de Campo: a stroke at the death

This was Saturday’s top game and it played out like one. Club de Campo, the Madrid giants, struck first, Ignacio Abajo scoring in the second quarter. Mario Mena equalised three minutes later, and then nothing gave for nearly half an hour.

1-1, deep into the final minutes, and Terrassa won a stroke. Enric Miralles converted it with under two minutes on the clock. 2-1, fifteen points from fifteen, and the rest of the league has a problem: Terrassa have now beaten the strongest side in Spain while still finding a way on a day they had to come from behind.

Tenis 0-3 Polo: the other unbeaten run ends

RS Tenis started the day sharing the lead. They finished it second, beaten at home by RC Polo in Santander.

Enrique Fanlo opened the scoring in the first quarter and the 0-1 held until late. Guillermo Fortuño doubled it in the 50th minute and Bruno Ávila closed it out from a penalty corner in the final seconds. Polo climb to fourth with nine points from four games and a match in hand on most. Tenis stay on twelve and give up top spot.

Sunday’s other games: Egara edge it, Atlètic cruise, Barça finally win

Club Egara beat Sanse Complutense 2-1 at the Pla del Bon Aire, and it swung on corners and strokes. Iñaki Fernández put Egara ahead from a stroke in the first quarter, Pablo Román levelled in the second, and Juan Ignacio Zirpel won it with a penalty corner in the third. Egara jump above Complutense in the table.

Atlètic Terrassa had their game in Gran Canaria done by half-time. Ignacio Nardolillo opened it, Pau Gestí scored twice from penalty corners in the second quarter for 0-3, and Tyler Tomsett’s late reply for UD Taburiente was all the islanders managed. 1-3.

And at the bottom, somebody finally won. FC Barcelona beat Sardinero 1-0 in Santander, Pepe Morán scoring with under five minutes left after three goalless quarters. It’s Barça’s first win of the season, it lifts them off last place into tenth with three points, and it leaves Sardinero as the only side in the league still on zero.

Saturday’s score that set the weekend up

The biggest win of the jornada came on Saturday. Junior FC won 7-2 at CH Carpesa, scoring five in the first half alone: Aleix Bozal and Marc Serrahima in the first quarter, Nicolau Mustarós twice and Anton Serrahima in the second. Anton Serrahima completed his double after the break and Ferran Muñoz added the seventh. Xavier Guanter and Roberto Bayarri replied for Carpesa. Junior sit third.

Jornada 5 scores: CD Terrassa 2-1 Club de Campo; RS Tenis 0-3 RC Polo; Club Egara 2-1 Sanse Complutense; UD Taburiente 1-3 Atlètic Terrassa; Sardinero HC 0-1 FC Barcelona; CH Carpesa 2-7 Junior FC.