Pergine beat Pustertal Junior 4:3 in the Italian Hockey League on Friday, September 26th. The result gives the visitors their first point of the season after a defeat in their opening game. Pustertal Junior remain winless at home, a familiar pattern from their 0:8 loss to Caldaro last week.
Both sides entered the match with identical records — one game played, one loss, zero points each. To be fair, the table tells only half the story. The other half is that Pergine had already tasted defeat against Fassa, 3:6, before this fixture.
What matters here is the shift in momentum. Pergine went from losing streak to finding something at the other end. Pustertal Junior, meanwhile, held firm for three periods but let the late stages slip. Cup football has its own rules, and so does hockey: one goal difference separates two teams on equal footing.
The standings remain unchanged in their broadest strokes — both clubs still sit in the lower half after one match each. But the gap between them and the teams above is now measured in a single point rather than none.
