White Caps goes to Budapest

03 Oct 2011 | Davide Tuniz

Belgian team won the Continental Cup group in Ankara.

After eight years of absence, a Belgian team returns to Continental Cup and for the first ever time advances to second round.

Champion White Caps Turnhout won 5-2 the decisive game in Ankara, Turkey, against Estonian Kalev Valk Tartu. In a devastating first period the Belgian team scored five unanswered goals and controlled the Estonian reaction in the two remaining periods. Kalev was able to score just two goals, one in the central period and other in the last twenty minutes but at no moment there was a real threat for White Caps. Latvian veteran Valerijs Filimonovs and American defender Ryan Warsofsky were the stars of the night with two goals each.

Now White Caps will return to the ice in Budapest, from October 21 to 23, to face Dutch HYS The Hague, Spanish CH Jaca and the host Dunaujvarosi Acelbikak.

White Caps' Tyler O'Brien and Marek Ziarny were awarded best goalie and best forward, while Kalev Valk's Anatoli Jakovlev grabbed the best defender award.

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