JACA, Spain – CH Jaca won the Spanish championship on Sunday after beating CG Puigcerdà in four games in the best-of-five final.

Jaca finished the regular season in second place after losing both games against Puigcerdà and it looked like the Pyrenees rival would win the playoffs as well – until Jaca turned things around.

Jaca beat Txuri Urdin with three straight wins in the semi-finals while Puigcerdà defeated FC Barcelona 3-1 in the other series.

Puigcerdà began the series with two home games, beating their rival 5-2 in the first game, but losing 4-3 in the second.

Tomas Pokrivcak and Peter Kotlaric gave Puigcerdà a 2-0 lead in the first period before Jaca turned the game with three second-period markers.

The middle stanza of the second game was also the turning point of the series. In front of 1,500 spectators in the remaining games in Jaca, the home team sent Puigcerdà back with 8-2 and 10-3 victories.

The team just needed 49 shots to score the 18 goals in their two home games last weekend, many of them on the power play. Canadian forwards Marc-André Tourigny and Jeff Clarke had four goals each; Jon Martín and Adrián Betrán had three apiece.

Jaca captain José Antonio Biec was handed the trophy from the Spanish Ice Sports Federation’s technical director Karlos Gordovil on Sunday.

For Jaca it’s the ninth Spanish title, but the first since 2005 and the first in their new arena Pabellón de Hielo that was opened for the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival.