Hondarribia wins in the estuary and is the new leader

The Bilbao estuary dressed in its best clothes to receive the Eusko Label Liga for the first time this season and the protagonists did not disappoint. The large audience that gathered on both sides enjoyed a show of height in the three batches and emotion in abundance until the end. And it is that, the winner of the Ikurriña de Sestao was decided by a sigh. This time the coin fell heads for Hondarribia in the heads-up with Urdaibai who was the one who led the singing voice for many bars of the round of honor but who finally got the honey on his lips.

The ‘Ama Guadalupekoa’, in addition, is the new leader of the competition, tied on points with Donostiarra, who could only be third, far from the leading pair -17 seconds-. The third position in the table is for the ‘Bou Bizkaia’ with four points, while Orio loses eight with respect to the first of the general. The pulse between these four giants promised, but the conditioning factors of the capricious estuary meant that everything remained in a hand in hand between frontiersmen and ‘txos’. The difference between the two, located port-starboard on lanes two and three, never exceeded the second. In fact, when passing under the Hanging Bridge for the last time, the GPS indicated that both boats were on par. The emotion grew at times among the delegates in the gallery and it was not for less. Finally, it was those led by Mikel Orbañanos who took the victory by seventy hundredths. A blink.

The same thing happened in the second series of the day in which Zierbena beat Kaiku by two hundredths after another one-on-one between the two with Getaria as third in discord. With regard to the inaugural race, Cabo Cruz rearmed -the Galicians needed a good result like breathing- with an undeniable victory over a Santurtzi that continues to stock up to escape as much as possible from the dangerous zone of the queue. Sotera’ will row tomorrow (12:13 p.m.) at home with the hope of taking another step in that war.