Drupal 7 views view template

Question

in my viewv-view-fields--myView.tpl.php i have styled how i want the output to look like

if(isset($fields['title']) && isset($fields['file'])) { 
    $category = $fields['field_category']->content;
    $file_link = $fields['file']->raw; 
    $title = $fields['title']->content; 

if($category == "2014"){    

    print '<tr><td><a href="'.$file_link.'">'.$title.'</a> </td> </tr>';

} else if($category == "2013") {
    print '<tr><td><a href="'.$file_link.'">'.$title.'</a> </td> </tr>';
}

i can if i want output only one category white my ifs but now to the trouble if i want to output category 2014 in one table and category 2013 i another.

in my views-view--myView.tpl.php i can only do print rows and it picks both, i tried to put the links into a array but it creates a new array of every link so im kinda stuck here

<table class="table table-hover">
    <thead>
        <tr><th>2014</th></tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <?php if ($rows): 
            print $rows;
        ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </tbody>
</table>
  <table class="table table-hover">
    <thead>
        <tr><th>2013</th></tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
   <?php if ($rows): 
            print $rows;
        ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </tbody>
</table>

anyone how got a suggestion?