Latvian defender Uvis Jānis Balinskis scored on Friday in the Czech Hockey Extraliga game, helping Litvīnova’s “Verva” team to celebrate the victory. Litvīnova’s team represented by Balinska and Oskars Cibuļskas beat Česke Budejovice’s “Motor” with the result 4: 3 (0: 0, 2: 2, 2: 1).
Balinskis scored in the 12th minute of the second period, when he scored 2: 1 with a shot from the blue line. He spent 22 minutes and eight seconds on the ice in this match, during which he scored five times and scored a positive efficiency factor of +1, but Cibulskis scored 19 minutes and 36 seconds in the statistics columns with one shot and a neutral efficiency.
On Friday, three more Latvian hockey players went on the field, but they did not stand out with performance points. Mlada Boleslav, represented by striker Māris Bičevskas, beat Tršineca’s Ocelārži at home 3: 2 (0: 0, 2: 0, 1: 2), but defender Guntis Galviņš and Ostrava’s Vītkovice Ridera beat 2: 1 (0 : 0, 2: 1, 0: 0) prevailed over Olomouc. In contrast, Brno “Kometa”, represented by defender Ralph Freiberg, acknowledged the superiority of Prague’s “Sparta” 2: 4 (1: 1, 1: 2, 0: 1).
Among the teams represented by Latvians, the highest in the tournament table is “Mlada Boleslav”, which takes the third place in 35 games with 66 points. The “Kometa” unit with 47 points in 34 games is in the ninth position, “Vītkovice Ridera” with 43 points in 34 dues is in the tenth position, and “Verva” is in the 11th place with 41 points in 34 matches. 14 teams play in the Czech extreme this season.
