{"id":7607,"date":"2022-08-15T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T01:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/latvia-beats-czechs-to-reach-world-junior-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T01:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T01:18:27","slug":"latvia-beats-czechs-to-reach-world-junior-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7607","title":{"rendered":"Latvia beats Czechs to reach world junior quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) &#8211; Ralfs Bergmanis had a hat trick and Latvia beat the Czech Republic 5-2 on Sunday to secure a quarterfinal spot at the world junior championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">Latvia (1-2-1) finished third in Group A, one place ahead of the Czech Republic (1-2-1).  Latvia entered the event when Russia and Belarus were kicked out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">Earlier, Kasper Simontaival had two goals and an assist in Finland&#8217;s 9-3 win over Slovakia in Group A. Joel Maatta also scored twice for Finland (2-1).  Slovakia finished 0-3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">The U.S. faced Sweden at the top of Pool B at the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-canada-hockey-czech-republic-2ffd7625ec8c86867d9b284ea307dd03\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) &#8211; Ralfs Bergmanis had a hat trick and Latvia beat the Czech Republic 5-2 on Sunday to secure a quarterfinal spot at the world junior championships. Latvia (1-2-1) finished third in Group A, one place ahead of the Czech Republic (1-2-1). Latvia entered the event when Russia and Belarus were kicked out. Earlier, Kasper Simontaival had two goals and an assist in Finland&#8217;s 9-3 win over Slovakia in Group A. Joel Maatta also scored twice for Finland (2-1). Slovakia finished 0-3-1. The U.S. faced Sweden at the top of Pool B at the end of the game&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}