Sweden2 – Finland 7:3 (end) | Czech Republic – Latvia 7:4 (end) | USA – Canada2 2:1 (end)
Switzerland – Denmark 2:1 (end)
final
Czech Republic
7:4 (2:1, 4:1, 1:2)
Latvia
Friday 20.04.2012, 15:00 • Arena Znojmo • U18 World Championship
     
    Best players:
    LAT: Edmunds Augstkalns
    CZE: Dominik Simon (17:03:47)
     
    Important win for home team. They deserve it and with this win, Czechs made sure that they will play the A-divison of World Championship U18 next year.
     
    Shots on goal in the third period:
    CZE: 9, LAT: 13.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:37
    Latvians are behind their net.
     
    58:52
    Goal for Team Czech Republic!
    Another goal scored by DOMINIK SIMON. Assisted by: Jakub Vrana and Libor Sulak.
     
    57:29
    And Rosinskins (LAT) is penaltied. 2 minutes for slashing and 10 minutes for abuse of referee.
     
    57:20
    Czech defend briantely now.
     
    56:39
    Great save by Polivka!
     
    55:22
    And another one.
     
    55:08
    Save by Punnenovs.
     
    53:57
    Augstkalns (LAT) – 2 minutes for tripping.
     
    52:39
    Czech icing.
     
    51:47
    Good Punnenovs' save on shot by Simon.
     
    51:18
    And now icing by Czech team.
     
    51:04
    Two faceoffs in front of Polivka in the short time.
     
    50:20
    Great shot by Vojtech Tomecek from the left circle saved by Punnenovs.
     
    48:07
    Both teams on the move.
     
    47:15
    Home team timeout.
     
    47:15
    Goal for Team Latvia!
    EDGARS KULDA got to the attacking zone via left side and shot well under the bar. Assisted by: Georgs Golovkovs.
    Commentary by

    Vladimír Koča

    CZ@vkoca

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 10. Zadrazil (Simon, Sidlik), 11. Prochazka (Volek), 23. Vrana (Simon, Soumelidis), 25. Tomecek (Kostalek, Machac), 32. Vrana (Simon, Sulak), 33. Simon (Vrana, Sulak), 59. Simon (Vrana, Sulak) - 10. Kalvitis (Jevpalovs, Blugers), 26. Jalisejevs (Bukarts), 43. Lipsbergs (Kalvitis), 48. Kulda (Golovkovs)

    Czech Republic: Polivka (Hrachovina) – Sidlik (C), Sulak, Kostalek, Houfek, Behal, Stencel, Knot – Machac, Volek, Tomecek – Slovacek, Chlapik, Hudecek – Vrana, Soumelidis, Simon – Matejicek, Zadrazil, Prochazka – Sedlacek.
    Latvia: Merzlikins (25. Punnenovs) – Skuratovs, Augstkalns, Rosinskis, Kalvitis, Freimanis, Zemitis, Gelazis, Makarovs – Ozolins, Golovkovs, Kulda – Lavrovs, Jevpalovs (C), Blugers – Kondrats, Sevcenko, Lipsbergs – Bukarts, Jelisejevs, Riekstins.
    Referees: Koch (SUI), Salonen (FIN) – Ponomarjow (GER), Vikman (FIN)