“Daugavpils Ledus Sporta Skola”/”Dinaburga” (DLSS/”Dinaburga”) suffered their second defeat in two days in the “Optibet” Hockey League (OHL) on Sunday.
Daugavpils lost at home to Elektrēni “Energija” with the score 3:4 (1:2, 2:1, 0:1).
After nine minutes played, Ivo Kharitonovs put the hosts ahead and, later in the period, Klimentijs Liskas scored twice for the visitors.
On the other hand, at the beginning of the second third, Maksims Pumpiņš leveled the score and in the 32nd minute Šarūns Baltūns scored an opening goal for the Daugavpils team. With just over five minutes left in the third period, the score was leveled again when Karolis Krasilnikovs sent the puck into the Daugavpils goal.
In the last period, in the 46th minute, Danils Tsarkovskis scored the winning goal for the “Energija” team. Although the Daugavpils team had the majority at the end of the match, no more goals were scored.
The day before, Daugavpils lost to the same Lithuanian team with a score of 4:8 (2:1, 0:6, 2:1).
“Mogo”/LSPA team leads the table with 48 points in 25 matches, “Zemgale”/LLU team has 36 points in 21 matches and Riga “Dinamo” has 33 points in 24 matches. Hockey school “Rīga” scored 23 points in 24 matches, “Prism” from Riga scored 22 points in 22 duels, while “Energija” from Elektrēnu scored 21 points in 23 matches and “Hockey Punks” from Vilnius collected 17 points in the same games . Kaunas “City” follows with 17 points from 21 games, while “Daugavpils Ledus Sporta Skola”/”Dinaburga” is last with two points from 25 games.
This season, nine teams play in the league: six from Latvia and three from Lithuania.
In the 2021/2022 season, Jelgava “Zemgale”/LLU won their first Latvian championship title, beating the previous champion “Olimp”/”Venta 2002” in the series with 4-0.
