Floorball ball Photo: “Pixabay”
The “Ķekavas Bulldogs” / NND team won the second game of the “Elvi floorball league” semi-final on Sunday, earning the right to meet Kocēni “Rubeni” in the final. “Ķekavas Bulldogs” / NND guests won “Ķekavu” with 3: 0 (0: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0). The day before, the Ķekavas Bulldogs / NND won 6: 3. The brightest star of Sunday’s game was the goalkeeper Jana Filipsone, who repulsed all 33 balls thrown by the opponents. Anna Mūrniece forged the victory with a goal and an effective pass.
In the final “Ķekavas Bulldogs” / NND will meet with the winner of the regular tournament “Rubeni”, who on Sunday with guests 8: 1 (3: 0, 0: 0, 5: 1) destroyed Kocēni “Rubene-1”. On Saturday, “Rubene” won with 8: 3. Laura Gaugere, two goals for Simona Grāpēna, and Paula Matisone and Danute Tinkuse added 1 + 1. The only “Rubene-1” goal was scored by Lība Daija Mikova. “Rubene-1” and “Ķekava” teams will fight for bronze.
Meanwhile, the men’s tournament hosted the last regular tournament games on Sunday. Champion “Lielvārde” / “FatPipe” at home with 5:10 (1: 3, 2: 3, 2: 4) gave in to Kocēni “Rubene”. Reinis Mirkšs scored in the Kocēni team with a goal and three passes, Atis Stepāns 2 + 1, but Kristers Babris and Dāvis Zēmelis scored less for one goal. In the ranks of Lielvārde club, Juris Sandis Jēgers earned a “hat-trick” and a pass. “Rubene” will meet “Valmiera” in the quarterfinals of the playoffs, but Lielvārde floorball players will meet “Apelsīns” / “Oxdog Ulbroka”.
Elsewhere, “Bauska” gave way to “Kekava” with 3: 5 (1: 0, 2: 3, 0: 2). Klāvs Jansons has a goal and two assists in the Ķekava team, but Markuss Januševskis earned 0 + 2. Gates for Valdis Vāvers, Feliksas Žieds and Krister Ķūrēns-Repšis in Bauska club. “Bauska” will meet with Talsi NSS / “Krauzers” in the quarterfinals.
At the home of the winner of the regular tournament Cēsis “Lekrings” with “7: 3 (1: 0, 3: 2, 3: 1)” Irlava “/” Avant “won. Four goals for Joren Malkava, Emils Dzalbs 1 + 2, but two goals were scored by Krišs Treimanis. “Hat-trick” for Kristaps Kozlovskis on the other side of the field. The two teams will also meet in the first round or quarterfinals of the playoffs.
Finally, “Valmiera” gave up “Orange” / “Oxdog Ulbroka” with 6: 8 (0: 2, 4: 3, 2: 3) in their field. Atis Blinds scored two goals in favor of the winners and scored the same number of times, Walter Lapiņš 1 + 2, but Daniels Jānis Anis scored two “goals”. In Valmiera unit Pāvels Semeņovs was the most productive with 2 + 1.
“Lekrings” won the first place in the regular tournament with 57 points in 22 games. In second place with 48 points is “Apelsīns” / “Oxdog Ulbroka”, “Valmiera” follows with 45 points, Talsi NSS / “Krauzers” is four points less, but “Ķekava” finishes the best five with 36 points. “Rubene” has the same number of points, the champion team from Lielvārde scored 35 points, “Irlava” / “Avant” follows with 31 points, the owner of the ninth place Stalbe “Pārgauja” has 29 points, but the tenth with 26 points is Liepāja “Kurši” unit. The last two places with ten and two points were taken by “Bauska” and RTU / “Rockets”, respectively.
It is expected that after the regular championship “play-off” the first round or quarterfinals will be up to two victories of one team, but later in the final four-tournament the champions will be determined, which is planned to be done by Midsummer. It is also planned that the final this season will not take place in “Arena Riga”, but in one of the Olympic centers in the regions. There are 12 teams playing in the men’s tournament this season, and eight teams in the women’s tournament.
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