By George Da Silva – National Teams of Ice Hockey

SKIF and Kunlun became the leaders of the WHL Open Cup.

The Vanke Rays beat the Russian U18 and Chinese national team on consecutive days with a scores of 6-1 & 4-2. Michelle Karvinen notched 2 goals against the Russian youth team while Cassie Betinol scored 2 goals for the Chinese national team against Vanke Rays.

SKIF defeated Agidel by a large score of 6-1 keeping them in first place with 6 points.

Vanke Rays – Russian national team (U-18) 6: 1 (3: 0, 0: 0, 3: 1)

Goals:

1: 0 – Lam (Thyssen), 10:15

2: 0 – Kawa (Wu), 11:40

3: 0 – Karvinen (Kava), 19:52

4: 0 – Costales (Llanes, Mills), 49:55

5: 0 – Kawa (Wong, Nordin) 51:28

5: 1 – Larshina (Kuznetsova), 59:26

6: 1 – Karvinen (Nordin), 59:35

Vanke Rays – China 4: 2 (2: 0, 1: 1, 1: 1)

Goals:

1: 0 – Kava, 17:40

2: 0 – Houston (Belyakova, Wong), 18:17

3: 0 – Wu (Karvinen), 28:45

3: 1 – Betinol (Wong, Ji-Xin), 33:43

3: 2 – Betinol (Byway, Lam) 47:57

4: 2 – Llaness (Nordin), 56:48

Agidel – SKIF 1: 6 (1: 3, 0: 0, 0: 3)

Goals:

0: 1 – Falyakhova (Starovoitova), 5:41

1: 1 – Lutsak-Chupkova (Sosina, Mikaelyan), 11:58

1: 2 – Smolina (Garipova, Falyakhova), 17:13

1: 3 – Bratischeva (Smolina), 19:57

1: 4 – Smolin, 42:42

1: 5 – Prokopenko (Teiralova) 44:11

1: 6 – Bratscheva (Starovoitova, Falyakhova), 46:30

you can check Video and Standings at  WHL Open Cup