Baltic XL-Livonia Reach Baltic Rugby TOP League Final for Third Time
Latvian rugby club Baltic XL-Livonia beat Baltrex-Šiauliai 31-16 at home in the Baltic TOP League semifinal, reaching the final for the third time in its history.
Baltic XL-Livonia, the Latvian rugby club and current Baltic and Latvian champion, won its semifinal of the Baltic TOP League on Saturday, 10 October. The league is a regional rugby competition in which Baltic clubs compete for the title. Playing at home in Upesciems, Latvia, Livonia defeated Baltrex-Šiauliai 31-16.
The result sends Livonia into the Baltic TOP League final for the third time in the club's history, where it will play for the overall title.
A tense contest
The match was nervous and full of tension. The score at half-time was 8-13, but Livonia improved in the second half and finished the game with a 31-16 win.
Winning streak
The semifinal victory extends a run of wins that has now lasted two years for the club. The result and the achievement were reported by Ivars Bācis, a representative of RK Livonia, the rugby club.
