Italy, Ukraine and Lithuania all ran up two wins from two on day one of the Jønk EuroHockey Indoor Championship II-B as Oslo played host to its first event of this magnitude.

Lithuania started off in style with an 8-2 success against Greece based around five first half goals. Greece had taken the lead through Cedwyn Hochhauser but the goalscoring machine Povilas Sinkevičius fired things the Lithuanian way with four goals.

Italy eased by the challenge of Norway 21-1 in game two, six of them coming from Marcello Succi and a further four from Alessandro Muzzioli.

Ukraine opened their account with a 6-1 win over Sweden – returning after a long absence – with the second half proving critical. Dmytro Luppa and Jan-Olof Rydin shared first half goals for 1-1 but the Ukraine team pulled away after half-time with Vitalii Shevchuk scoring twice.

For phase two of the fixtures, Italy again impressed with three goals in the first eight minutes en route to a 5-1 win against Greece.

Ukraine got their second win with a 13-3 win over hosts Norway, scoring four penalty strokes along the way. Oleksandr Solomianyi got two of them out of his total of four goals.

Lithuania then closed out the day with a lively 9-5 win over Sweden with Sinkevičius once again scoring four. They built a 5-1 lead before the Swedes raced back to reduce the score to 5-4 in the 18^th minute.

But the second half belonged to Lithuania as they pulled away to move up to six points.

Friday results

Teams	Title	Scoreline
LTU – GRE	Pool A	8 – 2
ITA – NOR	Pool A	21 – 1
UKR – SWE	Pool A	6 – 1
ITA – GRE	Pool A	5 – 1
UKR – NOR	Pool A	13 – 3
SWE – LTU	Pool A	5 – 9

Day one standings

Rank	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Goal Diff	Pts
1	Italy	2	2	0	0	24	6
2	Ukraine	2	2	0	0	15	6
3	Lithuania	2	2	0	0	10	6
4	Sweden	2	0	0	2	-9	0
5	Greece	2	0	0	2	-10	0
6	Norway	2	0	0	2	-30	0

Saturday schedule

Time	Teams	Title
10:00	SWE – ITA	Pool A
11:30	LTU – UKR	Pool A
13:00	GRE – NOR	Pool A
16:00	ITA – UKR	Pool A
17:30	GRE – SWE	Pool A
19:00	NOR – LTU	Pool A