U.S. fifth at world juniors

OTTAWA – New Hampshire star James van Riemsdyk scored at 2:49 of overtime to give the United States a 3-2 victory over the Czech Republic on Sunday night in the fifth-place game in the world junior hockey championship.

Ondrej Roman, a veteran of the Spokane Chiefs’ 2008 Memorial Cup championship team, gave the Czechs a 2-1 lead with 9:01 left, but U.S. defenseman Cade Fairchild tied it on a power play with 6:58 to go.

Eric Tangradi also scored for the Americans, coming off a 5-3 quarterfinal loss to Slovakia after going 3-1 in the preliminary round. Josh Unice made 25 saves for the United States.

Zdenek Okal added a goal for the Czech Republic and Tomas Vosvrda made 45 saves.

Four-time defending champion Canada will face Sweden in the championship game tonight. Russia will play Slovakia in the third-place game.