Bees Sign Ralfs Circenis
Credit Bees:
The TSI World Berkshire Bees announced that forward, Ralfs Circenis, has signed for the Bees for the remainder of the 2024/2025 season.
Latvian born Ralfs, had his junior development in the UK, playing in the Solent, Guildford and Basingstoke systems. He made his senior debut in NIHL 1 with the Solent & Gosport Devils in 2013/2014 and went on to play full time with the south coast outfit in 2014/2015 where he also made 2 appearances in the EPIHL with the Basingstoke Bison.
Ralfs then headed to Canada at the beginning of the 2015/2016 season and made 136 appearances over 3 years in the GMHL. He scored 158 points during his time in Canada, scoring 72 times and assisting on 86 occasions.
2019 saw him return back to the UK and the Solent Devils where he tallied 59 points in 23 games and added a futher 18 from 11 games the following season before heading to Sweden and Lindefallets SK.
The Peterborough Phantoms snapped him up ahead of the 2022/2023 NIHL National season where he averaged just under a point per game with 22 goals and 33 assists giving him 55 points in 58 appearances.
Ralfs moved west to the Bristol Pitbulls the following season; scoring 11 points (4G 7A) in 15 games before heading back to the Phantoms where he added a further 24 points to take his total to 35 (14G 21A) in 45 games.