The Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Lucas Pettersson and Eddie Genborg each scored twice and Sweden beat the United States 6-3 on Wednesday night in the world junior hockey championship to complete group play unbeaten. Casper Juustovaara opened the scoring in the first period on a deflect ion, and the Swedes led 5-1 in the second period in the Group A finale. Ivar Stenberg scored in the third, and Love Harenstam made 28 saves. “We knew it would be hard game,” Swedish forward Milton Gastrin said. “They were better at the start, but we kept it together and took over a bit in the second and scored some goals. We played like a team the whole way, and I think we did that better than they did, which is probably why we won.” Chase Reid, Will Zellers and Teddy Stiga scored for the United States, and Brady Knowling stopped 23 shots in his tournament debut. He was subbed out for Nick Kempf for the third period after allowing five goals. The Americans lost for the first time in four games in the tournament. The U.S. was minus injured players Cole Hutson and Max Laplante. “They’re a pretty good team and we didn’t play our best,” Reid said. “We’ll see them again, and we’ll get them back. I feel like we can play the same way, but we didn’t bring our best game tonight. We took a lot of undisciplined penalties that we didn’t need to take, but it’s a learning lesson and we’ll come back stronger.” Colorado College player Wilson Bjorck made his debut for Sweden in Monday’s win over Germany. His brother Viggo Bjorck has been playing well and had two assists vs. USA. Sweden will face Latvia in the Friday quarterfinals, while the second-place Americans awaited the result of the Group B finale between Canada and Finland. Earlier, Switzerland beat Slovakia 3-2 to finish third in Group A, and Chechia topped Latvia 4-2 in Group B for its third straight win since an opening loss to Canada. ...read more read less