In the women’s Russian championship meeting in Zvenigorod HC Astrakhanochka was stronger than HC Zvezda — 32:31.
In the match of first round handball players from Moscow region celebrated their victory in Astrakhan with the same score. Thus, the teams have equal figures for personal meetings, but the team from the Volga region is ahead in total number of scored points.
18 December
Zvezda — Astrakhanochka — 31:32 (15:15) (Klimantseva, Gerasimova — 6 each, Babenko, N.Nikitina, Dyachenko — 5 each; Divak — 10, D.Vasilyeva, Sharkova — 8 each)
Kuban — CSKA — 28:40 (15:17) (Sobkalo, Shavman — 6 each, Deynega — 4; Mikhaylichenko, Skorobogatchenko — 10 each, Murzalieva — 5)
Baltiyskaya zarya — Universitet — 25:33 (11:15) (Sinyavskaya — 11, Posashkova — 5; Avdoshko — 11, Kandakova — 7, Borisova — 6)
Luch — Dinamo-Sinara — 18:31 (7:15) (Krupennikova — 5, Fedorova, Fedosova, Makhatadze — 3 each; Semina — 7, Dolmatova, Bezbabnykh, Dudkina — 4 each)
Rostov-Don — Stavropolye — 39:25 (25:12) (Zelenkova — 12, Statsenko, P.Kuznetsova — 5 each; Seradskaya — 6, Nefedova — 5, Sivovalova — 4)
Tournament standings. 1. CSKA — 38 points (19 matches). 2. Rostov-Don — 32 (19). 3. Astrakhanochka — 27 (17). 4. Lada — 26 (18). 5. Zvezda — 22 (18). 6. Dinamo-Sinara — 19 (17). 7. Kuban — 17 (17). 8. Stavropolye — 16 (19). 9. Universitet — 14 (19). 10. Fenix — 10 (17). 11. AGU-Adyif — 5 (17). 12. Luch — 4 (18). 13. Baltiyskaya zarya — 2 (17).
Photo: Dmitry Marochkin
