In the meeting of the women’s Russian Championship in Rostov-on-Don HC Astrakhanochka beat HC Rostov-Don— 33:32.
The left back of the winners Polina Sharkova demonstrated an excellent play — 15 scored goals! HC Astrakhanochka is only one point behind HC Rostov-Don, which is on the second place.
In other meetings of the game day HC Dinamo-Sinara in away ineffective match beat HC Stavropolye (24:18), and HC Zvezda was devastatingly stronger than HC Luch (38:24).
9 January
Rostov-Don — Astrakhanochka — 32:33 (17:16) (Zelenkova — 8, Sen, Statsenko — 5 each; Sharkova — 15, Dudina — 5, Demina — 4)
Stavropolye — Dinamo-Sinara — 18:24 (10:11) (Sivovalova — 6, Seradskaya, Boloba — 3 each; Starshova — 10, Semina, Vasilyeva, Turusina, Dudkina — 3 each)
Zvezda — Luch — 38:24 (18:14) (Gerasimova — 7, N.Nikitina — 6, Dyachenko — 5; Fedosova, Makhatadze — 6 each, Fedorova, Krupennikova — 4 each)
Lada — Kuban — 26:26 (16:16) (Kirdyasheva — 9, Fomina, V.Nikitina — 4 each; Golub — 11, V.Zhilinskayte — 4, Shavman — 3)
Universitet — AGU-Adyif — 27:20 (14:11) (Kandakova — 7, Avdoshko — 6, Vakhrusheva — 4; Krasnokutskaya, D.Kazikhanova, Dvortsevaya — 3 each)
Fenix — Baltiyskaya zarya — 31:19 (15:12) (Zhou Mengxue — 6, Jin Mengqing — 5; Seliverstova, Pavlova, Sinyavskaya — 4 each)
Tournament standings. 1. CSKA — 40 points (20 matches). 2. Rostov-Don — 32 (20). 3. Astrakhanochka — 31 (19). 4. Lada — 29 (20). 5. Zvezda — 26 (20). 6. Dinamo-Sinara — 21 (19). 7. Kuban — 20 (19). 8. Stavropolye — 16 (20). 9. Universitet — 16 (20). 10. Fenix — 12 (19). 11. AGU-Adyif — 5 (19). 12. Luch — 4 (20). 13. Baltiyskaya zarya — 2 (19).
Photo: Dmitriy Marochkin
