In the women's Russian championship meeting in Moscow the leading club CSKA proved to be stronger than the Chinese Fenix — 33:24. All the announced players of the capital club scored goals.
In the meeting of closing the tournament standings teams HC Luch won away victory over HC Baltiyskaya zarya — 37:23. As part of the Moscow team Snezhana Makhnyeva had her debut match and scored 3 goals. The victory allowed HC Luch to get ahead of HC AGU-Adyif and move up one line.
16 January
Baltiyskaya zarya — Luch — 23:37 (14:19) (A.D.Seliverstova — 8, Posashkova — 4; Krupennikova — 8, Mochalova, Chernyaeva — 4 each)
CSKA — Fenix — 33:24 (15:13) (Mikhaylichenko, Skorobogatchenko — 5 each, Shamanovskaya, Kulak — 4 each; Zhang Haixia, Liu Chan, Zhou Mengxue — 4 each)
Kuban — Rostov-Don — 26:31 (18:14) (Golub, Savinova, Sobkalo, V.Zhilinskayte, Levchina — 4 each; Tazhenova — 9, Managarova — 6, Sen, Bobrovnikova — 4 each)
Dinamo-Sinara — Universitet — 24:24 (14:14) (Dolmatova — 6, Semina, Starshova, Vasilyeva — 5 each; Beresneva, Kandakova — 6 each, Chuzhanova, Avdoshko — 4 each)
AGU-Adyif — Stavropolye — 30:31 (14:8) (Kobzh — 11, Dvortsevaya, Vigurzhinskaya — 4 each; Boloba — 10, Nefedova — 7, Sivovalova — 6)
Astrakhanochka — Lada — 31:23 (14:8) (Shichkina — 8, Sharkova — 6, Iureva — 5; Kirdyasheva — 6, V.Nikitina — 4)
Tournament standings. 1. CSKA — 44 points (22 matches). 2. Rostov-Don — 36 (22). 3. Astrakhanochka — 35 (21). 3. Lada — 31 (22). 5. Zvezda — 28 (21). 6. Kuban — 22 (21). 7. Dinamo-Sinara — 22 (21). 8. Stavropolye — 18 (22). 9. Universitet — 17 (22). 10. Fenix — 12 (21). 11. Luch — 6 (21). 12. AGU-Adyif — 5 (21). 13. Baltiyskaya zarya — 2 (21).
Photo: HC CSKA press