In the first match of the series for the 5th place of the women’s championship of Russia HC Kuban turned out to be stronger than HC Dinamo-Sinara — 28:23.
At the start of the second half the captain of the Krasnodar team Iana Savinova couldn’t continue playing after knee injury.
The return match will be held in Krasnodar on Monday, 29 May.
25 May
The first matches
The match for the 5th place
Dinamo-Sinara — Kuban — 23:28 (9:12) (Bezbabnykh — 6, Starshova, Semina — 5 each; Sobkalo — 6, Bobina — 5, Golub — 4)
The match for the 3rd place
Lada — Zvezda — 34:36 (20:19) (V.Nikitina — 10, Fomina — 7, Kirdyasheva, Shcherbak — 5 each; N.Nikitina — 10, Egorova — 7, Osipova — 5)
Final
CSKA — Rostov-Don — 32:28 (15:14) (Murzalieva — 6, Gorshkova, Baeva — 5 each; Zelenkova — 9, Managarova — 7)
The match for the 7th place
Stavropolye — Astrakhanochka — 24:29 (11:13) (Sivovalova — 6, Belchikova — 5, Nefedova — 4; Sharkova — 6, Shalnova, Romanenko — 4 each)
Photo: HC Dinamo-Sinara press
