The first finalist of the men’s championship of Russia was defined on Friday in Saint-Petersburg.
HC Zenit achieved a home victory over HC Victor and won the semi-final series. Vitaly Mazurov from the Stavropol club scored 6 goals.
In the first match of the game day HC Dinamo-Sungul Snezhinsk beat HC SKIF Krasnodar again and continued fighting for the fifth place of the Russian championship. Dmitriy Karlov’s wards will compete with the winner of the match between HC Permskie Medvedi and HC Dinamo Astrakhan. HC SKIF will face the matches for the 7-8th places.
2 May
Return matches
1/2 finals
Zenit — Victor — 33:23 (15:14) (Astrashapkin — 5; Mazurov — 6)
The first match — 23:22
Matches for the 5-8th places
Dinamo-Sungul - SKIF — 35:31 (15:14) (P.Arkatov, Pavelyev — 6 each; Mikhaylichenko — 7, Shalabanov, Dashko — 6 each)
The first match — 31:23
Photo: HC Zenit press
