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In the opening round of the first group stage of the Euroleague basketball, ULEB CSKA beat the Greek Maroussi on the road - 66:65.
The ending of the meeting turned out to be very effective, dramatic for the hosts and successful for the “red-blues”. Ten seconds before the siren about the end of regulation time, after a throw by American Trajan Langdon, the Muscovites took the lead 64:62. However, the opponents managed to carry out an effective attack, which was crowned by a three-point shot by Maroussi player Keys. The numbers on the scoreboard were 1.4 - that’s exactly how many seconds remained until the end of the fourth period. Zoran Planinic threw the ball into play in the middle of the court, found the team captain Khryapa, who was opening near the six-meter line, with a long pass, and Victor sent the ball into the ring along an incredibly high trajectory with the resistance of his guard.
“What we expected is what we got - a very difficult match against a good team, with a good squad and coach,” the club’s official website quotes CSKA coach Evgeny Pashutin as saying. - I'm glad that our leaders are taking shape - Holden, Langdon and Siskauskas showed a high-level game today. We did well in defense, Maroussi scored only 65 points, but we still need to work on the attack - here we looked weak, especially in the second quarter.”
Results. Euroleague. 1st stage, 1st round. Group "A". "Cibona" (Croatia) - "Montepaschi" (Italy) - 40:85, "Zalgiris" (Lithuania) - ASVEL (France) - 71:52, "Fenerbahce" (Turkey) - "Barcelona" ( Spain) -- 59:82. Group "B". "Olympiacos" (Greece) - "Orleans" (France) - 94:72. Group "C". Maccabi T-A (Israel) - Olimpia (Slovenia) - 85:65, Maroussi (Greece) - CSKA - 65:66. Group "D". "Prokom" (Poland) - "Oldenburg" (Germany) - 81:87. “Khimki” – “Real” (Spain) – 84:81 (OT).
Quarterfinals at the Kremlin Cup today
At the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow yesterday, the second round matches were completed and the strongest eight were determined. For men, the composition of the quarterfinal pairs looks like this: Kukushkin (Kazakhstan) - Cuevas (Uruguay), Yuzhny - Stakhovsky (Ukraine), Tipsarevic (Serbia) - Ginepri (USA), Marchenko (Ukraine) - the winner of the match that ended late in the evening Safin - Korolev. There was a sensation in the women's competition. Vera Zvonareva, seeded number one, suffered a major defeat from Bulgarian qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova - 0:6, 2:6. The fight for the title on Friday will continue with the matches: Jankovic (Serbia) - Kleybanova, Dushevina - Govortsova (Belarus), Kirilenko - Schiavvone (Italy), A. Bondarenko (Ukraine) - Pironkova.
Uralochka lost to Dynamo in Moscow
Volleyball. Super League. Women. 2nd round. "Leningradka" - "Dynamo-Yantar" - 3:1 (25:21, 25:18, 13:25, 25:17), "Indesit" - "Nugget" - 2:3 (25:19 , 23:25, 26:24, 21:25, 11:15), “Zarechye-Odintsovo” - “Omichka” - 2:3 (24:26, 16:25, 25:17, 25:15, 9:15), "Avtodor-Metar" - "Dynamo" (Kazan) - 3:2 (25:17, 23:25, 19:25, 25:19, 15:8), "Dynamo" M - - "Uralochka-NTMK" - 3:1 (23:25, 25:18, 25:17, 25:14), "University-Tekhnolog" - "Dynamo" (Krasnodar) - 2:3 (20: 25, 21:25, 25:20, 25:13, 13:15). The leaders are: Dynamo M, Omichka, Dynamo (Krasnodar) - 2 wins - 0 losses.
Unlike the men's super league, the “Italian” system of counting points in the tournament table does not apply to representatives of the fairer sex; classic regulations are applied. Therefore, the teams that win the tiebreaker do not lose points, and the losing teams do not replenish their piggy bank. Meanwhile, four matches of the tour ended in tiebreakers. The powerful selection carried out in the off-season by Dynamo Krasnodar is bearing fruit - the Kuban girls, who returned to the elite after a long break, won their second victory. The best scorer for the “blue and white” was the volleyball player of the Azerbaijani national team Natalya Mammadova (21 points).
The central meeting of the tour was the confrontation between the capital's champion Dynamo and the Yekaterinburg Uralochka of the legendary Nikolai Karpol. Naturalized Ukrainian Natalya Goncharova (24 points), whom many experts predict a great future, once again distinguished herself among the hosts. The current composition of “Uralochka” looks very peculiar. The most experienced volleyball player on the team is Evgenia Estes (Artamonova), born in 1975; all her other partners are at least ten years younger. After two defeats, Uralochka found itself among the outsiders, but this situation will probably be corrected soon. In the meantime, at the bottom of the table, Karpol’s charges are adjacent to Indesit and Dynamo Kazan.
Gonchar will miss a month or more
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. Islanders - Carolina - 4:3 (bullet point), Florida - Buffalo - 2:5, Chicago - Vancouver - 2:3, Boston - - Nashville - 3:2, Minnesota - Colorado - 3:2, Anaheim - Dallas - 2:4.
The defender of the leader of the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference, Pittsburgh, Sergei Gonchar, who injured his hand on the previous game day in the match against St. Louis, was out of action, according to preliminary estimates from doctors, for a period of four to six weeks. This is a very serious loss for the Penguins, because this season Sergei spends on average more than 24 minutes of net time on the ice per game this season and, despite the fact that his main task is defensive action, he ranks third in the team’s list of scorers.
Sergei Samsonov from Carolina was the only one who did not take the shootout in the post-match series. Six of the seven goals in the Buffalo-Florida match were scored in the first period from the second to the 17th minute. “Dallas” in the meeting with “Anaheim” first scored three unanswered goals, and then allowed the opponent to reduce the gap to a minimum. When the hosts replaced the goalkeeper with a sixth player, Stars center Steve Ott hit the empty net.