Belogorie Belgorod, led by Gyorgy Grozer, reached for another three points beating Iskra in the suburbs of Moscow, Odincovo, and advanced to the third place in the blue pool. Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod made the greatest surprise of this round winning the sensational Zenit Kazan’s tamer a week ago, Gazprom Surgut.
Iskra Odincovo lost its second match in a row and already went significantly down in the Superleague’s standings. All by a failure in three sets at home with Belogorie Belgorod. After the first set, easily won by Belogorie (25-21), Iskra was able to rise and struggle till the decisive part of the second and third set. Then, they lost self confidence in attack not taking advantage some chances to win at least one set. Iskra had to manage without its major gun Gavin Schmitt, who was injured and his absence was clearly visible. While Schmitt recovered, another ‘scoring machine’ Gyorgy Grozer collected 14 points (12 in attacks, 57% of efficiency and 2 blocks) for Belgorod. The Russian tower Dimitry Muserskiy scored 11 points and Taras Khtey 10 points (2 aces). Among the hosts, Denis Kalinin finished 9 attacks and added 1 block. In this match, Vadim Khamuttskikh made his Superleague debut after restart of his career.
Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod overcome Gazprom Yurga Surgut 3-0 and advanced to the third position in the pool of red in the Russian Superleague. Gubernia lately experiences a real explosion of good shape due to victories in three last matches, despite the fact Novgorod was not a favorite of the match because Gazprom crashed Zenit Kazan last week so the team from Siberia was leading all predictions of bookies. Surgut actually confirmed high aspiration in the game, but only in the second set, which also lost. Two remaining sets were a pure supremacy of Gubernia, directed by Mikko Esko. The well-known Finn created Nikolay Pavlov as the scoring leader. Pavlov contributed 16 points spiking with 59% of efficiency. Another ‘straniero’ of Novgorod, Milos Nikic, added 11 points with shy high effectiveness percentage (77%). As far as Gazprom is concerned, a middle-blocker Teodor Todorov scored 15 points (4 blocks, 67 of efficiency).
All results of the 9th leg:
Teams from the red group vs Teams from the blue group
Fakel Novy Urengoy – Yaroslavich Yaroslavl 3:1 (25:18, 21:25, 25:21, 25:18)
Top Scorers: Bakun 19, Titich 13, Melnik 10, Roca 9; Pluzhnikov 17, Kulikovskiy 14, Yudin 11, Filippov 5.
Prikam Perm – Ural Ufa 3:1 (20:25, 31:29, 25:16, 25:14)
Top Scorers: Karpenko 22, Kovalev 16, Likhosherstov 14; Spiridonov 18, Abramov 11, Maksimov 8
Dinamo Krasnodar – Grozny 2:3 (25:27, 25:17, 25:15, 25:27, 13:15)
Top Scorers: Nosenko 24, Mochalov 19, Eremin 18, Khilchenko 9; Bestuzyev 21, Kostyukhin 12, Shipotko 12
Dinamo Moscow – Kuzbass Kemerovo 3:0 (25:18, 25:17, 25:19)
Top Scorers: Kruglov 16, Afinoguenov 11, Veres 9, Markin 7; Moroz 11, Andrae 11, Tuia 7, Parkhomchuk 6
Iskra Odintsovo – Belogorie Belgorod 0:3 (21:25, 23:25, 23:25)
Top Scorers: Kalinin 10, Danilov 7, Koulechov 7, Burtsev 6; Grozer 14, Muserskiy 11, Khtey 10, Fomenko 8
Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod – Gazprom Yugra Surgut 3:0 (25:16, 29:27, 25:22)
Top Scorers: Pavlov 16, Ostapenko 15, Nikic 11, Savin 10; Todorov 13, Rodichev 10, Aleksiev 7, Smolyar 7, Leontiev 7
Shakhtar Soligorsk – Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 0:3 (19:25, 13:25, 21:25)
Top Scorers: Ashlei Nemer 9, Miklashevich 7, Levchenko 7, Udrys 6, Audochanka 6; Nilsson 13, Volvich 13, Divis 10, Gutsalyuk 9
Lokomotiv Kharkhiv – Zenit Kazan 0:3 (19:25, 21:25, 24:26)
Top Scorers: Ivanov 12, Tyutlin 7, Iereshchenko 7, Rudnytskyy 7; Anderson 12, Apalikov 12, Sivozhelez 9, Mikhaylov 9
Standings:
Group of Blue:
- Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 24
- Zenit Kazan 21
- Belogorie Belgorod 18
- Gazprom Yugra Surgut 18
- Ural Ufa 17
- Kuzbass Kemerovo 11
- Yaroslavich Yaroslavl 7
- Grozny 6
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Group of Red:
- Fakel Novy Urengoy 19
- Dinamo Moscow 14
- Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod 14
- Dinamo Krasnodar 13
- Iskra Odintsovo 13
- Lokomotiv Kharkhiv 11
- Prikam Perm 6
- Shakhtar Soligorsk 4