Russian League, Regular Season, Game 18: February 1-2, 2008 - RUSSIA

May 25, 2013

Russian League, Regular Season, Game 18: February 1-2, 2008

CSKA Moscow held off the challenge of Khimki 68-64 to take over sole possession of first place in the Russian League. The perennial champion got 16 points from Trajan Langdon to improve to 15-1, while Khimki dropped to 14-2. CSKA used a 22-12 second period to take a 35-27 halftime lead, but Khimki got back in the game in the third period and kept it close down the stretch, but Langdon stepped up even when Khimki got within 65-64 and iced the game with a pair of free throws. Unics Kazan picked up a big 79-83 road win at Dynamo Moscow to climb closer to the top four spots in the standings. Unics built a 51-67 lead heading into the fourth quarter to take care of business early and then held off the hosts’ late charge. Darjus Lavrinovic scored 19 and Jerry McCullough 18 for the winners, who improved to 10-6, two wins fewer than Triumph Lyubertsy and Dynamo, the teams ranked third and fourth in the standings, respectively. Triumph fell 72-61 at Ural Great as Ivan Koljevic scored 22. In other games, CSK VVS-Samara bested Lokomotiv Rostov 78-57 as Sergei Demeshkin netted 23 points, Jelani Gardner scored 20 points as Universitet-Ugra Surgut topped Spartak St.Petersburg 94-89 and Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv edged Spartak-Primorie Primorskiy 79-78 behind 19 points from Aleksei Kiryanov.

CSKA Moscow held off the challenge of Khimki 68-64 to take over sole possession of first place in the Russian League. The perennial champion got 16 points from Trajan Langdon to improve to 15-1, while Khimki dropped to 14-2. CSKA used a 22-12 second period to take a 35-27 halftime lead, but Khimki got back in the game in the third period and kept it close down the stretch, but Langdon stepped up even when Khimki got within 65-64 and iced the game with a pair of free throws. David Andersen added 13 for CSKA, while J.R. Holden and Marcus Goree scored 11 each. Former CSKA player Anton Ponkrashov led Khimki with 17 and Daniel Ewing added 13 in defeat.

Unics Kazan picked up a big 79-83 road win at Dynamo Moscow to climb closer to the top four spots in the standings. Unics built a 51-67 lead heading into the fourth quarter to take care of business early and then held off the hosts’ late charge. Darjus Lavrinovic scored 19, Jerry McCullough 18 and Nikolay Padius 11 for the winners. Milos Vujanic had 17 for Dynamo, Travis Hansen netted 14 and Sergei Bykov 11. Ural Great thumped Triumph Lyubertsy 72-61. The hosts used a 24-14 second period to go ahead 40-30 at halftime, increased that to 59-41 after 30 minutes and then held off Triumph’s late rally to get to 8-8 in the standings. Ivan Koljevic scored 22 points and Brent Wright had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the winners. Terrell Lyday paced Triumph with 13 and Igor Zamanski added 12.

LAST GAME GAME 18 February 1-2, 2008
Day	Match	Result
Feb. 2	CSKA Moscow vs. Khimky	68-64
Feb. 2	Ugra vs. St.Petersburg	94-89
Feb. 2	Samara vs. Rostov	78-57
Feb. 2	Sibirtelekom vs. Primorie	79-78
Feb. 1	Ural-Great vs. Triumph	72-61
Feb. 1	Dynamo Moscow vs. UNICS	79-83

NEXT GAME GAME 19 February 9-12, 2008
Day	Match
Feb. 9	Samara vs. Triumph
Feb. 10	Sibirtelekom vs. Rostov
Feb. 11	Khimky vs. Enisey
Feb. 12	Primorie vs. Ural-Great
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	STANDINGS	TG	W	L	P+	P-
1	CSKA Moscow	16	15	1	1364	1049
2	Khimky Moscow region	16	14	2	1382	1137
3	Triumph Lyubertsy, Moscow r.	15	11	4	1290	1098
4	Dynamo Moscow	17	12	5	1303	1213
5	UNICS Kazan	16	10	6	1194	1113
6	Ural-Great Perm	16	8	8	1219	1219
7	Lokomotiv-Rostov	15	7	8	1173	1179
8	CSK VVS-Samara	15	7	8	1147	1216
9	Universitet-Ugra Surgut	15	5	10	1177	1283
10	Spartak-Primorie Primorskiy r.	15	4	11	1148	1139
11	Spartak St.Petersburg	16	3	13	1175	1372
12	Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv	16	3	13	1137	1490
13	Enisey Krasnoyarsk	14	2	12	1079	1280