Russian League, Game 20: February 21-25, 2007
Thomas Van den Spiegel - CSKA Moscow CSKA is back atop the Russian League standings with a 15-2 record by thrashing Standart 106-66 in Moscow on Saturday. Thomas Van den Spiegel led 7 CSKA players in double digits with 17 points. Anatoliy Kashirov added 16, David Andersen had 15, Theo Papaloukas 14, Oscar Torres 11 while Nikita Kourbanov and Anton Ponkrashov each scored 10 points in an easy home win for CSKA. Khimki showed its power by downing Unics Kazan 113-80 at home on Friday. Khimki improved to 15-4 while Unics dropped to 14-3 to be second in the standings. Ruben Wolkowyski led the winners with 22 points, Maciej Lampe added 21, Kelly McCarty had 10 and Melvin Booker 14 for Khimki, that led 28-12 after 10 minutes and never looked back. Ksystof Lavrinovic had 16 points for Unics, Saulius Stombergas added 14, Jarod Stevenson had 13 and Jerry McCullough 11. Dynamo Moscow survived a tough battle and improved to 13-4 by edging Spartak St. Petersburg 77-78 in overtime on the road on Sunday. Lazaros Papadopoulos led the winners with 15 points, including a big basket to force overtime at 62-62, while Antonis Fotsis and Taquan Dean each added 13. Boniface Ndong led Spartak with 31 points and 13 rebounds. Dynamo trailed 73-67 with back-to-back triples by Sergey Monya rescued the guests. It all came down to the final seconds, as Ndong tied it at 77-77 but Dimitri Domani made 1 of 2 free throws to win it for Dynamo. In other games, University Surgut beat Spartak 65-57, Spartak Vgues topped Ural Great 84-79 while Lokomotiv thrashed Sibirtelekom 80-107 on the road.


LAST GAME GAME 20 - February 21-25, 2007
DayMatchResult
Feb. 25Sibirtelekom vs. Lokomotiv-Rostov80-107
Feb. 25Spartak vs. Dynamo Moscow77-78 OT
Feb. 24CSKA Moscow vs. Standart106-66
Feb. 24Spartak VGUES vs. Ural-Great84-79
Feb. 23Khimky Moscow region vs. UNICS Kazan113-80
Feb. 21University-Ugra vs. Spartak65-57
NEXT GAME GAME 21 - Feb. 27 - March 4, 2007
DayMatch
Feb. 27Sibirtelekom vs. Ural-Great
Feb. 28Spartak VGUES vs. Lokomotiv-Rostov
Mar. 1Standart vs. University-Ugra
Mar. 2Ural-Great vs. Dinamo Moscow reg.
Mar. 3CSKA Moscow vs. Sibirtelekom
Mar. 4Dynamo Moscow vs. University-Ugra


STANDINGSTGWLP+P-
1CSKA Moscow 171521510 1170
2UNICS Kazan 171431435 1282
3Khimky Moscow region191541667 1424
4Dynamo Moscow171341404 1216
5Lokomotiv-Rostov171161366 1228
6Dinamo Moscow reg.17981306 1280
7Spartak VGUES188101385 1455
8Spartak St.Petersburg16791211 1230
9Ural-Great Perm176111331 1403
10CSK VVS-Samara176111282 1371
11University-Ugra Surgut175121337 1413
12Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv172151204 1500
13Standart Samarskiy region181171237 1703

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