Russian League, Regular Season, Game 3: October 14-17, 2007 - RUSSIA

May 22, 2013

Russian League, Regular Season, Game 3: October 14-17, 2007

Defending champion CSKA Moscow and Triumph Lyubertsy top a list of four unbeaten teams in the Russian League midway through October. CSKA, which beat CSK VVS-Samara 97-62 on Wednesday, leads all teams with a 5-0 record. Alexey Savrasenko and David Andersen led CSKA with 14 points apiece. Lyubertsy improved to 4-0 by taking down University-Ugra Surgut 88-72, behind Sergey Toporov's 14 points. Khimky Moscow is now 3-0 following a 97-67 home win over Spartak St. Petersburg. Daniel Ewing led all scorers with 16 points in that game. Dynamo Moscow won its second game by downing Lokomotiv-Rostov 72-67 as Niksa Prkacin posted a double-double. Unics Kazan was pushed to the limit before finding an answer for Zendon Hamilton in an 86-85 win over Enisey Krasnoyarsk. Sergei Chikalkin and Dusko Savanovic combined for 45 points for Kazan, while Hamilton posted 21 in defeat. Also this week, Ural Great beat Spartak VGUES Primorie 69-53 behind Brent Wright's 16 points and 12 rebounds.

CSKA came out firing, built a 31-13 lead after 10 minutes, increased it to 55-29 by halftime and coasted home for a 97-62 home victory against Samara. Savrasenko led Moscow with 14 points and 8 rebounds, Andersen also scored 14, Trajan Langdon added 13, J.R. Holden 12 and young Alexey Shved shipped in 11. For Samara, Alex Scales and former Euroleague champ Yaniv Green had 14 apiece. Lyubertsy put up 34 points in the second quarter on the way to a 21-point halftime lead as it dumped Surgut 88-72. Riding a huge advantage in the second half, Lyubertsy played much of the latter part of the game with reserves, allowing Surgut to make the final score more respectable. Toporov finished with 14 and Terrell Lyday 11 for the winners, for whom every player played at least 12 minutes and scored a field goal. Chudney Gray led Surgut with 16.

Khimky Moscow outscored Spartak St. Petersburg in each of the four quarters on the way to a 97-67 home win. The opening period ended 25-11 and Khimky led 52-31 at the half as it cruised home. Ewing paced Khimky with 16, Kelly McCarty added 15 and Vladimir Veremeenko had 11 points and 8 rebounds for the victors. Rafael Araujo led St. Petersburg with 14 points and 7 boards. Dynamo Moscow won its second game by downing Lokomotiv-Rostov 72-67 in a close encounter. The visitors led 29-36 at halftime and held a 3-point lead heading into the fourth, but a big night from Prkacin helped Dynamo come back for the win. Prkacin finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds, Henry Domercant added 14, Antonis Fotsis had 12 points and 9 boards and young Dmitri Khvostov scored 10. Szymon Szewczyk led Rostov with 14. Unics Kazan was pushed to the limit before finding an answer for Zendon Hamilton in an 86-85 win over Enisey Krasnoyarsk. Unics started strong and lead 34-25 after a high-scoring opening period, but lost its touch after that as Krasnoyarsk cut the gap to 50-48 at halftime and took a 5-point lead after 30 minutes. But Chikalkin and Savanovic made sure the night had a happy ending for the home team. Chikalkin finished with 23 points, Savanovic had 22 points and 9 rebounds, Virgil Stanescu scored 11 and Jerry McCullough 10. Hamilton posted 21 points and 9 boards in defeat.

LAST GAME GAME 3 October 14-17, 2007
Day	Match	Result
Oct. 17	CSKA Moscow vs. Samara	97-62
Oct. 17	Dinamo M.reg. vs. Uni. Ugra	88-72
Oct. 16	UNICS Kazan vs. Enisey	86-85
Oct. 16	Khimky vs. Spartak St.Pet.	97-67
Oct. 16	Dynamo M. vs. Lokomotiv	72-67
Oct. 14	Ural-Great vs. Spart. VGUES	69-53

NEXT GAME GAME 4 October 19-21, 2007
Day	Match
Oct. 19	Sibirtelekom vs.Dynamo M.
Oct. 20	UNICS Kazan vs. Khimky
Oct. 20	Samara vs. Spartak VGUES
Oct. 20	Ural-Great vs. St.Pet.
Oct. 20	Lokomotiv vs. Enisey
Oct. 21	Ugra vs. Dynamo Moscow

	STANDINGS	TG	W	L	P+	P-
1	CSKA Moscow	5	5	0	471	317
2	Khimky Moscow region	3	3	0	304	212
3	Dinamo Moscow reg.	4	4	0	374	287
4	Dynamo Moscow	2	2	0	168	134
5	UNICS Kazan	3	2	1	257	243
6	Ural-Great Perm	3	1	2	225	231
7	Lokomotiv-Rostov	3	1	2	213	239
8	Spartak VGUES Primorie	3	1	2	197	226
9	Spartak St.Petersburg	3	1	2	224	255
10	University-Ugra Surgut	2	0	2	151	174
11	Enisey Krasnoyarsk	4	0	4	292	360
12	CSK VVS-Samara	3	0	3	194	293
13	Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv	2	0	2	126	225