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RUS M: Zenit Kazan win regular stage, will go to playoffs as top-seed; Lokomotiv not the same team without Grozer

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source: volleyservice.ru; Photo: Роман Кручинин/zenit-kazan.com

Zenit Kazan scored the 7th win in a row in the Russian men’s volleyball championship Superliga and finished the regular season as the first-placed side, having 10 points and 2 wins more than the second-placed Belogorie Belgorod.

Zenit-Kazan

Zenit-Kazan

Four-time defending champions of Superliga, Zenit Kazan, secured top-seed for the playoffs, two rounds before the end of the regular season. In Round 24, Zenit Kazan beat Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk in straight sets, partially, 25-19, 25-11, 25-18, despite the fact their coach Vladimir Alekno gave the rest to Aleksandr Butko, Aleksey Verbov, Aleksandr Gutsalyuk, and American Matt Anderson (played the opening set only). Nikita Alekseev scored 14 points for Zenit Kazan while Artem Volvich and Maksim Panteleymonenko added 4 kill blocks apiece. In Samotlor, Sergey Panov scored 12 points.

By beating Nova Novokuybishevsk on the road, Dinamo Moscow climbed to No.3 for which they will fight Fakel Novy Urengoy and Zenit Sankt-Peterburg, who scored their 7th consecutive win, in the last two rounds.

Enisey Krasnoyarsk upset Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, who cannot lose their playoff spot but can fall to No.7. Until the end of the season, Lokomotiv will play without Georg Grozer, as the German opposite was traded to Belogorie.

RUS National Championship 2017/2018 / Male / Seniors

REGULAR SEASON / 24TH ROUND

DATE/TIME

TEAMS

SCORE

1

2

3

4

5

6

STATS

17.02.18:00

BELOGORIE BELGOROD LOKOMOTIV BELOGOROD

URAL UFA

3

1

25

22

23

25

27

25

25

19

     

17.02.18:00

DINAMO MOSCOW

NOVA NOVOKUYBISHEVSK

3

1

25

17

25

21

26

28

25

14

     

17.02.18:00

FAKEL NOVY URENGOY

KUZBASS KEMEROVO

1

3

22

25

25

17

19

25

23

25

     

17.02.18:00

YAROSLAVICH YAROSLAVL

GAZPROM-YUGRA SURGUT

0

3

22

25

23

25

23

25

       

17.02.18:00

ENISEY / YENISEI KRASNOYARSK

LOKOMOTIV NOVOSIBIRSK

3

1

26

28

27

25

25

22

25

19

     

17.02.17:00

ZENIT KAZAN

YUGRA SAMOTLOR NIZHNEVARTOVSK

3

0

25

19

25

11

25

19

       

17.02.18:00

ZENIT SANKT PETERBURG

DINAMO LENINGRADSKAYA OBLAST

3

1

25

18

26

24

23

25

25

19

 

 

Standings

#

Team

MP

W

L

S

P

1.

Zenit Kazan

24

22

2

69:15

66

2.

Belgorod

24

20

4

62:26

56

3.

Din. Moscow

24

17

7

56:34

48

4.

Novyi Urengoy

24

16

8

56:33

49

5.

Zenit St. Petersburg

24

16

8

55:35

47

6.

Novosibirsk

24

14

10

52:41

43

7.

Kemerovo

24

13

11

49:45

40

8.

Ufa

24

12

12

48:45

36

9.

Novokuybyshevsk

24

12

12

43:53

29

10.

Surgut region

24

9

15

41:56

28

11.

Dinamo-Lo

24

6

18

34:61

22

12.

Krasnoyarsk

24

6

18

32:59

20

13.

Yaroslavl

24

4

20

27:64

16

14.

Nizhievartovsk

24

1

23

14:71

4

 

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