Russia (bbabo.net), - An extraordinary event took place in the national basketball championship among women's teams. Four players of the club system of the bronze medalist of the Premier League 2020/21 of the Moscow MBA at once had to play two matches per day in different divisions.
Teams of the Moscow Basketball Association (MBA) play at two levels of the national championship at once - in the elite Premier League and in Superleague 1. Both tournaments are held under the auspices of the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF). The leadership of the capital's club basically does not resort to the services of foreign athletes, here only home-grown performers come to the site. On the eve of the 14th round of the Premier League, the MBA faced a personnel problem - due to injuries and illnesses, only six girls from the main team remained in the ranks. Reservists from MBA-2 came to their aid, who played two matches in a day.
At 12.30 at the site of the Sports Palace in Krylatskoye, the match of the Superleague 1 MBA-2 - "Kazanochka" began. The hosts lost with a score of 64:67. After this meeting, several players of the hosts, having had a quick snack, began to prepare for the match of the Premier League MBA - Dynamo (Novosibirsk region). Here the starting controversial ball was played at 16.00.
Here are the playing time figures for the girls from the MBA, who had to play two matches in a day. Nadezhda Yazykova - 25 min. 18 sec., 8 points in Superleague 1 plus 3 seconds in the Premier League, Anastasia Bocharova - 15.07 and 4 points + 5.31 and 5 points, Ekaterina Koshechkina - 29.04 and 12 points + 18.33 and 5 points, Veronika Loginova - 27.17 and 8 points + 15.42 and 4 points.
At the same time, in the Premier League match, the main team of the IBA, not without the help of these reservists, achieved success to the delight of their fans - 78:77. The winning throw was made by the world champion and two-time European champion in the Olympic discipline "basketball 3x3", the most experienced Anna Leshkovtseva.
The current national champion UMMC (Yekaterinburg) is still undefeated in this tournament. In the 14th round, playing at home with Dynamo Moscow, the team set a season record for performance, winning with a score of 111:56. The previous achievement in the Premier League 2021/22 also belonged to Yekaterinburg women - 109:57 in the away game with Dynamo Novosibirsk. Now the fact that the Dynamo due to injuries and illnesses arrived at the game with eight players played into the hands of the hostesses, although 12 players can be entered for the match. Brittney Greiner (20 points), Ellie Quigley (19), Russian national team center Maria Vadeeva (18) and Alba Torrens (17) became the best scorers in the UMMC. Anna Pozdnyakova, daughter of Stanislav Pozdnyakov, head of the Russian Olympic Committee, scored 16 points at Dynamo.
The central match of the tour was the opposition of rivals in the spring "bronze" series "Nika" (Syktyvkar) - "Nadezhda" (Orenburg). And again, the girl from the capital of the Komi Republic is stronger - 79:66. Moreover, “Nika” was 9 points behind by the big break (31:40). But the next two quarters turned out to be shocking for the Syktyvkar team - 21:9 and 27:17. At “Nika”, led by the former head coach of the Russian national team, only seven basketball players appeared on the court. The legionnaires scored the lion's share of the points, but the candidates for our national team were not extras either. Raisa Musina scored 9 points, Maria Cherepanova - 9, Marina Goldyreva - 6.
The leaders in the championship are: UMMC (Yekaterinburg) - 14 wins - 0 losses, Dynamo (Kursk) - 13-1, MBA (Moscow) - 11-3, Nika (Syktyvkar) - 9-5. Equal balance of victories and defeats (7-7) for two clubs - Krasnoyarsk "Yenisei" and Novosibirsk "Dynamo". Orenburg Nadezhda and Sparta & K (Vidnoye) are also in the zone of getting into the playoffs - 6-8 each.
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