The men’s handball teams of Rostov and Astrakhan regions qualified for the quarter-finals of the Spartakiad of the strongest after a head-to-head match in the 5th round of the group stage.
Astrakhan won with the score of 34:26, the most productive player among the winners with 6 goals was Arseniy Ukhvarkin. Ivan Busen and Gleb Chernov also scored 6 times for the Rostov region.
The result of the match suited both teams: Astrakhan, thanks to a victory with 6 points, moved to second place in group B, and Rostovites are in 4th position with 4 points, but will be ahead of representatives of the Voronezh region ( 2 points) in a personal meeting, although the Voronezh team beat the team from the Omsk region in the last round.
In women’s group B, teams played that had lost their four matches before and lost their chances of reaching the quarter-finals. In the last game of the tournament, the Stavropol Territory was stronger than St. Petersburg (35:27), Ekaterina Nefedova scored 7 goals.
Source : MatchTV
