BEKO PBL. Play-offs. Quaterfinals. First matches. CSKA, UNICS, Lokomotiv, and Khimki take lead in their series

BEKO PBL Russian league

Play-offs

Quaterfinals (best-of-three)

First matches

UNICS Kazan – BC Nizhny Novgorod – 86:66 (27:15, 20:19, 18:16, 21:16)

UNICS: Lampe (22 + 13 rebounds), Pashutin (10 + 5 turnovers), Samoylenko (9 + 9 assists), Veremeenko (8 + 7 rebounds), Popovic (3) – start; Lyday (21), Padius (8), Minard (5), Zamansky (0), Rizvic (0).

NIZHNY NOVGOROD: Yakovenko (19 + 7 rebounds), Paunic (12), Golovin (4), Antonov (3), Ivanov (2) – start; Protic (20), Pustogvar (6 + 7 rebounds), Savelyev (0), Antipov (0), Baranov (0).

May 23. 17.00 CET.

UNICS lead the series 1-0.

BC Khimki – Spartak St. Petersburg – 87:82 (15:26, 27:21, 27:20, 18:15)

KHIMKI: Kelati (15), Planinic (13), Monya (9), Savrasenko (4), Panin (0) – start; Fridzon (14), Loncar (12), Hanssen (8), Papadopoulos (8), Lopez (4).

SPARTAK: Beverley (18), Domercant (17), Ponkrashov (11), Dragovic (11), Bashminov (0) – start; Kotishevsky (10), Antic (5), Dyachok (4), Zupan (4), P. Popovic (2), Korchagin (0), Zozulin (0).

May 23. 17.00 CET.

BC Khimki lead the series 1-0.

CSKA Moscow – Krasnye Krylia Samara – 82:73 (22:23, 14:12, 26:25, 20:13)

CSKA: Kaun (20), JR Holden (15), Siskauskas (15 + 6 assists), Hryapa (6), Langdon (5) – start; Vorontsevich (12), Shved (7 + 5 turnovers), Becirovic (2), Smodis (0), Sokolov (0).

KRASNYE KRYLIA: Bremer (18 + 6 assists), Brezec (14 + 5 turnovers), Rush (13 + 7 turnovers), Nesterov (4), Kuzyakin (0) – start; Zvarykin (9), Dedushkin (7), Dmitriev (5), Green (3), Anisimov (0).

May 23. 17.00 CET.

CSKA lead the series 1-0.

Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar – Yenisey Krasnoyarsk – 83:80 (21:19, 19:23, 21:15, 22:23)

LOKOMOTIV-KUBAN: Massey (15), Chalmers (13 + 8 rebounds + 7 assists + 5 turnovers), Grigoriev (5), Shukhovtsov (3), Tucker (0) – start; Wilkinson (26 + 7 rebounds), Jeretin (12), Toporov (5), Sheleketo (2), Vasiliev (2), Surovtsev (0).

YENISEY: Williams (28), Labovic (18 + 8 rebounds), Baxter (10), Komarovsky (3), Savkov (2) – start; Pinkney (9), Sergeyev (7), Demeshkin (3).

May 23. 17.30 CET.

Lokomotiv lead the series 1-0.

The next games will be held on May 26 and, if required, on May 28.