Uralmash defeated Avtodor and secured a place in the play-in of the United League

The Yekaterinburg basketball club “Uralmash” won a home match of the United League over the Saratov “Avtodor”.

The beginning of the meeting was left to Uralmash, which quickly achieved a double-digit advantage, but Avtodor reduced the gap by the end of the first quarter, and at the beginning of the second it took the lead again. However, Uralmash was able to take the lead again, and by the middle of the third quarter the factory team’s advantage was 17 points.

At that moment, the game was interrupted due to a massive brawl between the players, which began after Avtodor representative Alexander Petenev fouled Stanley Whittaker. It took the judges about five minutes to identify the most active participants in the brawl. As a result, Avtodor player Dusan Beslach was punished with a disqualifying foul, and the judges treated Uralmash player Octavius ​​Ellis with a technical.

After the resumption of the match, Avtodor was able to reduce the gap to five points, but the ending still remained with Uralmash. The result of the meeting was 82:66 in favor of Rostislav Vergun’s team.

Thanks to the victory, the “factory team” secured a place in the play-in round – play-off matches for two tickets to the decisive stage of the playoffs. In addition, after the defeat of their direct competitor, BC Samara, from Paris-Nizhny Novgorod, the Ekaterinburg team came out on top in Group B, which gives home court advantage in the first play-in match. At the same time, Uralmash will play the next match against Samara away. The game will take place on March 28