Uralochka defeated Lokomotiv Baku.

"Baku Volley Tournament" started today with the match Lokomotiv-Uralochka in the Baku Sport Palace.
Uralochka Yekaterinburg started match with attacks by Estes and Kovalchyk and Lokomotiv answered with powerful spikes of captain Yelena Parkhomenko and Julie Rubenstein. First set ended with the majority of Azeri team 25-23.
Uralochka played great team-game in the following three sets and won them respectively 25-21: 25-12 and 25-20 and ended the match 3-1.
The best players of the teams were: Belorussian diagonal Oksana Kovalchyk (Uralochka) and American young but very very impressive outside-hitter Julie Rubenstein (Lokomotiv).

Lokomotiv Baku: Smak,Samoylova,Kovalenko,Parkhomenko,Rubenstein,Kamenova and libero Filipova. (Richards,Mammadyarova)
Uralochka: Salina,Kovalchyk,Estes,Rusakova,Filipova,Beloborodova and libero Kuznetsova.

Note: Lokomotiv missed three main players Nancy Metcalf,Nicole Davis and Elena Keldibekova who take part in the World Championship in Japan.
Uralochka played with the whole team.

Statistics soon.