Black Sea Cup. HC Riga - Russia-1 - 1:3

For their first match of the Black Sea Cup, Russia-1 took on HC Riga, Dinamo Riga's youth team which competes in the MHL. 

It was a hard fought match for the most part, and eventually down to goals from Dmitry Zhukenov, Egor Popov and Nikita Makeev, Russia-1 earned a tough 3:1 victory over their Latvian opponents!

Match protocol:

Latvia - Russia-1 - 1:3 (1:1, 0:0, 0:2)

Goals:

0:1 Zhukenov (D. Alexeev, Lukin), 02.45

1:1 Zille, 15.45

1:2 Popov, 43.02

1:2 Makeev (Glotov), 54.37

Russian line-up:

K. Volkov

Fazylzyanov - Bannikov, Kudryatsev - Belyaev - Chebykin;

Makeev - Chmykhov, Artemov - Glotov - Tyanulin;

Vladimirov - Karpukhin, Babenko - Sholokhov - Smirnov;

Alexeev - Yakovenko, Popov - Zhukenov - Lukin - Miromanov.

Russian Ice Hockey Federation