Brest won a strong-willed victory over Novopolotsk Chemist in the game of the hockey championship of Belarus

In one of the four matches on Saturday, October 17, in the national hockey championship, Brest defeated Novopolotsk Chemist - 3: 1. It's reported by sb.by.

The guests opened the scoring with the efforts of Dmitry Kormilov (10th minute). However, this development of events did not knock the owners of the site out of the rut - and they responded with three captures of the gate. Maxim Tsybin (14), Maxim Melnikov (18) and Danil Paramonov (60) distinguished themselves.

The series of defeats of the oilmen increased to six matches. In general, in the current championship, the wards of Alexei Bondikov lost in 13 of the 14 meetings held, as a result of which they close the standings.

The fully digital picture of the game day in the extraleague looks like this: Vitebsk – Youth (Minsk) – 4:1, Gomel – Slavutich (Smolensk) – 3:4, Lida – Aviator (Baranovichi) – 0:2, Brest – Chemist (Novopolotsk) – 3:1.

Tomorrow, October 18, the program of the tournament will continue with such matches: Dynamo (Molodechno) – Lokomotiv (Orsha), Neman (Grodno) – Mogilev, Metallurg (Zhlobin) – Shakhtar (Soligorsk).

The tournament table is headed by Slavutich, which has 22 points. This is followed by Shakhtar (21), Metallurg (21), Brest (20), Gomel (18), Dynamo (18), Vitebsk (17), Aviator (15), Lida (15), Neman (13), Mogilev (8), Lokomotiv (7), Youth (5) and Chemist (3).

In the regular season, all teams will play 52 matches. According to the results of the stage of the six strongest squads qualify for 1/4 finals. Participants who finish in places from seventh to tenth will contest two more playoff vouchers in the qualifying round in series to two wins. The playoffs will begin on March 10 and end no later than April 23. At each stage - quarterfinal, semifinal and final - the fight will be fought up to four victories.

Most often in the championship of Belarus in hockey won the Minsk “Youth”, which has 11 trophies. Also in the three most titled teams of the tournament include Grodno “Neman” (7) and Zhlobin “Metallurg” (5).

Photo: hockey.by.