MFBC Grimma took the fifth place in women by winning Saint Petersburg United.

Saint Petersburg United-MFBC Grimma 5-6 (1-3, 0-2, 4-1)

The first period went slightly under MFBC Grimma’s command even though they had only one shot on goal more than Saint Petersburg. Stefanie Reinhardt scored 1-0 for Grimma after three minutes of play. Daniela Kolbe continued by scoring 2-0 nine minutes later. Iuliia Komova decreased the score when 14 minutes was played, but Sonja Dietel put the Leipzig club to 3-1 lead by putting the ball into the net from in front of the goal.

Right in the start of the second period Vanessa Weikum scored 4-1 and Grimma took more clearly the control of the game. Daniela Kolbe was still the only one to score anymore during the 20 minutes by adding Grimma’s lead to 5-1.

As so many times in this tournament already, in the third period things got interesting. Stefanie Reinhardt put the MFBC lead to 6-1, but after that Saint Petersburg started to get nearer and nearer goal by goal. Viktoriia Kolodiazhnaia scored 6-2 at 54:36 and after that Liubov Serebriakova scored a hat trick. Any closer they still couldn’t get and Grimma took the fifth place by winning 6-5.

Hat trick hero Serebriakova was the most effective one of the Russian team. Grimma’s Reinhardt and Kolbe both scored twice.

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