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Posted: Sat February 7, 1998 at 1:59 p.m. EST KAZAKHSTAN 5, ITALY 3 ---------------------Mikhail Borodulin scored a pair of goals, including the game winner, and Kazakhstan allowed just six shots on goal over the final two periods en route to a 5-3 victory over Italy in Nagano, Japan. The victory put Kazakhstan atop the Group A standings after the first day of preliminary-round play. The top team from the four-team group after round-robin play will advance to the championship round. Group A also includes Austria and Slovakia. Borodulin, a right wing, scored on the power play at 7:44 of the third period to break a 3-3 tie. His first goal of the game at 5:49 of the second period pulled Kazakhstan within a goal after Italy had raced to a 3-1 first-period lead. Pavel Kamentsev iced the victory with a short-handed goal with just under four minutes to play. Vitali Tregubov and Dmitri Dudarev also scored for Kazakhstan, which faces Austria on Sunday. Italy scored three times in span of 6:51 late in the first period, but was unable to mount much offense the rest of the way against relief goalie Alexander Shimin. Shimin came on to start the second period after starter Vitali Yeremeyev surrendered three goals on 12 shots in the opening period. Tregubov opened the scoring with a power-play goal 12:11 into the game, but Bruno Zarrillo tied it just 53 seconds later. Dino Felicetti put Italy ahead 78 seconds later and Zarrillo scored on the power play with just five seconds left in the period. Mike Rosati allowed five goals on just 18 shots for Italy, which faces Slovakia Sunday.
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