YAROSLAVL (Interstat) — Daniil Isayev stopped all 24 shots and Alexander Yelesin scored the lone goal as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl beat visiting Severstal Cherepovets 1-0 in a Kontinental Hockey League game Sunday at Arena 2000. Yelesin scored at 14:57 of the first period, with assists from Denis Alexeyev and Alexander Polunin. Lokomotiv improved to 14-5, while Severstal fell to 11-9. Isayev was the top star. Polunin finished with an assist and three shots. Alexeyev had an assist and two shots. Alexei Bereglazov had three shots, Artyom V. Kuzin had two shots and two hits, and Maxim Shalunov had three shots. Severstal’s Ivan Podshivalov had two shots and one hit. Georgy Ivanov had two shots and two penalty minutes. Nikita Cherepanov added two shots. Attendance was 8,271. Lokomotiv’s Andrei Sergeyev and Severstal’s Denis Yan received penalties in the third period, and Thomas Gregoire also was penalized for holding.