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Women’s Volleyball GS Caltex won the league in 12 years… Heungkuk Life’s bitter second place in controversy over’hakpok’

It is noteworthy whether GS Caltex, the women’s professional volleyball team, will achieve an integrated championship by raising the championship cup in the championship match while confirming the championship in the regular league in 12 years.

In the match between Heungkuk Life Insurance and KGC Ginseng Corporation held at Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon on the 13th, as Heungkuk Life Insurance lost a set score of 0-3, GS Caltex confirmed the regular league championship regardless of the result of the match against Ginseng Corporation, the last game of the season on the 16th. did.

It has been 12 years since the 2008-09 season that GS Caltex won the top spot in the regular league. GS Caltex, which went directly to the championship match (5 matches, 3 wins) to be held on the 26th, aims for an integrated win by confronting the winners of Heungkuk Life Insurance and IBK Industrial Bank’s playoffs (3 matches, 2 wins), which will be held from the 20th. As for the club, it has been 7 years since the 2013-14 season with the advancement to the 3rd championship match.

The driving force behind GS Caltex’s victory was the stable organizational power that was shown in attack and receive, above all. GS Caltex, who left one game, took first place with an attack success rate of 41.2% and a receive efficiency of 41.0%.

In particular, foreign players Ruts, Lee So-young, and Kang So-hui’s’Triangles’ took on an absolute role. Lutz is in third place with 854 points in 29 games, So-young Lee is in 9th place with 437 points, and So-hui Kang is in 12th place with 353 points. These three teamed together with 1644 points, accounting for 93.0% of the 1767 points of the team’s attack. Blocking, serving, and the opposing team’s overall score totaled 2709 points, the highest in the women’s division.

Even at the beginning of the season, Heungkuk Life, who joined the sisters Lee Jae-young and Da-young, “volleyball empress” Kim Yeon-kyung, ran 10 consecutive victories and even made the coined word “Uh Woo-heung” (Heungkuk Life Insurance won anyway). However, at the end of the season, the school violence problem of the twin sisters arose, and while Heungkuk Life, who had two players missing, was staggering, GS Caltex came out to win the regular league.

Volleyball empress Kim Yeon-kyung, who dreamed of winning after returning to the domestic league after 11 years, spent a bitter regular league. Kim Yeon-kyung returned to Korea with annual salary cuts for participation in the Tokyo Olympics, but he was overwhelmed by disagreements between the players, and even in the worst team atmosphere due to the departure of the main player, he worked hard to thoroughly read the players as a captain. However, for Kim Yeon-kyung, the season is not completely over yet.

GS Caltex, which aims for an integrated championship by showing the performance of a backup player and a sticky organization of’one team’, is expected to determine the direction of the championship cup. GS Caltex is on the verge of 3 wins and 3 losses against Heungkuk Life Insurance this season. It is dominant against IBK with 4 wins and 2 losses. The characteristics of the short-term war have many variables. Given the characteristics of women’s volleyball, which has a lot of atmosphere, it is not easy to guarantee that the winning team will win the league. In fact, since the launch of the pro in 2005, it has been seven times the league winner has reached the top of the 15 championships.

On the 14th, coach Sang-Hyun Cha, who is aiming for the first unified championship in history, said on the 14th, “Someone may say,’We are lucky,’ but we were able to seize the opportunity because our players have endured so well.”

Ki-cheol Lee, Senior Reporter [email protected]