Heungkuk Life has fallen into four consecutive victories amid controversy over twins.

Heungkuk Life’s Pink Spiders, a female volleyball player with two sisters Lee Jae-young and Lee Da-young (25), fell into a pitfall with 4 consecutive losses. Although it is currently No. 1 in the league, the difference between 2nd place GS Caltex is only 5 points, so the ranking may change over the remaining 6 games. On the other hand, IBK Industrial Bank, desperate for a win to advance into the spring volleyball game, reduced the difference between the victory points with the third-placed road construction company to one point.

Heungkuk Life Insurance completely defeated IBK with a set score of 0-3 (21:25/10:25/10:25) at the home game of the 2020-2021 Dodram V (V) League held at Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium on the 16th. It was a one-sided match, as the loss of the most points this season (34 points) indicates. In particular, it was even more painful because it was a shut-out defeat by IBK, whose main setter Cho Song-hwa, who transferred to IBK from Heungkuk Life Insurance this season, was missing. IBK met Heungkuk Life Insurance 4 times this season and lost all but won this game for the first time.

From the start of the first set, the difference between double scores and more widened, and the defeat was dark. However, Heungkuk Life Insurance narrowed the gap by accumulating points with the performance of Kim Yeon-kyung (12 points) in a situation where he was driven to 9-21. Although the first set was delivered as 21-25, the atmosphere of Heungkuk Life seemed to come alive. At the beginning of the second set, he showed hope for a while, but Heungkuk Life soon exposed anxiety about receiving and began to be pushed back. The 2nd set receive efficiency was 32% and the attack success rate was only 13.99%. The players couldn’t play well on the court as if they were frozen. Heungkuk Life’s coach Park Mi-hee appeared frustrated several times when the game was not resolved. Heungkuk Life Insurance, who gave the second set, showed a helpless performance in the third set and withdrew from the court in 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Backup players who didn’t perform well

It was not simply the result of the twin sisters missing. The back-up players couldn’t perform their skills properly due to the upbeat team atmosphere. It was not a matter of training or skill, it was a matter of confidence. In particular, Heungkuk Life Insurance Kim Da-sol, who was introduced as a setter on behalf of Lee Da-young, could not properly match the breathing with attackers such as Kim Yeon-kyung. Miyeon Kim, who played an excellent role in the vacancy of foreign striker Lucia, was also stiff, with only 8 points. Bruna, a newly transfused foreign striker, also failed to play its part with only one point.

IBK secured 35 points with a victory that day, alive the hope of spring volleyball. Foreign striker Lazarevah took the lead with 30 points and Kim Joo-hyang backed up with 13 points.

On the day that attracted attention because it was the first game held by Heungkuk Life Insurance after the outbreak of school violence broke out, coach Park Mi-hee apologized for the school violence situation in an interview. Not a place. No one is allowed to enter the professional volleyball team training,” he strongly denied.

On the other hand, in the men’s competition held in Cheonan, Chungnam that day, 1st Korean Air defeated 6th place Hyundai Capital 3-0 (25:20/25:20/25:19) and secured 58 points. KB Insurance Division 2nd place The difference was widened to 8 points.

By Lee Jung-guk, staff reporter [email protected]