Heungkuk Life Insurance ranked first in professional volleyball by defeating Hyundai E&C

Men’s KEPCO won the KB Insurance Awards, which fell behind Kim Jung-ho and Kim Hong-jung.

Heungkuk Life Insurance Team
Heungkuk Life Insurance Team

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Gyeong-yoon = Heungkuk Life, 1st place in the professional volleyball women’s division, defeated Hyundai E&C, which was the lowest, and kept the first place.

Heungkuk Life Insurance won a 3-0 (25-19 25-22 26-24) set score in the home game against Hyundai E&C in the 2020-2021 V-League Women’s Division of Professional Volleyball held at Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium on the 8th.

Heungkuk Life Insurance widened the difference between GS Caltex, second place, and GS Caltex, to 10 points. Hyundai E&C, the lowest ranked, finished the second consecutive win.

Although he won with a set score of 3-0, Heungkuk Life Insurance showed an uneasy appearance on the day’s organizational power.

The first set was brought to 25-19 due to the opposing team’s serve receive problem. Lee Jae-young led the attack with 10 points.

However, Heungkuk Life shook early in the second set. The players’ hands and feet didn’t fit, and they couldn’t play organically, and they were dragged around the 5 point difference.

In a crisis situation, Lee Jae-young made a big success.

Lee Jae-young made 16-18, taking responsibility for four consecutive goals, including a successful open attack from 13-18.

Afterwards, the team tied the score with the open attack of Ji-yoon Ji-yoon and Lee Jae-young’s open attack.

As the atmosphere passed, Hyundai E&C began to collapse.

Heungkuk Life Insurance succeeded in reversing by connecting the successive crimes of the opposing team players with scores.

Kim Yeon-kyung scored a goal with a touch-out attack from 23-22, and ended the set by blocking the attack of Helen Russo, a foreign player on the opposing team.

The third set was also difficult. Heungkuk Life Insurance continued the atmosphere in the 2nd set and ran to 13-7, but allowed the pursuit and tied 20-20.

In 21-21, Ko Ye-rim allowed an open attack and gave a reversal.

The match was followed by Deuce. In a decisive situation, Hyundai E&C collapsed on its own.

As Rousseau’s attack hit the net and fell as it was, Heungkuk Life took the lead by 25-24.

The last attack was resolved by Kim Yeon-kyung. He ended the game by pulling out a touchout with a strong spike.

On this day, Lee Jae-young scored the most points of both teams with 26 points, and Kim Yeon-kyung scored 18 points.

Professional Volleyball Korea Electric Power Team
Professional Volleyball Korea Electric Power Team

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In the men’s competition held at the Suwon Gymnasium, KEPCO, ranked 5th, defeated KB Insurance, which was ranked 1st, with a set score of 3-0 (26-24 25-16 25-20).

KEPCO, who won three consecutive wins, narrowed the gap with Woori Card in fourth place by two points.

On this day, KB Insurance’s left striker Kim Jung-ho was unable to play the game due to toe pain, and Kim Hong-do, the main battle center, was dropped.

Kim Hong-jeong went out of the season after undergoing surgery on the 7th for a finger fracture.

KEPCO did not miss this gap. Blocked the attack route focused on the opposing team, Keita Nomori, and scored 3 points.

KEPCO ended 26-24 with foreign player Kyle Russell blocking Keita’s attack by blocking in the first set 24-24, and then An Yohan again blocking Keita’s attack.

KEPCO, which lightly defeated the 2nd set to 25-16, also showed strength in the 3rd set.

In 19-19, Park Chul-woo succeeded in a diagonal attack, bringing the atmosphere, and in 22-19, Russell scored a consecutive serve ace and split the game.

Russell led the team to victory by scoring 19 points, including 5 serve points. Russell’s attack success rate was 68.42%.

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