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[이데일리 스타in 이석무 기자] GS Caltex won the pro volleyball V-League women’s regular league championship in the 2020-21 season.
Heungkuk Life, who placed 2nd in women’s professional volleyball, lost to KGC Ginseng Corporation with a set score of 0-3 (18-25 15-25 16-25) in a professional volleyball Dodram 2020-21 V-League women’s away game held at the Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon on the 13th. .
Heungkuk Life Insurance fulfilled all of the regular league schedule through the game on this day. The final result was 19-11, with 56 points. On the other hand, GS Caltex is recording 20-9 losses and 58 points with one game left.
With this, GS Caltex has secured the first place regardless of the result of the Daejeon KGC Ginseng Construction Match, the last game of the team season on the 16th. It has been 12 years since the 2008-09 season that GS Caltex won the top spot in the league. In addition, GS Caltex will go directly to the championship match, which will be held in the best of 5 matches. GS Caltex will challenge to win the 3rd championship match following the 2007~08 season and 2013~14 season in the history of the club. Coach Sang-Hyun Cha, who climbed the command tower in the 2017-18 season, is also on the stage of the championship for the first time.
On the other hand, Heungkuk Life Insurance, who had heard the word ‘Uh Woo-heung’ (Heungkuk Life Insurance won anyway), missed the victory it had held. Heungkuk Life, who has endured the national team Lee Jae-young and Da-young sisters with the center of’Volleyball Empress’ Kim Yeon-gyeong, who returned to their home team after 11 years, continued to play solo until the middle of the season despite the injuries of foreign players. However, as various negative factors such as the school violence controversy and disciplinary punishment of sisters Lee Jae-young and Da-young, which suddenly broke out in the team discord that flowed from the beginning of the season, the team shook sharply, and in the end, we had to give up the first place.
Heungkuk Life Insurance could continue his hope of winning the regular league if he beat KGC Ginseng Corporation and scored 3 points on that day. However, with the first and second sets one after another, the possibility of first place completely disappeared. Heungkuk Life Insurance Director Park Mi-hee gave 3 sets from the first set to the second set and allowed Kim Yeon-kyung to rest in the warm-up zone without letting him go to the court.
This was the first time that Heungkuk Life Insurance lost to KGC Ginseng Corporation this season. KGC Ginseng Corporation, which scored 12-17 losses and 36 points as a victory on this day, reduced the difference between the 4th place Korea Expressway Corporation (12-17 and 39 points) to 3. Valentina Diouf, the main player of the KGC Ginseng Corporation, scored 18 points, and the native left, Eui-jeong Ko, split with 16 points, including 3 subaces.
Meanwhile, the postseason match was also confirmed through the match. Heungkuk Life Insurance (2nd place) and IBK IBK IBK (3rd place) will face off in the playoffs (2 wins of 3 matches) from the 20th. The winner of the playoffs will play a championship match against GS Caltex starting on the 26th.