'The Volleyball Empress is back.' Attack success rate of 52%, 17 points. 1m 97,1m 91st tall teammates go to win the championship. 3-0 win over the Japanese team
Sep 30, 2024
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Heungkuk Life Insurance won its first match against Japan's Aranmare in the women's Group B preliminary match of the 2024 Tongyeong-Dodram Cup professional volleyball tournament at Tongyeong Gymnasium on the 30th with a complete victory of 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-19).
Heungkuk Life Insurance, which newly selected foreign Apogit Tutku (1m91) as a partner of Kim Yeon-kyung (1m92) to win the championship, and filled the middle blocker gap caused by Lee Ju-ah's transfer to FA with a tall Asian quarter Louis-Ray of 1m97, showed aggressive team colors through various attack routes.
Kim Yeon-koung and Tutku's double shots were threatening. Not only in the avant-garde but also in the rear attack, he showed good attack.
Kim Yeon-kyung scored 17 points with a 52% attack success rate, including two back attacks, and Tutku also added six back attacks to score 18 points. In addition, rookie Jung Yoon-joo added eight points. As the middle blocker line of Kim Soo-ji (4 points) and Louis Lei (5 points) also added to the score, Heungkuk Life Insurance has transformed into a team with various offensive lines in which all the main players attack.
Blocking was powerful as a tall team. Tutck scored four, Kim Yeon-kyung and Louis-Ray two each, and Lee Go-eun one, recording a total of nine blocks.
Early in the first set was Aranmare's pace. Before the game, Heungkuk Life's manager Avon Danja said, `I couldn't know the history of the whole Aranmare. I was worried about playing without knowing the opponent, but the beginning was not good. Short outside heater Kimura at 1m69 and tall Apogit Vissenko at 1m92 lost points in succession due to various attacks.
Setter Lee Go-eun and the strikers also didn't seem to work well together. However, as Kim Yeon-kyung and Tutku's attacks began to explode, they leaned toward Heungkuk Life. At 13-13, Jung Yun-ju's spike, Tutku's back attack, and Aranmare's failed video reading during the rally added one more point to quickly widen the gap to 16-13.
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Heungkuk Life took the lead in the second set from the beginning. Heungkuk Life easily widened the gap with the spike errors of Aranmare strikers, who felt burdened by the high wall of Heungkuk Life, which was added to Tutku and Louis-Ray Kim Yeon-kyung and Kim Soo-ji (1m88). The second set was easily over as Heungkuk Life led 18-11 due to Don Phon's attack error.
However, Aranmare chased Don Phon's attack with Heungkuk Life's mistakes, approaching 17-21, four points. However, Tutck and Jung Yoon-joo made a spike and piled up one point at a time, Tutku blocked Kimura's attack and immediately reached the set point 24-18 and finished with Jung Yoon-joo's spike.
The third set was also Heungkuk Life's pace. Aranmare had no choice but to be conscious of the wall of Heungkuk Life, and in the end, he could not find a solution. Heungkuk Life Insurance, which was also chased by 3 points at 13-10, led 18-11 at once, starting with Kim Yeon-kyung's back attack, Kim Soo-ji's serve ace, Tutku's spike, and Louis-Ray's fastball.
Aranmare worked hard with Vissenko scoring 16 points and Don Phon scoring 12 points, but Heungkuk Life was not an easy opponent.
indyk@sportschosun.com
